Extortion has reportedly silenced some taxi drivers of Central Village, St Catherine who have been seeped in fear following the recent killing of 29-year-old Christopher 'Tupac' Campbell from what is speculated to being failure to comply with extortionists requests.

Di man dem seriousmi pay up my money, yu know, a taxi operator told The Star, as he explained taxi drivers predicament of having to pay a road tax to heavily armed lawbreakers in that area.

Drivers who have lived in constant fear for months now, told reporters that it is common to fork over from $2,500 to as much as $5,000 weekly to the hoodlums, depending on what relationship they have developed with their oppressors.

Claiming fear for their lives, taxi drivers have not gone to police in the Central Village area with formal complaints, although officers reportedly disclosed having heard of the racket.

Not wanting to be identified as informers, drivers keep on complying with the ruthless extortionists demands because according to one driver, a man nuh tek informa ting light.