INFORMATION CENTRE Black Roses and Killer Gang Black Rose Gang Trying To Blossom, Queens Cops Say

A new Chinese gang has emerged in the rough-and-tumble underworld of street criminals that prey on the city's Asian community, investigators said. The fledgling outfit, known as the Black Rose, has been linked to two brutal Queens attacks in which two men were beaten with baseball bats and stabbed outside pool halls, Queens investigators said. "We believe they were trying to establish a name for themselves, a reputation for being bad and dirty," Assistant District Attorney Kateri Gasper said. An investigation by the Queens district attorney's office and the police Asian Crime Investigation Team has led to the arrest of nearly a dozen suspected members the youngest 15 years old. "We think we've decimated the Black Rose," said Gasper, who works in the prosecutor's anti-bias/youth gang bureau. A Queens grand jury last week indicted eight suspected members for gang assault in connection with one of the stabbings. One of the eight, plus two others, also had been indicted in the other stabbing. Investigators suspect Black Rose is affiliated with the notorious Ghost Shadows gang that was smashed by authorities in the last several years. The busts are good news for the Asian-American community. The Ghost Shadows and other such gangs historically have focused much of their illicit activities on other Asians, including extorting money from Chinese businesses, running illegal gambling parlors and kidnapping illegal immigrants for ransom, prosecutors said. The first Black Rose stabbing occurred around 2 a.m. on June 21 outside the BBC pool hall on Bell Blvd. in Bayside. About 15 young men armed with baseball bats, knives and a pipe attacked a 20-year-old man. He was stabbed repeatedly and left for dead but survived, investigators said. Cops said the second gang assault took place around 10 p.m. the same day outside Four By Four Billiards on Prince St. in Flushing. A 20-year-

old college student who had resisted a gang member's demand for money was beaten and stabbed in the chest, investigators said. He, too, survived his attack. A lawyerfor one of the defendants, Elbert Tai, 17, of Corona, downplayed the alleged gang affiliations. "At worst, I think this is a group of kids that got together and got into a fight," attorney Larry Kerbin said.

Army takes control as 23 Jamaicans die

By Mark Wilson in Port of Spain, Trinidad
12:01AM BST 11 Jul 2001

THE Jamaican capital, Kingston, was like a ghost town yesterday as soldiers took to the streets to try to stem three days of gunbattles between police and opposition supporters which left at least 23 people dead. As helicopter gunships flew overhead, scattered roadblocks of burning tyres and old cars were set up in suburban and rural areas. Police fired warning shots to clear a crowd from Red Hills Road, just north of Kingston, where a bus was used as a barricade. P J Patterson, the Prime Minister, announced on Monday night that the army and defence force reserve would be patrolling the streets with full police powers. He said: "The government cannot stand idly by and allow criminal elements to hold this country to ransom. "There must be full deployment to prevent anticipated problems and to ensure the restoration of law and order." British travel agents said they were monitoring the situation, but played down a possible threat to tourists. Keith Betton, head of corporate affairs at the Association of British Travel Agents, said: "We are keeping in touch with both tour operators and the Foreign Office. We are watching the situation closely, but holidaymakers can take heart from the fact that this

unrest is not directed at tourists.

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"There was trouble in tourist areas in 1999, but no holidaymakers were affected." The Jamaica Tourist Board in London said the Jamaican government was "securing the troubled areas to ensure the disturbances are contained". About 135,000 Britons visited Jamaica last year, eight per cent more than in 1999. Jim Malcolm, Britain's Deputy High Commissioner to Jamaica, said there was no reason to cancel holiday travel. There have been few roadblocks on the north coast, where most tourists stay behind the perimeters of luxury all-inclusive resorts, virtually untouched by events in the capital. However, Aleithia Barker, a parliamentarian from the ruling People's National Party, said: "Everyone is now using the word 'war'. It is civil war, it is anarchy. All those words are being used." The big gunfights have taken place in the slums of Kingston, 50 miles away on the south coast, which seem like another world. But even in the tourist areas, there has been trouble. A policeman was killed on Monday, as he tried to clear a roadblock east of the main north coast resort Montego Bay. The violence erupted before dawn on Saturday, when the heavilyarmed police Crime Management Unit raided the Tivoli Gardens public housing area in west Kingston in a search for illegal weapons. Residents shot back, starting a gunbattle that continued until nightfall. Tivoli Gardens is a stronghold of the opposition Jamaica Labour Party, traditionally more Right-wing than the PNP. Next to it is Trench Town, the late singer Bob Marley's home and a PNP stronghold. Jamaica has a history of politically-related gang violence, going back to the 1970s. Both political parties have urban "garrison constituencies" where there are rich pickings from protection rackets, which fleece city businesses, and from international

cocaine trafficking. The current wave of violence started on April 18, when Willie "Haggart" Moore, leader of the Black Roses gang, was shot dead. Conspiracy theories abound. Some say the gangs are just fighting for turf. The JLP says its strongholds are being targeted by the police. Ralston Smith, communications adviser to Mr Patterson, said the violence was "orchestrated by the JLP", which wants to force an election. The opposition is 16 points ahead in opinion polls. Constitutionally, elections need not be held until the end of 2002. No Jamaican wants 18 months of rising violence. There have been more than 500 murders this year, 60 more than in the first half of 2000. But the Prime Minister says he will not be stampeded into an early poll. The JLP leader, Eddie Seaga, 71, has represented Tivoli Gardens in parliament since 1962, when it was a rubbish dump with a sordid collection of huts. He provided decent housing for its people in 1970, earning their fierce loyalty in return. Mr Seaga said yesterday he would talk to the government about the violence, reversing an earlier position. He toured Tivoli Gardens with members of the well-respected Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, which hopes to broker a deal.

Black Rose

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A notorious gang in the Philippines which is situated in Antipolo City, Rizal province... The city is not too far from Manila..It is relatively close. Black Rose members are known as gangsters that are true Locs and they always wear the color black. Color representation is not very common in the Philippines but the black that they wear is to symbolize their diversity that makes them different from other gangs or tribes.

The Black Rose gang in AC, Philppines is the sister tribe of the well known gang called Bulabog. The Black Rose gangsters are notorious to be very tough and hard to beat. The Black Rose gang has no such incidents that their territory or their members ever being converted by defeat into another opposing gang. The moto of a BRG member when a rival is caught, is "join us or die"!! The BRG members are known throughout the city of Antipolo, they well known to reek havoc amongst Dayos (which means outsiders) that come into their Barrio (Saginggan, Sumulong Highway). Hoy pre wag mo syang kakalabanin, Black Rose yan eh!! (Hey man dont try to fight him, he's Black Rose!!)