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Kartel’s Klub in Kingston is no more
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011, asylum, club, club riddim, june, kartel, the building
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L-R Corey Todd - business partner to Kartel and on the right is the Govt information minister Daryl Vaz
I was talking to a friend today who was telling me about Kartel’s club in New Kingston called “The Building” and how he’s got his fingers in all these pies – well, it turns out that he’s been cut out.
After disagreements with his business partner, Corey Todd after alleged threats to Todd’s life, the club was closed for a couple of weeks and is reopening on July 1st. It will be changing its name to Club Riddim without Kartel. Read more and line ups here
I found this photo of Kartel with the govt Information Minister Daryl Vaz which seems pretty odd to me.
So what are people thinking about kartel nowadays? Everyone i talk to is saying how he’s losing his way and casting Jamaica in his own freaky image.
Certainly, losing his business partner would not be a great move in building the Gaza Empire.
And this shocking statement by Todd is really signalling where Kartel is at nowadays. In it Todd is reported to say that if anything happens to me, then you know where to look.
It adds to the rumours of violence circulating around the dancehall star. This is such a shame as he used to be lovely.
Here is Corey Todd talking about the end of this business relationship.
10 years is a long time for Buju
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Comments (1) For an internationally renowned singer and reggae star, more used to partying and concerts and drugs, 10 years is indeed a long time for Buju Banton to spend in a Florida jail. But he’s reported to have took the news calmly and he was lucky in a way as the judge threw out an extra gun charge. So it could have been worse. He said in a statement, “The days that lie ahead are filled with despair, but I have courage and grace and I’m hopeful, and that is sufficient to carry me through, the man is not dead. Don’t call him a ghost.”
Police and guns in a club – Bounty Killer’s b’day party
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011, birthday, jamaica, june, killer, kingston, mavado. bounty, quad
Leave a Comment It happened at the Quad nightclub in new Kingston on Bounty Killer’s b’day. As Mavado arrives with his entourage, there’s a scuffle and armed police shoot his friend, who later dies in hospital. All in the presence of TV cameras.
All I have to add is did the police really deem it necessary to have a presence at this event? I think the club security would have been a better idea.
This is Mavado’s answer to the incident. He says the gun was “popped” with no provocation.
Coke Court date set
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Comments (3) The trial of Christopher Dudus Coke will begin on September 12th 2011.
He’s been awaiting a date since he was arrested in June 2010 and then extradited to the US on drug and gun charges.
The main thing going on before that date is the motion filed by Dudus lawyers to throw out wiretap evidence, used in the extradition order against him. That would be pretty crucial in the case – his lawyers argue that it contravened Jamaican law to hand it over to the Americans.
But as Coke continues to be holed up inside a cell in the US, how are things on the outside in Tivoli Gardens. West Kingston?
The govt say they are dealing with crime with an ‘iron fist’ reporting 700 fewer murders over the last year. The police also say they are making significant inroads in efforts to eradicate gangs, dismantling 50 per cent of the 57 targeted since the New Year. Is it leading to safer streets and will it last I wonder?
