Vybz Kartel Back On Guyanese Airwaves Following Ban

One week after the Guyana National Broadcasting Commission announced that controversial Dancehall artiste, Vybz Kartel was banned from their airwaves, “Di Teacha” is back on radio in the South American nation.

Last week Wednesday, Martin Goolsarran, a spokesman for the state-owned radio outlet, National Communications Network (NCN), confirmed that Kartel’s ban from Guyanese radio was indefinite. Goolsarran implied that Kartel’s music offered “nothing positive” to the entertainment industry and contained a mass amount of obscene lyrics that weren’t appropriate for airplay.

However, reports from Guyana have indicated that some of Kartel’s songs have found their way back on the nation’s airwaves. A NCN source said that Kartel’s songs are indeed being played via their TV and Radio outlets; specifying that the self-professed, “Dancehall Hero’s” clean songs have been playing since the ban was originally announced.

Kartel, who intimated that he has a friend who’s a disc jock in Guyana, said that this confirms his Guyanese fan base is stronger than any other artiste’s own. "I feel, or rather I know the Gaza fans in Guyana outnumber every other artiste's fan base, regionally and internationally,” Vybz Kartel stated.

Kartel’s initial reaction to the ban was that he would never travel to Guyana again; suggesting he’d already made his mind up after receiving multiple death threats from people in the country. Despite his music being back on air, the “Worl’ Boss” says this news doesn’t change his mind.  "I cannot take back the spoken word. I love Guyanese people in general but for security reasons, I'm gonna chill out from there for the foreseeable future,” Kartel said.