The Mavado and Vybz Kartel concert scheduled for this weekend in Barbados
have been officially cancelled.
Prime Minister David Thompson of Barbados made the announcement at
a press conference held yesterday, exactly two days before the event. Thompson
is quoted saying: "That quest to do the right thing by Barbadians prompted
my request for the meeting with the organisers of the proposed show and
I am happy to announce that in deference to the expressed wishes and the
anxieties of a very wide cross-section of Barbadians, that the organisers of
the Mavado/Vybz Kartel show and Youth Forum have agreed to the revamping
of initiatives resulting in the cancellation of this weekend's activities."
The prime minister said that persons were mainly concerned with the idea of
these artistes being portrayed as role models. In-addition to new xxx pictures of
Vybes Kartel hitting the web did not help the situation.