A Letter From Adidja Palmer

Kartel did write an open letter to Carolyn Cooper,

“Dear Ms. Cooper,

Good day to you and i hope you are in the best of health and the highest of spirits, but I am not.

“Ms Cooper as you know i am in jail on numerous charges and i’d like to tell you that i am an innocent man who needs your help because i’m being painted as this evil ‘D.J. by day, don by night’ murderer who is society’s number one cause of crime and violence. The police is using the media to slaughter me and as such i don’t think i will get a fair trial. They are using the media to form public opinion of me that is so contradictory to the person that I really am. They (police) have tried my case in the public & found me guilty.

“Every single piece of alleged evidence, every new development in the case is thrown on t.v. as if this is a soap opera, but i can assure you that this is no movie to me. This is about my life and my freedom and i take them very seriously.

“My charges are merely allegations, but they are giving the public the impression that i am guilty and that is not fair to me or my family.

“I have been to court on numerous occasions and saw hundreds of accused men who are charged with heinous crimes like murdering children, killing police officers, burning & shooting whole families and i have never once saw police on t.v. discussing the development of those cases, much less every week, as in my case.”

and she did write an article for the Jamaica Gleaner.

[Video] Vybz Kartel UWI Lecture

As I told you few days ago, Vybz Kartel was invited to lecture at the University of the West Indies.

Here is some Footage.

Vybz Kartel slated to lecture at the University of the West Indies

Addi the Teacha was invited by Carolyn Cooper to lecture at the UWI this thursday and accepted the invitation.

I got an instructive email from Vybz Kartel last Wednesday in response to my letter to the editor published that same day (’More on Kartel and bleaching’). I reproduce it here with his permission. Since the email was sent on his BlackBerry, the punctuation was a bit informal, so I did just a little editing for clarity.

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Reggae: A German perspective

Article about the german perspective on reggae music and the two music journalists Ellen Koehlings and Pete Lilly as lecturers for University of the West Indies’ second annual Reggae International Lecture.

“The mainstream press, more or less, ignored reggae or equated the music with mythical ganja-smoking Rastas. The harshness of ghetto life was often romanticised from an anti-capitalist view according to the motto, poor but happy.”

Read more via Jamaican Observer