Guyana bans music of no-show Jamaican singer

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The state-owned radio network in Guyana says a Jamaican dance-hall singer has been banned from the airwaves of the South American country because of obscene lyrics.
National Communications Network spokesman Martin Goolsarran says the music of Vybz Kartel was banned because it brings "nothing positive" to the entertainment industry. He said Wednesday that the decision came after a week of internal debate and said they are reviewing the lyrics of other musicians and could ban them as well.
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This is the first time that the government has taken such action against a specific artist. Vybz Kartel angered local music promoters and the Tourism Ministry last month when he failed to show up at a government-supported summer music festival.


Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/enter...#ixzz1YjNqFrDA

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it look like a only JAMAICA this man can tour now DWL

[Historian]

Will This Lead Be Followed?

This decision by the Guyanese government makes me now feel that is still hope for the Guyanese people as they struggle to improve their badly tarnished society! A terribly managed economy (since the socialist era of Forbes Burnham) and the always simmering tensions between the East Indian majority and the blacks have combined to create a not very stable socio-economic and political environment in that English-speaking South American nation.

This move also appears to validate (at least for now) my suggestion, made here about two years or so ago, that the doors of regional countries will be gradually closed to Jamaican dancehall acts as time passes. Mavado was lucky that the Bharrat Jagdeo government lifted his temporary ban.

The question, though, is this: As one of the most influential Caricom states, will this lead by Guyana in banning dancehall acts (the ones they see as being problematic) be followed by other Caricom partners?

By the way, the Jamaica Observer headline is slightly misleading when taken in the context of the lead and follow-up paragraphs.

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when things are forced under ground u know what usually happens

I don't know if they can BAN him off the internet down thr

he just gonna get BIGGER

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Its all about CONTROL....give the people what they want....