Caribe Shuttle announces that the Bocas Shuttle route will resumes normal service today, 14 July 2010. The Bocas Shuttle offers transportation to Bocas de Toro, Panama, from the Costa Rica Southern Caribbean communities of Puerto Viejo, Cahuita and Manzanillo, and vice versa. The service resumed it’s 7:00 am service from Costa Rica, 8:00 am service from Panama, and will operate a special 1:00 pm shuttle from Puerto Viejo to help with all the pent-up demand. Both trips went today as smooth as ever and without incident.

Carbe Shuttle suspended the Bocas – Puerto Viejo service  after striking banana workers around Changuinola, Panama, blocked streets and turned violent. Calm was restored a couple days ago after workers called an end to the protests and signed a pact with the Panamanian government.

Other unions representing a minority of workers in several trades met yesterday in Panama City to make a call for a general nation-wide strike and protest. That meeting apparently turned out to be mostly hot air, and nothing happened.

The official end of the strike and the non-events from the meeting in Panama in combination with the general feeling around Bocas and Changuinola that everyone wants to return to normalcy and the peace that has prevailed there for several days led Caribe Shuttle to the decision to resume normal service.

“We feel confident that the border and roads will now remain open and safe” said John Wheatley, founder and General Manager of Caribe Shuttle. “All our associates and friends on the ground in the affected areas feel that the tension has passed, and it seems nobody is interested in returning to the tragedies of last week. We will continue to monitor the situation, and of course, if we feel that tensions are starting to build again, we will cancel our service again. But we don’t foresee that  happening.”

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