Uriel Palmer
April 2007
Kingston, Jamaica

Radio Jamaica
(Kingston, Jamaica)
April 11, 2007

Taxi operators protest against the death of a colleague

Scores of taxi operators who ply the Half-Way Tree to Maxfield 
Avenue route withdrew their services on Wednesday morning 
protesting the death of one of their colleagues.
The dead taxi operator has been identified as 45-year-old Uriel 
Palmer of a Kingston address.

Mr. Palmer reportedly succumbed to injuries he sustained during 
an altercation with a group of men more than a week ago.

A taxi operator recounted the events leading up to Mr. Palmer's 
death.

"Last week this taxi man parked at the bottom of Maxfield 
Avenue and some men came up to him and asked him to carry 
them somewhere and he refused and they beat him up and stab 
him in the head," said the taxi man.

"He went to the hospital and they said he must come back for a 
brain scan and when he went back to the hospital he died,"

"This has been going on on Maxfield Avenue for a very long time 
and something has to be done about these men. They are not 
God. It's not them run the country. We are asking who is in 
charge to get involved," he said.

While some of the protesting taxi operators have resumed 
normal duties, a few of their colleagues have vowed not to return 
to work until they have been given adequate police protection on 
the route.

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