Created Famous - New Club Aims For Dancehall Market

[Mosiah]

Created Famous - New Club Aims For Dancehall Market
Published: Sunday | May 26, 2013 0 Comments

The Famous Nightclub, Portmore, St Catherine, when it was opened two Fridays ago.-Contributed photos
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Davina Henry, Gleaner Writer

Many nightclubs have opened in Jamaica and become famous, encapsulating a particular era in entertainment. However, the latest addition to the business of indoor music in the country has stated its intention to be famous before opening its doors.

It is, after all, named the Famous Nightclub, on Port Henderson Road, Portmore, St Catherine. And there are no doubts about the era in music it intends to represent.

"We want it to be the Mecca of dancehall. We have persons coming to get the true dancehall experience. We will be catering to the dancehall fraternity. On any given night, you will see a cameo performance from top artistes in the entertainment industry," stated the club's marketing director, Kevin Bourke.

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[Bricktop]

$1000 entrance fee...wish them luck...they already losing on Fiction & UBT&R...

[Karl]

How safe will we be?
How likely armed invasion - by lone wolf gunman or more than one gunman (gun-woman)?

...after all Maudib and others claim guns must be everywhere...right????

[Mosiah]

Wha dat have to do wid di nightclub?

Gunman ever invade nightclub a Jamaica yet? No bodda bring dung yuh goatmouth pon di ting!

[Islandman]

Gunman won't invade nightclub a JA because them already inna the nightclub, LOL.

[Karl]

...plus there has been gunfights in and around nightclubs and businesses in that area.

[Hortical]

Wish the new club good luck, but the area has had problems in the past. How is the area now?

10/17/2009
Mayor of Portmore Keith Hinds said the days of prostitutes soliciting sex on the Port Henderson Road, popularly called 'Back Road', will soon come to an end.

Mayor Hinds made the disclosure on the heels of a joint police-military operation at the busy entertainment hub in the wee hours of last Saturday morning, where 39 women, believed to be prostitutes, and 33 men were arrested.

man shot dead
One man was fatally shot and a .38 revolver seized during the operation.
Mayor Hinds said the Portmore Municipal Council is in dialogue with Cannock Chase, a countryside district, located in Staffordshire, England, where a partnership has been kindled and a way forward brokered for 'Back Road' to offer clean entertainment for patrons.
"I will support any initiative by the police to clean up Port Henderson Road, my dream is for that area to become a tourism product," Mayor Hinds said, adding that talks with the Tourism Product Development Company Limited have been fruitful.

"I want to put in sleeping policemen on the thoroughfare and reduce traffic speed to 10-15 miles per hour. I want that stretch of roadway to be an official hip strip, where friends and families can have a drink and walk the streets without being harassed by women loitering the roads half naked. We want craftsmen and artists to set up shops in that area so we can lure tourists to Portmore. Clubs and businesses will have to regularise their operations," the mayor warned.

The Portmore police, in the meantime, said they will continue to monitor the area, which over time has been overwhelmed by commercial sex workers and wanted men from not only Portmore but from the Corporate Area and other parts of Jamaica.
There have been a string of incidences that plagued the area. In January 2007, guest houses and hotels were raided by police and 17 alleged commercial sex workers were arrested.

Back Road was popular for the British Link-up show, put on by Yvonne 'Lena British' Reid at La Roose nightclub, but that was discontinued at that location after two shooting incidents. The club's name was changed by the proprietors to Livewire Sports Bar and Grill, but that did not change the bloody trail that seems to follow the Back Road premises.
Four men, including two brothers, were killed and another man injured at the nightclub last July.
The dead included Ricardo 'Bully' Thomas, who was the proprietor of La Roose, his brother Kirk, both of Charlemont Drive, David Wisdom of Lindale Avenue and Andrew Walker, also called 'Mampy Zeeks', of August Town, all in St Andrew.

gunfight
In March, 41-year-old Clifton Reid was shot dead and six others, including a woman, shot and injured during a gunfight at a British Link Up 'unity' dance at the same venue. Reid was a member of the Lincoln Road-based Black Roses Crew.

In 2003, police shot five persons at a dance at the same venue. Police insisted that they went to enforce the Noise Abatement Act, but the patrons refuted the police's claim, stating that the officers attempted to extort money from the sound operators. The BSI was drawn into the controversy.

Also on that strip in April 2007, police were accused of beating Dr Jepthah Ford, proprietor of the Fun Citi property, otherwise called Port Henderson Beach. He intervened in a dispute between his sisterand police officers and was reportedly beaten and had to seek medical attention.

[Bricktop]

There is no safety issue...stop it please...

[Exile]

Always safety issues in Jamaica from Negril to Pt Morant....

[Bricktop]

You guys make it sound like Iraq...why because the club is located in Portmore yuh think of safety? The only safety issues are when there is not enough parking and the break into cars on the road...that happens in Kingston & St Andrew...

[Exile]

No boss..not like Iraq...no hidden IED's - but there's always some idiot trying to test or prove his name...including the car park hustlers....and not only in Portmore...

[Exile]

Chart Of The Week – Murder By Parish January To April 2013

Posted on May 17, 2013 by diGJamaica Research — No Comments ↓

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Source: Jamaica Constabulary Force

The Chart of the Week comes from diGJamaica’s blog post visualizing the JCF’s crime statistics for the January to April period. As per the original blog posting:
“Through April 2013, murders have decreased by 1.4% to 344. Jamaica still averages just under 3 (2.87 to be more exact) murders per day. While we are happy for the improvement over 2012, this figure is 9 more than the 335 recorded through the same period in 2011. As expected, the majority of murders were concentrated in the main population centres of Kingston, St. Andrew, St. Catherine and St. James. Interestingly and unfortunately, Trelawny almost has as many murders this year in 4 months (13) as it did in all of 2012 (14). St. Mary is also in Trelawny’s category with 14 murders through 4 months while it only had 19 in 2012. Portland is by far the least likeliest place to be murdered in Jamaica.”

[Bricktop]

If that's the case nobody would leave their houses...you can't be serious...this is not La Roose we're talking about here...this a club whose parent company is listed on the junior stock exchange...yuh seedless grape eating bunch are so out of touch and clueless

[Mosiah]

That happens in Toronto! That's the only city I've ever had my car broken into.

[Exile]

Why break in the car when you rob the person at gunpoint? Or just shoot him and tek what yu want?