Dominica Bucks Trend on Mavado

I'm sure people were waiting with baited breath for the outcome of Mavado’s performance in Dominica this past Saturday. From all reports the show was incident free. Some factions of society were requesting a total ban of the artist from the Dominica Labor Party government.  They included The Evangelical Association of Dominica as well as local DJ DJ Alfy.

Instead, he was allowed to perform with certain restrictions: According to Police Comissioner Mathias Lestrade,  “In the interest of the public peace and general safety,” he should  “Refrain from singing any song that can be deemed by the local authorities which tends or may tend to incite,” not “perform any illegal act on the stage or in the vicinity of the show,” and not “incite the crowd to commit any offence at the show for example requesting the crowd to light up their spliffs/marijuana or consume any other illegal drugs.” According to Tourism Minister Ian Douglas a ban on Mavado would not be in keeping with the spirit of CARICOM, seeing that Mavado  he is a CARICOM national and has not yet committed any offence in Dominica. Show patrons were asked to leave all weapons at home.

Mavado spoke to the Media the day of the show stating. “I come to Dominica to do a show and to sing the songs that I sing. It doesn’t matter to me which authority wants to watch and do whatever,” …... “I just came here to do my work and if they feel they don’t like my songs then don’t listen to my songs

Finally show time came around and 5,000 plus fans were singing his songs word for word. Mavado took time to thank the Dominica government for not banning him..

Mavado, born David Constantine Brooks is so far banned in St Vincent, Grenada, Guyana, and Trinidad