Rodney "Bounty Killer" Price and David Mavado Brooks are banned from Guyana. This is what Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee declared yesterday at a press conference. In the government's eyes, Bounty Killer and Mavado represent a threat to the country's security. This decision, he added, was taken after a thorough study of their songs.
The decision comes after the controversy over Bounty Killer's last concert in Georgetown earlier this month. Exasperated by three successive power cuts, the crowd had hurled bottles onto the stage. The police had to fire warning shots to restore calm. His performance was just as abruptly ended by the police, the show having run over its scheduled time.
In January, Mavado had already been unable to travel to St Vincent and the Grenadines (news of 14/01/2008). There was already a precedent, but it was political: for having denounced a Senegalese government with monarchist excesses (news of 17/12/2007), Tiken Jah Fakoly was also barred from entering the territory in the following days.