DING DONG BARRED FROM TRINIDAD

• Deejay, dancer said to be a threat to Trinidadian society

IT seems to be a recurring theme: Jamaican artiste barred from entering Caribbean territory. This time the artiste is deejay and dancer Ding Dong, and the Caribbean island is Trinidad.
Ding Dong, who was scheduled to perform at an event in the twin-island republic on Saturday, did not get very far, as on reaching the Piarco International Airport in Port-of-Spain, he was informed that he would not be allowed to enter the country.
It is alleged that the artiste has been placed on a list of Jamaican artistes who have been banned from performing in Trinidad & Tobago. One Chat! source said these artistes, including Ding Dong, have been deemed a threat to Trinidadian society and therefore cannot be allowed into the country.
Last night, Chat! caught up with the artiste, who was still bewildered by the actions of the Trinidadian authorities. “Fi tell you de truth me can’t even explain wha’ go down a Trinidad... mi can’t tell you,” was all Ding Dong could say.

Source: Chat!! Newspaper




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CHAT! 13 QUESTIONS FOR………….YANKEE B

Christian Souljah, Yankee B is getting ready to release his latest CD, a gospel-enriched offering that he says has something for everybody.
Yankee B, who hails from the Waterhouse community, teamed up with some of his old reggae crew, Shelly Thunder and Sweet Roze to create the label Christlike Records. Their first project was compilation awarded Caribbean Gospel Rappers CD for the Year.
The team went on tour performing live at shows in The Bahamas, Canada, and several hot spots in the US. Yankee B is also well known in places like Florida, Washington and NYC.

1. Ques. Complete the following: I am a…………
Ans. man of God

2. Ques. Who has been your inspiration?
Ans. God

3. Ques. Tell us one thing about you that people would be surprise to know.
Ans. I love to watch every sport

4. Ques. How would spend US$25m?
Ans. First of all, I would make sure all the members of my family are okay and then I would set up a foundation with the sole purpose of helping out all the single mothers.

5. Ques. Looking back, is there anything you would do differently?
Ans. Yes. I would have all my kids with one woman -Kesha

6. Ques. Describe your perfect date.
Ans. Well, I would start out by going to watch a basketball game and then come home to a big steam fish

7. Ques. What’s your favorite comic strip/cartoon character?
Ans. The Jettsons

8. Ques. What's the best thing about marriage?
Ans. Being totally committed to one person and sharing your dream

9. Ques. What’s the best thing you have ever done for somebody without being asked?
Ans. Cook for my wife

10. Ques. Cornmeal pudding or black forest cake?
Ans. Cornmeal pudding.

11. Ques. What gets under your skin?
Ans. My kids not being clean

12. Ques. How do you relieve stress?
Ans. Pray

13. Ques. Which family member is likely to call you at 2:00am?
Ans. My Mother and my wife when I am out of town

KARTEL STARS IN PORN MOVIE?

Is this yet another ploy by embattled deejay Vybz Kartel to gain even more media spotlight, or is it just his way of spending time as contemplating ever-growing list of countries which have imposed a ban on him?
That’s the question being asked following a message allegedly sent out by the ‘Teacha’ via BlackBerry messenger last night last night: “Vybz Kartel has a porn movie coming out called Beg You A @#$%. Go to (name of the website for a ‘R’ rated trailer.”
Recipients are directed to Kartel’s very own YouTube channel where one can see a teaser of the upcoming release. The ‘teaser’, which is not a not-for-the-faint-hearted music video for the track, Turn ‘N’ Whine, featuring a fully-clothed Kartel and a scantily-dressed, constantly-gyrating video vixen. The entire 2:49-presentation is shot a bedroom, which seems to be the same room in which the recently-released sexually explicit photos of Kartel himself were shot. The room was also said to be the scene where former Gaza Princess, Lisa Hype shot her infamous picture where she was engaged in oral sex.
On the same YouTube Channel there is another in which Kartel makes bo apology for the release of the same explicit photos. “Some people see mi pon de Internet and nuh like picture dem….some bwoy weh from dem born nuh gyal neva (@#$ dem *&#$ yet. But the gyal weh dem a) @#$ a my *&#$ she a (@#$, and mi friend dem also….so all the haters dem weh nuh like it star, you know wah fi do,” he states while a young, shy browning who is by his side, giggles with delight.
Reports are that one scene in the porn movie clearly shows the Teacha having intercourse with two girls.
But, should fans of Vybz Kartel be surprised?
Actually, the deejay had posted the following on Twitter at the time when the explicit oral sex photos of him and another video vixen emerged: “Why should these photos cause such chaos when everyone an dem mumma know that Vybz Kartel is the 2 Live Luke of Dancehall. Haven’t they been listen my lyrics all these years?”
SOURCE: CHAT NEWSPAPER

COPS RUN IN ON GAZA STUDIO

• Several Gaza men taken in

The Havendale studio complex operated by self-proclaimed Gaza president, Vybz Kartel was the scene of intense activity Thursday as police unexpectedly swooped down and cordoned off the area.
The cops, who arrived in trucks and cars, rounded up a number of men, including Portmore Empire young act, Popcaan. Vybz Kartel, however although he reportedly at the Kirk Avenue facility – also known as Gaza studio – at the time of the raid, was not numbered among the detainees.
“Is about 3:00 pm a portion of police run in, but the Gaza studio never populated as it usually is. Is like some man did expect say some things did a go gwaan so them just tek weh themselves,” a source told Chat!
Persons theorize that the cops’ presence at the studio was somehow related to a shooting, which took place outside the Big Yard on mannings hill road on Tuesday evening in which one man was murdered.
Early reports had indicated that Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer had also been held for questioning, but it was later revealed that this was not so.
Popcaan had this week releases a song bashing former Empire member, Blak Ryno and calling him a “sell-out”.
Ryno, since announcing his departure from the Portmore Empire has had his house in Waterford, St. Catherine shot up and an apartment, which he rented on Winchester Road in the Corporate Area, was stoned and subsequently firebombed in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The deejay, whose given name is Romane Anderson was not home at the time of the blaze.
Earlier this week, a police source told Chat! that Kartel was being investigated based on some of the reports coming out of the Portmore Empire. Chat! was unable to ascertain whether or not Thursday’s raid on Gaza studio was related to this investigation.


SOURCE: WEEK EN’CHAT NEWS PAPER

GAZA KIM EXITING THE PORTMORE EMPIRE

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DRAG QUEEN STIRS EXCITEMENT IN MAY PEN

A male cross-dresser (photographed here) who police said was caught in a compromising position in a car with another man early Friday morning, created a lot of chatter in May Pen yesterday as news of the incident spread throughout that town.
The police say they noticed the two involved in a dispute in a Toyota Mark II motorcar parked at a lonely spot near a petrol station along Manchester Avenue.
The police took both persons to the May Pen Police Station where it was discovered that the 'woman' was actually a man dressed in drag.
Police say they suspect that the cross-dresser is a prostitute and had sought to sell his wares to the unsuspecting male customer, who was riding a bicycle on Manchester Avenue when he was approached by the prostitute.
The man was reportedly beside himself with rage upon discovering that he was intimately involved with a man and a heated argument developed.
His suspicions were confirmed when the police inspected a driver's license and voter's ID belonging to the suspected prostitute and discovered that he was in fact a man who hailed from a Gregory Park, St Catherine address.
As news spread like wildfire throughout the town, a large crowd converged on the station to catch a glimpse of the drag queen who was clad in a tight-fitting blouse, jeans shorts, high heeled shoes, loop earrings and a wig.

The cross-dresser sported false eyelashes and neatly shaven eyebrows.
The police say they admonished and discharged both men.
Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com

ENTERTAINMENT GOSSIP FROM BIG CHAT!

POOR RISTO BENJI

You know a just di odda day we mind run pon Risto Benji and did a wonda a whey him up to. But just tru we know sey nuff time yuh nuh si di artiste dem a Jamaica but dem a tour dung di whole world, we just assume a dat him a duh. People, unno can imagine how wi shock when wi hear sey police arrest Benjie fi robbery wid aggravation. No sah, we still a listen out fi hear Risto side a di story, because everybody know sey Risto Benji a big artiste and him is a bigga Ras and Rasta nuh mix up wid certain tings. In a di meantime, we a beg smaddy, please go and bail him. And, Risto, give we a small check when you come a road, cause we want di full hundred.

LOOSHIE GET A SOLID MESSAGE

We love how di Messenjah a move. Him a tek him career serious and a deal wid di ting proper. People a say di iron pipe lick more sense inna him head and mek him start reason pon a higher level. Cause, of a truth, when you life flash before you eye, people always have a transformation. Solid fi really big up Freckles, cause Looshie get the message ... SOLID.

SERRANI NEW VIDEO LAME

Di new video fi No Games get a D-. A it haffi get worst video fi 2009, cause we know say no more video nah mek fi come test it. How Serani dem fi sign off pon dat deh fool-fool sinting deh? Whoever do dat fi get fired. And people a nuh eediat, cause di comment dem wha deh pon youtube nuh pretty at all. No storyline, no concept, fake background, King Kong a hold girl inna him palm. Hear some a di comment dem: “Who directed this terrible video?” “Luv di song....video is poor i mean very poor what about the real yard vibz ????.” “Stupid video...............” “A wa dis.fi a song wey a mash up the worl a so di video look.daaaaaaaaaaam.” “Lame artiste, lame song and even lamer video.” “This is one of my favourite songs for 08/09 and I must say I am extremely disappointed in the video! This song is way to exquisite for such a poor video.”


WHAT’S UP WID JPS

But a wha really a gwaan wid di Jamaica Public Service. Just di odda day dem get increase and now wi hear sey dem send confidential request to Office of Utility Regulation (OUR) fi nex one. Wi waan fi know one ting when food price hit di roof, when hurricane lick, when people lose dem wuck, who poor people can call pon fi help. Wi nuh just haffi grit wi teeth and try fi figure out a way fi stay wid wi head above di waters. So how come every time di dollars gone up, or some disaster or anodda JPS want sen on increase in rates pon fi help cushion dem. A time fi OUR start act out dem name and tink about OUR needs instead a di utility company dem.


WHO TEACH DI POLICE DEM DA WORD YAH?

From di odda day every single police release wi get a pure ‘sleuth’, ‘sleuth’ wi a read bout. It come een like sey dem just learn deh one dey and like it. Wi a ask di English professor who teach dem da word yah fi teach dem some new one whey mean di same ting as sleuth or else wi affi slew ‘sleuth’.

THREE RAMPING PUSSYCATS IN A BOX

Who sey wi nuh creative? Unno did a watch di count down pon TV wha day yah and when it reach di number one song, Romping Shop, dem couldn’t play it. But what some creative person do was put three puss inna one box and have dem a romp out dem life and a have fun. Di lickle cute puss name Spice, di big man one name Kartel and di next one name BC.
SOURCE: CHAT!

ENTERTAINMENT GOSSIP

LUCIANO MUST GET DI MESSAGE
We hope di Messenjah Luciano a feel better now after dat deh piece a
iron pipe beating whey him get. One ting wi know, him must get dat deh
message loud and clear sey Freckles did a look justice. One long year
a grudge spill over in a dat deh gas station. But a one ting wi vex
bout still, how come Luciano loyal soldiers dem run lef him. Not even
one fi stand up and defend him…no sah, dem deh soldier deh waan go
back a boot camp. But anex ting…people a ask a how de Messenjah love
gas station so?


THE BC PEOPLE TEK WAY REGGAE MONTH HYPE
What a way di BC people dem come in wid dem daggering ban and tek way
all a di lickle hype wha did puddong fi Reggae Month. It look like a
Cordell Green and Missa Dunn shoulda get Artistes a di Month fi
February, cause everytime we look a just dem we see all ova di place —
Reggae Month couldn’t even get in a lickle word sideways,
just because a di BC people dem. Misters Green and Dunn
and BC (Broadcasting Commission) to di werl!!!!!!


REGGA MONTH NEVA GWAAN
Dis year Reggae Month soft. Laas year everybody did deh pon fire and
did a praise up di a Reggae Month ting. A either di people dem who dem
a put inna some position nuh right fi di job, or no money nuh deh, but
sinting neva right. Everyting was secret — di free show inna New
Kingston Tuesday was a big secret and di awards is a bigger top
secret. And look how dem just dash way di film festival so.
We nah tell no lie, Reggae Month neva nice.


CHURCH PEOPLE FI CHECK DEMSELF
But a really tek di church people dem bout dance fi shut dung. Is hype
dem looking or what? When di crime rate a spiral outta control we nuh
hear dem a mek nuh big speech a call fi national week a prayer and
fasting, but dem quick fi jump pon dancehall bandwagon. If dance fi
lock off, den sidewalk church and prayer meeting fi lock dung to.
We love church people cyaan dun, but dem must talk wid sense.
Dem know how much people send dem pickney go school outta street dance selling
and how much a dat deh same money go back inna fi dem owna coffer..
SOURCE: CHAT!

Luciano’s was beating with an iron pipe

BY: Yasmine Peru

Studio engineer and promoter, Freckles, says he administered an iron pipe beating to righteous singer, Luciano, out of a sense of justice and not anger.
“I just needed to regain my dignity … and I did,” the diminutive, dreadlocked father of one told Chat!.
According to Freckles, he and Luciano — the singer known for his pious messages of love and forgiveness — had a dispute from May of last year over money which he says was owed to him by the singer for work done during a tour of Australia. Despite several attempts to collect all that was due to him, resolve the matter and heal the breach, this never happened. And, to add insult to injury, Freckles says he was “beaten to a pulp” by Luciano and some of his followers at Luciano’s office last year.
He recalled that he was on his way to the airport to catch a flight to Washington to pick up visas for persons going on a US tour when he got a call from Luciano.
“He asked me to meet him at his office and I went. He hugged and kissed me as brethren and then called his manager, who knew about all that had happened in Australia. The manager took the hot seat and admitted that he was the one who encouraged me to insist on getting all my money from Looshie.”
Freckles further states that he had “lined up a whole heap of things for Looshie” while on the tour, thus helping the singer to earn extra money. “I got him dub plate work and even wrote a song for him and another for Bob Andy. Looshie was supposed to pay me 30% as commission, but after I collected the money and handed it over to him, he then told me that the tour didn’t work out so well and he wanted me to take less than 30%. I agreed.”
Freckles said he told Luciano’s manager what had transpired, and the manager was adamant that Luciano should honour his agreement with Freckles.
“When the manager told Looshie that he told me to make sure to get all my money because what he was asking in principle was wrong, Looshie get all upset and shouted ‘a greedy him greedy’. At that point, I told him that I had a plane to catch and I was leaving. On my way out, one of his men chucked me and I chucked him back. Then Looshie chuck pon me … tear off mi turban. All couple of the locks from outta me beard dem tear out,” Freckles told Chat! as he recalled his beating.
He says he was chopped in the back and sustained serious injury to one of his fingers, which had the tendon severed. An operation has so far run him over $700,000 and he says he is now doing physiotheraphy twice weekly.
“I am a single parent who is totally responsible for my daughter. She goes everywhere with me,” he explained, adding that he lost a portion of money in Cash Plus, which set him back tremendously. He says he has never asked Luciano for money towards his medical expenses, but a singer who knew the story checked Luciano for assistance for him, but he was reportedly told that “the boy deserve the flogging”.
Freckles said he had put the incident out of his mind and was trying to get on with life. But then, fate stepped in. He was at the studio doing some work and a guitarist who happen to have witnessed the beating was there and brought up the story. “Everything came back to me and fire went through me,” he said honestly. “Five minutes later I left the studio and driving past the gas station … you know who I see?”
None other than the man to whom Freckles says his followers refer to as “god”. “When they were beating me, all I can remember them saying was ‘don’t let him touch god’.”
It was a triumvirate of a different kind — time, place and passion.
Freckles says he calmly drove into the gas station, parked his vehicle and walked towards Looshie and his people. “On my way I saw a piece of iron pipe and I took it up. A man turn round and hail me and all I know is that I reach up to Looshie and start put it on. Every man scatter … run way leave him and him all pass out. Then Mr Andy come to me and say ‘Freckles stop’.” So he stopped; the men reportedly threw water on the singer, enabling him to regain consciousness and then took him to the doctor.
“I was not the one to run to the media. Despite all Looshie did, I never tried to smear his character. I am a young yute trying to make life with my daughter and they didn’t show me any justice, peace or love,” he declared.
Efforts to contact Luciano proved futile.
SOURCE: CHAT!

NO DUTTY MOUTH DJ WANTED

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Uptown daggering must go, too, prophet says

By Donna Hussey-Whyte

Self-proclaimed, placard-bearing prophet, Tychicus, who went on an islandwide crusade proclaiming the evils of daggering, is today rejoicing that his effort was not in vain. The praising the Broadcasting Commission for following his lead and banning all songs that use the words daggering.
“Daggering gone, carnival must go too,” Tychicus told Chat! Yesterday. “Everything is now falling into line — just like Barack. It is now the dispensation of time,” he said.
“I am glad to see what the Broadcasting Commission has done, but it makes no sense they leave it there. You have two romping shops — one uptown and one downtown. It makes no sense you remove downtown and leave uptown. So they need to ban carnival also. Junior Reid prophecy come true, that ‘babylon release the chain but using their brain’.”
This, he explained is evident, as authorities have seen it fit to ban daggering which originated in the ghetto but saw nothing wrong with carnival which is for the ‘uptowners’. Nor do they see anything wrong with songs like ‘bend over, bend over’ and other calypso tunes which carry similar messages and has the same impact as daggering.
Tychicus said not only is he on a mission to rid the nation of carnival now, but to also introduce to persons good clean dance moves.
“I want to introduce to Jamaica face-to-face dancing, not backways. God is a God who always moves forward not backwards, so even in that, you know that something is wrong.” This, he said as he pulled out another placard bearing the words, ‘Learn to dance, Tychicus taking clean dancing to the world’.
He has three dances which he wishes the nation to move to.
• ‘Customer care’ — “In this dance you are taking care of your partner. You are not dancing with her in vengeance as men do when they are daggering. It’s a dance where you face your partner and look out for her.”
• ‘Front liner’ — This dance he explained is the opposite of ‘back it up’, where you are directly facing your partner, looking in each others face and dancing together.
• ‘Ten speed blender’ — “You rotate your body like a blender and not the hard slams of daggering,” Tychicus said. “I want people to know that they can dance and have fun without doing the evil dances.”
This one he said, he planned on entering into the 2009 JCDC festival.
While displaying his moves, Tychicus said he never went to school to learn how to dance but was taught by the Almighty himself.
“He has taught me to dance to positive songs. The Christian fraternity criticises me a lot for going into the dancehall, but what is inside of you is what will come out. If you are holy, then holiness will come out in your dancing, and if you are filthy, filthiness will come out. The bible said let the wheat and tares grow together until the day of harvest. I go into the dancehall to change the way people dance.”
And he said, people are changing.
“The younger people are gravitating towards what I am doing and the new dance. But the older folks put up a resistance. What I am doing is different from what they are used to and so people are moving towards it,” he said.
SOURCE CHAT!

MAN BITES MAN LIP OFF IN SPANISH TOWN

BY T K WHYTE

•BRAWL LEAVES ST CATHERINE RESIDENT NURSING HIS LIP

A brawl between two men in the old capital, Spanish town left one with less lip than he started out with, and both men facing charges.
The 27 –year –old St Catherine resident, who bite off a piece of another man's lip during a fight, ended up in jail on a charge of unlawful wounding while his victim, a 46-year-old operator also, of content, has been charged with assault occasioning bodily harm.
Both accused men, who pleaded not guilty when they appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, had their $30,000 bail extended, and are scheduled to return to court on May 18, when the matter will again come up for mention.
Police told the court that their investigation reveal that the older man had borrowed a fish gun from the other some time ago. However allegations are that on January 17, at about 11:30 am, the younger man accused the other of borrowing the fish gun to shoot him.
A fight developed between them and the knife was brought into play, which left the younger man nursing a wound to the hand. Allegations are that both men continued to fight and during the ensuing struggle the younger man grabbed hold of the other's lips with his teeth and bit off a piece. Police reports further indicate that the victim also received bite on his face, finger and forearm. Both men were treated at hospital injuries and after further investigations police arrested and charge the younger man for unlawful wounding and an his co-accused with assault occasioning bodily harm.
SOURCE CHAT!

DON'T DISS GOD'S PROPHET!!

Kartel, Mavado argument leaves man injured

A man is nursing stab wounds in hospital and another is on the run, following an altercation Tuesday over the outcome of a clash between dancehall artistes Vybz Kartel and Mavado at the popular concert Sting.
The men — who are both from Mannings Hill Road in St Andrew — were reportedly putting up banners of their favourite artistes at their respective “corners” Tuesday afternoon, when they started arguing about the outcome of the clash between the two DJs.
The argument further developed into a fight, during which a knife was used to stab one of them in the abdomen and the face, said Deputy Superintendent Altermoth ‘Parra’ Campbell, crime boss at the Constant Spring Police Station.
The injured man, who Campbell said was in his twenties, was taken to the University Hospital of the West Indies where he was admitted in serious condition.
“This just shows how people find themselves in trouble for foolishness,” Campbell told the Observer Wednesday.
“The sad part about it is that everybody knows each other; all of them used to live at a section called ‘Hungry Road’ before some of them moved to another section called ‘Big Yard’ on the same stretch,” he said. “They used to share the same space together and look now, over some foolishness people end up in hospital.”
Campbell said that since the incident, the police have removed the banners and have called a meeting with residents of the communities in an effort to prevent reprisal attacks.
“We had to go down there and tear down all of the banners, ‘cause they are causing problems and anything that is causing problems we have to get rid of,” said Campbell.
“We are confident though that there will not be any reprisals for the incident. We met with residents of the communities and they all agreed that they (the men) were arguing over foolishness and that it should stop. They have agreed to let us handle the incident,” the deputy superintendent added.— Corey Robinson.
Source WEEKEN CHAT!NEWSPAPER