Jah Cure est libre

Sauf erreur, Jah Cure à été libéré hier, après pas loin de 10 ans en zonz'........

Bientôt en live en Europe ?

As of this morning July 28th, 2007 Jah Cure is FREE.

We wish to thank everyone for all the love and support through the years

More updates to come throughout the day.


Christina & Maqueda

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

apparament il sera au eindhoven sundance cet été!

Yes j'ai entendu ca aussi

le fait qu'il soit en prison a participé a entretenir sa réputation (paradoxale hein ?!) et maintenant qu'il est sorti alors la ça va etre l'émeute sur sa couenne !

l'artiste qui tue c'est lui, c'est un peu une légende maintenant

et respect parce qu'il a passé 10 ans in jail

Ca serait quand pas mal qu'il arrête qques temps avec ses tunes lovers-rock guimauve......Back to reality rastaman tunes please !!!

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/ … lead2.html

Reliving a nightmare - Jah Cure's victim tells her story
published: Sunday | August 28, 2005

"Behind these prison walls,
doing my paces, doing my time,
I am, spending my restless
nights, visioning faces "
- Jah Cure

Glenroy Sinclair, Staff Reporter

OVER THE past two years, the songs of rising Rastafarian singer Siccaturie Alcock, better known as 'Jah Cure', have brought joy to countless dancehall fans the world over.

But for 25-year-old Suzanne Ferguson,hearing his songs on the radio and even the very mention of his name, evokes painful memories. To her, Jah Cure is nothing more than the villain in her flashbacks of the night she and her aunt were both held up at gunpoint, robbed and raped.

Suzanne says Jah Cure, the singer whose songs speak of true love and preach about the virtues of righteousness, brutally abducted, robbed and raped her and her aunt, seven years ago on a dirt road in Monetgo Bay, St. James.

For that crime, the singer was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison. He has so far served seven years at one of Kingston's maximum security penal institutions. Prison authorities say his earliest possible release date is July 28, 2007.

Prompted by repeated public statements the singer has made proclaiming his innocence, Suzanne has decided to break her silence and tell her side of the story. She says she has trouble fighting the memories of a gun pointed at her head and of the singer trying to kiss her with his putrid, ganja-smelling mouth as he overpowered and then violently raped her.

She is as bitter about the incident today as she was when it occurred.

The polite, well spoken young woman, took the day off from work to meet with The Sunday Gleaner news team at her home in an upscale neighbourhood near Ironshore, in Montego Bay.

Dressed casually in a white, sleeveless blouse and a pair of blue polkadot pants, Suzanne sat down at a small table on her verandah to tell the tale.

# HER SIDE

"IT WAS a Sunday night, November 8, 1998 when it happened. My two male cousins, my aunt and myself were walking down to the Flamingo Nightclub to play a game of pool. This was something that we did frequently," Suzanneexplained.

As they walked down the street, she observed a tinted, two-door Turbo Starlet motor car, passing them, going in the opposite direction. Within minutes, the group noticed the same car coming slowly back down the road.

"I don't know, but for some reason I took a mental note of the number of the licence plate," said Suzanne.

The group went to the club and after spending about two hours there, decided to head back home. But they did not get very far. On reaching Windsor Road, the car which they had noticed earlier, drove up and blocked their path. Two men were inside. The occupant of the passenger seat jumped out with a gun in his hand and immediately gun-butted one of Suzanne's male cousins. The gunman then ordered the other cousin to walk over to him. Both cousins were robbed and verbally abused.

'NO, DO, DON'T KILL THEM!'

"I then heard a voice from inside the car say 'Kill them!' and I shouted "No, do, don't kill them!" recalled an emotional Suzanne as she knitted her brows as if to block the memory.

Her cousins were told to run for their lives. They did. The gunmen then ordered Suzanne and her aunt into the back of the vehicle. The driver of the car put it in reverse and then headed down Sugar Mill Road. The females were questioned about their cousins, then asked to identifiy themselves.

Their jewellery was taken and the man with the gun sat on top of them, so that they were unable to see where they were being taken. The men then drove on to a bushy, dirt track in the Spring Farm area. It was there that the men viciously raped the women.

"Jah Cure raped me at gunpoint, while the other man raped my aunt outside on the dirt track, in a pile of gravel. While begging for my life in the car and with the gun pointed at my head, I began resisting and begging him," Suzanne recalled.

"I then said to him, if you are going to rape me please, me a beg you to use a condom. He stopped and searched the glove compartment of the vehicle, then said he couldn't find any. He pulled my underwear off and began to rape me.

"I continued to resist and begged him to stop and I remember him saying 'Hey gal, do wey me tell yuh fe do and you wi live'. That was how it happened," said a tearful Suzanne.

After the ordeal, the men took them to the Rose Hall main road, where they were ordered to get out of the vehicle. The men threw $100 on the ground and told them that it was for their bus fare. Suzanne said when the vehicle drove off, she looked up and saw that it was the same licence plate that she had memorised earlier.

"I was able to identifiy him (Jah Cure) because his voice was distinct. They kept talking in the vehicle. Anywhere I hear that voice, I will always remember it. During the incident he tried to kiss me and I could smell the ganja scent on his breath," said Suzanne.

Prior to the incident, she said she had never seen, met or spoken with Jah Cure. She noted that she did not even know who he was until after he was arrested.

"When I had to go over the whole ordeal in court, it was devastating. He (Jah Cure) tried talking to me, trying to say it was not him. He introduced a pregnant woman to me at the courthouse, saying that she was his expectant baby mother. He was trying to get me to become sympathetic toward him. But afterwards, his mother (who was at the court house) told me that the woman was neither pregnant for him, nor was she his girlfriend."

According to Suzanne, the trial was very difficult, but the psychological effect of the rape was worse.

"He tried to contact me while he was in prison, I don't know how he got my telephone number, or how they got my address. I had to go away for a while in order to get away from it all, and during that time, he was still sending messages to my house." She said a lot of effort was made by entertainers and other friends to get her to make statements which would get the offender out of prison.

It was eight months before Suzanne managed to build up enough courage to go out in public again. She said the stigma and embarrassment of being raped was too much for her.

She said that several top entertainers have since called and visited her home, offering her large sums of cash if she would help Jah Cure to get an early release from prison.

'I JUST WANT HIM TO ADMIT'

"We don't want any money. I just want him to admit to his wrong and apologise publicly. I cannot take their money and go to the supermarket and buy a pound of respect, dignity and self esteem. All that was taken from me. I have to be walking on the streets and looking behind me. My relatives are getting threats," she said.

According to Suzanne, the ordeal has remained with her every moment of each day. At nights she tosses and turns, and sleep is as elusive as her peace of mind. The pain and anguish of the incident has imprisoned her for life. The incident has had an adverse impact on her relatives and has also affected her relationships with men.

"I don't trust anyone. If they try to come close, I react very violently and if they try to get intimate, I have flashbacks and it is very difficult," Suzanne spoke freely.

"Everytime there is a lot of publicity about Jah Cure, I have even more flashbacks. Sometimes I am so afraid to leave my house. When I go out in the public and hear people say, 'Free Jah Cure', I have serious flashbacks and it becomes very difficult. It seems to me that entertainers are more valued than everybody else in Jamaica and as a woman, I feel seriously undervalued."

While she has not undergone formal counselling, says her current church congregation helps her in the very hard times through prayer and fellowship. Much of her support also comes from good friends and the residents of her community, especially the young people who are very protective of her.

Name changed.

On ne connaitra probablement jamais la vérité.
Jah Cure est un grand artiste, c'est certain.
Mais pour les personnes concernées de près ou de loin par ce genre d'histoires, je ne peux m'empêcher de cacher mon enthousiasme.
Le fait qu'il soit un artiste de talent n'enlève rien au fait que ce qu'il aurait fait est la pire chose qu'il soit. On n'en entend plus parler, c'est pourquoi je tenais à c/c ce texte.
Sorry s'il est innocent...

A bon entendeur

Only Jah knows....

Yes...Grosss news!

Free Jah Cure!

Rise Up Crew a écrit :Ca serait quand pas mal qu'il arrête qques temps avec ses tunes lovers-rock guimauve......Back to reality rastaman tunes please !!!

c'est vrai, on veut des big tunes du genre king in this jungle, western region, vibes man ah build, zion way...etc...!

Markos a écrit :

Rise Up Crew a écrit :Ca serait quand pas mal qu'il arrête qques temps avec ses tunes lovers-rock guimauve......Back to reality rastaman tunes please !!!

c'est vrai, on veut des big tunes du genre king in this jungle, western region, vibes man ah build, zion way...etc...!

+1

Ou bien Rastaman Chant,enorme celle la aussi

Du Jamaica Observer de ce matin:

Jah Cure released early, said greeted by scores of Rasta brethren

BY TYRONE S REID Observer staff reporter [adresse retirée]
Sunday, July 29, 2007



After eight years "behind the prison walls" of the Tower Street Adult Correctional facility in Kingston, the day that he was "longing for" - his release - came yesterday, but not with the fanfare and flourish that many Jamaicans had highly anticipated.


JAH CURE... released from prison yesterday
During his time behind bars, reggae singer Jah Cure created headlines that won him legions of fans, many who started petitions advocating his release. But yesterday, the reggae artiste, born Siccature Alcock, who was scheduled to be released at 8:00 am, walked out of the maximum security prison minutes after 5:00 am, according to guards.

But even though Jah Cure's early morning release stumped his fans, as well as journalists, scores of chalice-carrying Rastafarians were at the prison gate to greet their 'brother', a senior warder told the Sunday Observer.

"Mi seh, some chalice bun out yah this morning. Ah nuff Rasta come out in di early morning. The one dem who hear bout the early release," the warder said. "Him walk out like Nelson Mandela and him greet some of the man them before the warden escort him away."
The senior warder, who spoke to some of the people who had gathered for the 8:00 am release, said the decision was made to prevent any commotion outside the prison gates.

"I am sorry to know that people came to see him and didn't get the chance. We had to try and avoid the crowd," the warder, dressed in a bright blue uniform, told the crowd, after declining to give his name.
Yesterday, the Sunday Observer received positive comments about Alcock's character while he was an inmate on the A-North block.
"He was a well-behaved inmate. We never have no problem with him," one worker at the prison said.

Another said: "Yes man, him just love him music. Him did alright."
One female warden agreed with her co-workers, before advising us to direct any further questions to "the head office".
In the meantime, several fans who refused to believe that their "artiste" had already left the compound set up camp outside and openly expressed their opinions about his imprisonment and subsequent release.

One female vendor outside the prison, who gave her name only as Miss Yvonne, told the Sunday Observer that Alcock received many visitors each month, the majority being females.

"Him get visitors from all over the world. The other day a white girl come here from France but him didn't take the visit," Miss Yvonne said. "Him go to prison go make him name. I hope that him learn him lesson and move on with him life," she said, adding that she heard that Jah Cure made a stop at Rockfort to "wash off" after leaving the prison.

Her other interesting comments, which had everyone cracking up, included: "Mi hear seh Jah Cure pay all warden rent when him did ovah deh."
One man who said he drove from St Thomas to witness the singer's release said he was very disappointed but wished Jah Cure all the best.
"Even though him have the whole world claim that them love him, him have to be careful," he said.

Another man, a broom vendor from Clarendon, said he wanted to get a glimpse of the man whose songs he can't get enough of.
Trisha, a female fan and a feelance photographer, said people should not judge Alcock as he was capable of making mistakes and changing like other humans.
"I believe that to each his own. If it wasn't time for him to be released, he wouldn't have been released. I just hope that he has learnt from the experience," she said.

Her friend, Kelly, added: "I think he deserved to be released. I just want to get to see him in person now. I hope he wil change too."
Alcock, who was born in Hanover in 1978, was reportedly given the name Jah Cure by Capleton whom he met while growing up in Kingston.

According to police reports, in November 1998, while driving around Montego Bay Alcock was pulled over by the police and arrested on charges of gun possession, rape and robbery. He was taken before the courts in April 1999, found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Since the arrest, Jah Cure has firmly maintained his innocence. The story surrounding his case dominated media headlines and barber shop conversations for months, leading to several "Free Jah Cure" campaigns.

While in prison, the singer had access to recording equipment and has released three albums and a number of singles, some of which have done well on local reggae charts. His debut album, Free Jah's Cure was released in 2000, and was followed by Ghetto Life (2003) and Freedom Blues (2005). His popular singles include True Reflections, Love is and Longing For.

Pour les non anglophones, Jah Cura a été libéré à 5 heures du matin (au lieu de 8 initialement prévu, afin d'éviter qu'une trop grande foule s'amasse pour attendre sa libération). Les réactions des diverses personnes qui se sont rendues au pénitencier pour attendre sa libération étaient assez diverses, mais plutôt réservées dans l'ensemble. Pas de grosse effusion de joie pour l'instant d'après le journal.

Jah Cure arrived one hour late for the press conference in the Jonkanoo Lounge at the Hilton New Kingston hotel tonight. Immediately, excitement surged through the crowd like an electric current, and photographers jostled each other to get a good shot as he walked in with his arm around his mother, Mama Cure.
As he sat down at the head table, the song, Nuh Build Great Man, belched out of the speakers, while white candles strategically placed on the table seemed to bathe him in a blast of celestial white.
Television cameramen, newspaper and Internet photographers surrounded the table and the stutterflashes of light continued for at least five minutes before the press conference could begin.
Spragga Benz blessed the place and set the tone for the evening's activities with a well-intentioned prayer, and then delivered a few nuggets of wisdom. He also explained his presence at the podium.
"A lot of artistes who want a forward fi tek dem outta a hole call Jah Cure name, who say Jah Cure fi free...hand up innah the air if you love Jah Cure...word sound is power, and however it come out, it come out," he said.
He also told the world that 'there are a lot of hard lessons which he will interpret into hard lyrics so prepare unnuh self".
Allison Hunt, one of Jah Cure's managers, was brief in her introduction of the man himself.
Jah Cure was up next, and he got straight to the point.
"I am Jah Cure for those who don't know me," he said to titters of amusement from the audience. "And I am here to answer your questions."
And that he did. For the most part.
He fielded questions about the negative perception of him as a person based on his incarceration, denied reports that a movie was being made on his life, and sidestepped questions dealing with how his future travel arrangements would be affected by his incarceration.
He also quipped that the reported acts of vandalism of his posters could actually be zealous fans taking home images of the Cure to their homes.
There were light moments when he joked with the media that he was 'eating a piece of fruit..I haven't eaten fruit in a while', a lighthearted swipe at the paucity of choice of prison fare sevred in the island's institutions. One876Entertainment.com editor K'riq asked Jah Cure if 'last night was the longest night of his life'.
"That's a very interesting question. All I know is that mi nuh sleep, I was up all night," he said to delighted laughter from the audience.
K'riq also asked if there was any other female apart from his mother who he was 'longing for'.
"That's personal," he said, laughing. The audience shared his amusement. One876Entainment.com in the building!
He bigged up incarcerated artistes like 'Serano' who he believed to be talented.
One of the most poignant moments came when journalist Barbara Blake-Hannah directed a question towards Jah Cure's mother on her thoughts when she blessed eyes on her son again as a free man.
"I am feeling so very happy, it's like I am in a dream. I just give thanks to the Almighty for bringing my son back alive to me, and I have to give thanks and praises to life."
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enfin bon il les a bien mérité ces années en zonz ... free jah cure but justice above all !