For the uninitiated, hanging is a gruesome and revolting act, an ineffaceable indecency that manifests itself in the rope and trapdoor contraption that dispatches men from this mortal coil. In fact, the writer George Orwell noted that there was one aspect of the hanging process that was known and whispered by everybody but never mentioned in print or polite society. He was referring, of course, to the fact that the males had stupendous erections that results from dislocation of the neck,
Continue Reading August 26th, 2008
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Human rights activist Nancy Anderson is also opposed to the idea of capital punishment.
“I am opposed to capital punishment, it doesn’t help, it is not a deterrent. A number of legitimate surveys and studies have proven that. We condemn people who kill and then we turn around and kill them, it is farcical,” Ms. Anderson said.
“The law is that no one should kill anyone.”
Continue Reading August 26th, 2008
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There is something about a dancehall queen that excites lust in the male mind. Middle-class men and women are fascinated by this sort of sub-species of the Jamaican female; you know the type I’m talking about – the two-pound-hair-weave-wearing, three cellphone-toting, loud-talking girl in the blue b-rider with her underwear peeking out at the waistline.
Continue Reading August 26th, 2008
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Several countries have begun to respond to the violent content of dancehall which often celebrates misogyny, prejudice, homophobia and promiscuity, by banning artistes. Most recently, Guyana banned both Bounty Killer and Mavado from coming there to perform. Disc jockeys in Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago and in the Dutch-speaking Suriname have been given ultimatums by station owners not to play songs by Mavado. Deejay Sizzla was arrested in Spain and deported to the United States after gay activists were successful in their lobby to have his visa revoked while Bounty Killer was hounded by gays during his European tour forcing the cancellation of at least three events. Another Bounty Killer show featuring Mavado as a headliner as well, was not allowed to go on by cops in London.
Continue Reading July 6th, 2008
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Members of the clergy in Jamaica believe that they are in the midst of an intense spiritual battle that pits the Bible, that age-old repository of wisdom and God’s teachings, against the gun, a modern-day tool made for the expressed purpose of killing.
This ‘war’ has already triggered several casualties, especially those of Clergymen in recent times.
Continue Reading July 5th, 2008
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The taxi had pulled to a crawl in the peak hour traffic. Brown, seated in the rear of the vehicle, glanced out the window at a woman wearing a tight mini-skirt. He did not hear the roar of the bike behind him. Nor did he see the pillion rider on the bike take careful aim. Nor did he feel much pain when his brains exited his forehead to smear the windshield and the passenger riding in front of him in a jellylike cloud of blood.
Another witness killed. Another case of justice denied. And yet another criminal allowed to waltz away from prison, free to murder again.
Continue Reading July 4th, 2008
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In the last few years, checks with local courts and police blotters suggest that the number of documented cases of passport and visa fraud have increased. There have even been cases where unscrupulous persons have been filing fraudulent employment visa petitions
Continue Reading July 2nd, 2008
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On September 24, 2007, Mavado was forced to cancel concerts in Trinidad and Tobago and other locales when he was robbed after arriving at his hotel in Toronto. Mavado reportedly lost extremely important documents in the robbery. These include his passport, money, other travel documents and a laptop computer. Toronto’s first Black owned Urban Station FLOW 93.5fm advertisements were run offering rewards of up to C$5000, for the return of Mavado’s belongings. Without travel documents, Mavado was refused entry into the US to perform at his Atlanta gig.
Continue Reading June 8th, 2008
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“”I was there holding a vibe for the show and my daughter and her friends went over to Buju Banton. She introduced herself as Junior Reid’s daughter, and Buju said, ‘who Junior Greed?’. My daughter was embarrassed, and she asked me, ‘daddy, what you and Junior Reid have?’. I told her ‘no worry yourself, im no approach me to my face in that way’,” he explained.
Continue Reading June 8th, 2008
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Penthouse producer Donovan Germaine feels that there needs to a move away from the playing of songs with sexually suggestive content and edited expletives on radio.
“There needs to be a greater balance, a lot of good reggae songs never get any recognition or airplay. They never get to radio because dancehall songs with numerous edits and questionable sentiments dominate. I have spoken to all the programme managers about this editing business,” Germaine, the former manager of Buju Banton, said.
Continue Reading April 27th, 2008
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