Articles Tagged “legal troubles”
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SENTENCED: No Jail Time for Machel Montano, instead fines for him and Kernal
It was the verdict many were waiting on, the verdict that many were even betting, on as Soca superstar Machel Montano was sentenced today for an assault case stemming from an incident outside of the Zen nightclub in Trinidad, over 5 years ago. Well, after a delayed in today’s ruling Magistrate Maureen Baboolal-Gafoor finally gave [...]
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TSTT bMobile severs sponsorship deal with Machel Montano
Majority state-owned TSTT has severed its sponsorship relationship with reigning Soca Monarch and Road March king, Machel Montano. The TSTT board, chaired by former Commissioner of Police Everad Snaggs, met last week and decided to end the telecommunication company’s sponsorship of Montano’s 2013 shows and performances, including his scheduled Soca B Square performance at Woodford [...]
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UPDATE: Bounty Killer freed of gun charge
Dancehall entertainer Bounty Killer and former police constable Calis Bowen were freed on Friday (Dec. 14) of gun charges in the High Court Division of the Gun Court. “It’s a big relief off my head because you know I’ve been through a lot and to have this hanging over my head it was really a [...]
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VIDEO: Busy Signal sits down for first TV interview with OnStage’s Winford Williams
In case you missed it…. Newly released dancehall superstar, Busy Signal, recently sat down with broadcast journalist, Winford Williams of OnStageTV TV, for his first on-air interview since his return. Busy Signal, real name Reanno Gordon, recalls his ordeal over the last 6 months being in a Minnesota prison for absconding bail on a drug [...]
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UPDATE: Machel Montano assault case drags on. Verdict date and more deets inside…
Machel Montano received a warm birthday gift last week, as the decision for his 2007 Zen assault case continues to drag on…. According to the Trinidad Newsday, the 2012 Road March king, Machel Montano, and three other local entertainers have to wait another two weeks to find out, whether or not, a court finds them [...]
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UPDATE: “Jamaican Girls Exposed” Creep Has Bail Extended
Ronald Oates, the 27-year-old alleged mastermind behind the “Jamaican Girls Exposed” website had his $500.000 bail extended when he appeared in yesterday. During the court session no trial date was set as investigators had still not collected all their evidence in the case. The court then ruled that Oates’s bail be extended until November 16. [...]
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UPDATE: No Relief Vybz Kartel in Murder Case – Returns to Court in November…
Vybz Kartel, real name Adidjah Palmer, has been further remanded whilst his friends, Vanessa Sandler, commonly known as Gaza Slim and Andre Henry (Pim Pim) had their bail extended last week. The trio appeared in court on Thursday but the the trial was postponed because of the absence of the presiding judge and the non-disclosure [...]
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NEW MUSIC: Russian and Vybz Kartel – “The Cure (Fi Bad Mind)”
Dancehall producer and deejay Russian has released another collaboration featuring Vybz Kartel titled, The Cure (Fi Bad Mind). The embattled dancehall boss previously team up with Russian on Life Sweet, Look Pon We, Get Gal Anywhere and major hit, Straight Jeans and Fitted. “People always hate on people who are successful. When you are nobody, [...]
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UPDATE: Buju Banton Seeking New Trial
Jailed reggae star Buju Banton wants a new trial in the United States federal court. Last month, the federal appeals court in Atlanta upheld the Jamaican singer’s 2011 conviction on cocaine conspiracy and trafficking charges. The three-judge panel also sided with a Tampa jury’s conviction of Banton on a gun possession charge, which the trial [...]
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Vybz Kartel releases new book: “The Voice of the Jamaican Ghetto”
On Friday, July 6, 2012 Adijah Palmer aka Vybz Kartel released his best body of work, catalogued in his book, The Voice of the Jamaican Ghetto. Sam Cooke’s A Change is Gonna Come best describes Vybz Kartel’s journey thus far – “there been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long but now I [...]
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Deva Bratt gets bail after trying to solicit a threesome!
Deejay Deva Bratt, was offered bail when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court last week. He is charged with indecent assault and assault occasioning bodily harm following an incident on June 1. Allegations are that Deva Bratt tried to solicit a threesome from two women and when they refused he allegedly punched [...]
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VIDEO: On Stage’s Winford Williams interviews dancehall veteran Ninja Man
In case you missed it, veteran dancehall artiste Ninja Man, made an appearance on Jamaica’s On Stage TV with Winford Williams. The artiste who’s presently out on bail for a murder charge and father of 29, spoke on being incarcerated, the state of dancehall music and much more. Watch the video below: RELATED [...]
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Elephant Man Returns To Court To Answer Rape Charge on July…
Oniel Bryan, famously known as dancehall artiste Elephant Man will have to return to court next month to answer sexual assault and rape charges. The deejay’s rape case was put off appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrates court last week. VIDEO: Elephant Man Speaks Out on Rape Case and his 20 Kids by 20 [...]
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UPDATE: Kartel and four co-accused remanded for murder case…AGAIN!
Vybz Kartel and four of his co-accused were remanded when they appeared in the Supreme Court yesterday for the murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams. Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams was allgedly beaten to death in a house in Havendale, St Andrew on August 16, 2011, over the disappearance of two illegal firearms. The police have not found [...]
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LEGAL WOES: Vybz Kartel being sued for $15 Million. Deets inside…
For over two months life has been tough for controversial dancehall star Vybz Kartel. But when it rains….it pours. However, Kartel is surely experiencing a tsunami of legal problems! The troubled dancehall is now being sued for $15 million for failing to show up at a scheduled appearance in 2009. Kartel has been ordered by [...]
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TODAY: Reggae Veteran Frankie Paul to appear In Jamaica Court for Assault.
Veteran reggae singer Frankie Paul will appear in Montego Bay Magistrate’s court today. The singer and his son are accused of beating up a man at Frankie Paul’s home in Montego Bay some weeks ago. Frankie Paul who was also fined for ganja possession. Stay with JAYBLESSED.com for updates on this story,
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Ninja Man does not want to press charges against inmate…not that easy though!
“I don’t wish to continue the case” is what Ninja Man told the court yesterday in his case involving another inmate. This in regards to the August 3rd incident where Ninja Man was reportedly attacked and “knocked unconscious” by an inmate at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Kingston. It was reported that he was [...]
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UPDATE: Buju Banton to be released in February 2019!
Grammy-award winning reggae superstar Mark ‘Buju Banton’ Myrie will be in prison until February 2019 according to the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons. According to Jodee Brown: The official release date quells rumors that have swirled that Buju would originally serve 6 years; counting time already served & good behavior. However, the Bureau’s official [...]
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Denroy Morgan Out on Bail For Marijuana Charge; Gramps Refutes Media Version of Events
Veteran Jamaican singer Denroy Morgan, best known for the 1981 reggae-disco hit “I’ll Do Anything For You” and the father of the sibling reggae group Morgan Heritage was arrested on Wednesday, September 13, charged with possession of marijuana. According to numerous media reports said to have come from police records, Morgan, 66, was seen leaving [...]
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DRAMA: Mavado’s Manager Julian Jones-Griffiths wanted by Jamaican Police?
Reports are surfacing that Julian Jones-Griffiths, manager for dancehall superstar Mavado is wanted by Jamaican police. Jones-Griffiths who is presently in the U.S. has reported expressed surprise that the police have issued an appeal for information on his whereabouts. “I am very surprised by this media release as the JCF know that I have been [...]
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Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke plead guilty – could face 23 years!
Jamaican drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, who was on a list that identified the world’s most dangerous narcotics traffickers, has pleaded guilty in a deal with US prosecutors to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison. Coke, 42, pleaded guilty yesterday in Manhattan Federal Court to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one [...]
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Barbados Cricket Captain facing seven charges!
Barbadian Cricket Captain Ryan Hinds racked up seven charges and a bail of $2 500 when he appeared in the District Magistrates Court yesterday. Thirty (30) year-old Hinds of Kings Village, Holders Hill St James was charged with assaulting a woman on August 21st 2001, reckless driving, dangerous driving, criminal damage, driving without due care [...]
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NY Jamaican restaurant owner sues for US$10 million! Read why inside…
A Jamaican restaurant owner in New York has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a top-ranking cop with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for putting him out of business. In filing the US$10 million lawsuit, Otis Stone, 42, claimed that Lieutenant Jack Ryan led a “vicious campaign” to run his restaurant, at [...]
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Foxy Brown’s brother is going to jail!
Johnny Nunez/WireImage.com Rapper Foxy Brown’s bad-boy big brother will spend at least two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty today to a credit card scheme in which he swiped $8,000 from the Hermes on Madison Ave. last year. Gavin Marchand, 36, pleaded guilty to two counts of first degree identity theft. He’d [...]
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Bahamian-American is Bishop Eddie Long’s Fifth Sex Partner Accuser!
A fifth man has recently come forward stating that Bishop Eddie Long had sexual relations with him too. Centino Kemp, 22, is claiming that Bishop Long had a sexual relationship with him while he was in college. Kemp, who is a native of the Bahamas, even has Long’s name tattooed on his wrist along with “Never a Mistake, Always a [...]
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