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'TAX' ON EVERY LANE
Taxi operators plying the Half-Way Tree to Price Rite route have been facing hell in the form of extortion.
They are forced to pay a total of $1,200 per day in 'taxes' to every lane along Red Hills Road.
STAR Investigations revealed that the men are sometimes beaten if they fail to pay over the money.
"To how the man dem dangerous, one all gimme a thump over mi eye and mi get six stitches inna it, just because mi nuh pay them extortion money," said one taxi operator. "We a work up deh but we a go through a hard state. Extortionists line out all a the road, dem up deh every day and waan money, every car haffi pay $200 and the bus dem haffi pay $400. You see because a every lane di man dem deh all six set a man we haffi a pay to."
http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/...ews/news1.html
Taxi operators plying the Half-Way Tree to Price Rite route have been facing hell in the form of extortion.
They are forced to pay a total of $1,200 per day in 'taxes' to every lane along Red Hills Road.
STAR Investigations revealed that the men are sometimes beaten if they fail to pay over the money.
"To how the man dem dangerous, one all gimme a thump over mi eye and mi get six stitches inna it, just because mi nuh pay them extortion money," said one taxi operator. "We a work up deh but we a go through a hard state. Extortionists line out all a the road, dem up deh every day and waan money, every car haffi pay $200 and the bus dem haffi pay $400. You see because a every lane di man dem deh all six set a man we haffi a pay to."
http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/...ews/news1.html
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