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Chris Brown cancels Guyana concert

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Written by Denis Scott Chabrol

Wednesday, 21 November 2012 16:04

chris_brown Chief Executive Officer of Hits and Jams Entertainment, Rawle Ferguson on Wednesday confirmed that Award Winning singer, Chris Brown has cancelled his December 26 performance in Guyana due to protests.

Ferguson said Brown has also cancelled a tour to the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago because of similar concerns. Ferguson denied that the cancellation was more about the cost and logistics for Brown to fly directly between Africa and the Caribbean for performances.

“I think protests were the main thing. They were very concerned with the political unrest and the protest against us,” he told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com).

Ferguson said that after the Boxing Day performance, Brown should have travelled to Trinidad for another show on December 27 before going to Africa.

Domestic violence activists were among those who had openly condemned government and Hits and Jams for arranging for Brown to come here in light of his battery of Rihanna during a relationship back then.

Ferguson said a contract had been already sealed for Brown’s Boxing Day performance here.

While no threats have been issued to Brown online via his website, the Hits and Jams CEO confirmed that a number of the posts as well as news media reports have not gone down well with Brown’s management.

“The management team in a correspondence to HJ Entertainment said they do not feel comfortable at this stage allowing the multi award winning singer to come to Guyana as they have been following reports in the local and international press about the protests over his Guyana appearance,” Hits and Jams Entertainment said in a statement.

Over the weekend, the singer’s performance in Europe was smeared with widespread protests. Hits and Jams said Brown’s team appears to be making efforts to avoid similar protests. His management team has indicated that they remain interested in having the singer perform in Guyana but just not at this time under the current circumstances.

Hits and Jams Entertainment said it intends to still host the “Unforgettable II” show on December 26 but with a different headline act. Already negotiations have started with a number of leading American R&B artistes and the company said “we will keep the media and the public up-to-date with the developments.”

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+19 #1 Concerned 2012-11-21 16:19

Good excuse Chris lmaooo. They actually thought he was going to go., when guyana was not even listed on his website. These promoters are gullible, invest in Guyanese musicians, Guyanese too foreign minded

0 #2 JayC 2012-11-21 16:21

Are these domestic violence activists aware that this young man apologised for his mistakes and underwent counselling as per court order? He and his girlfriend has even patched things up and are back together. Not everyone is perfect, some people deserve a second chance and Chris Brown is one of them. I'm disappointed, was really looking forward to this.

+20 #3 goodwill 2012-11-21 16:21

This cancellation is a blessing! Christmas is a time of PEACE and GOODWILL and his type of performanced is not in keeping with the Chrismas spirit

+10 #4 linden Rootsnden Roots 2012-11-21 16:22

Good Riddance

+13 #5 malaika06 2012-11-21 16:43

Good! it's time Guyanese stand UP for something!!!

-18 #6 TheChosenOne 2012-11-21 16:44

the destructive acts of the opposition are well on their way.

Thanks to cock-eye man and his posse ppl will now have the image that guyanese r indeed like hooligans... the thing about it tho is that the media will show these protestors and the majority will be blacks... hence the never ending claim that black ppl cant behave themselves in a civilized manner.

-18 #7 Realist 2012-11-21 16:45

Rohee for presidential candidate 2016!!!

-9 #8 Baby girl 2012-11-21 16:47

what he did was wrong no man have the right to hit a woman,but if Rihanna forgive him why some people still on his case, when we have men beating and killing our women right here ,let us deal with our problem and stay out of other people own.

+10 #9 guyamerican 2012-11-21 17:14

good news on the eve of thanksgiving ,at lease he will feel it in his pocket a little and in his head a lot because he will now sit down and rethink hitting another woman in future and to think that the woman he hit has guyanese blood running through her veins ,he can still come and put on a show for his backers and their families guess they dont mind been entertain by a woman beater ,he may have done his assignments given to him be the judge but some boycotts is in order hope she dont be foolish enough to make up with him because he will in future hit her again for something or the other,victory for those who are against voilents on women .

-10 #10 linfair lewis 2012-11-21 17:33

this is so ridiculous. he not coming to guyana wouldnt ene the world of abuse and violence against women. the guy made one mistake in life and is now trying to rise above it we live in such a hippocritical world omg. there artist out there who shoots people have sex with under age girls etc and people still praise them. Y R THEY JUDGING THE POOR GUY AND BRINGING HIM DOWN. WHO R WE TO JUDGE. RI RI FOGAVE HIM. Y CANT WE. THE LORD FOGAVE THE WHOLE WORLD 4 THEIR SINS Y WE CANT FOGIVE 1 PERSON. THESE PEOPLE NEED TO GET A LIFE.AND STOP LIVING IN THE PAST. IM MAD CAUSE I WAS REALLY ANTICIPATING THIS SHOW EVEN POSTED ABOUT IT ON FB. WAT THESE PEOPLE EXPECTED 4 THE POOR GUY TO ROT IN JAIL JUST 4 HITTING COME ON GET REAL.HE MADE A MISTAKE HE ADMITTED IT AND FACED IT LIKE A MAN AND ASKED 4 GIVENESS. THIS IS JUST PLAIN UP HATRED TO ME SO SHOULD I BE SCARED OF HIM 4 HITTING OR U 4 CARRYING SO MUCH HATRED TOWARDS ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. ANYONE WHO HATES THIS MUCH CAN KILL SO THESE PROTESTORS NEED TO CHECK THEM SELVES AND ALOW THE MAN TO COME AND PERFORM.

+5 #11 Truth & Integrity Commissioner 2012-11-21 17:41

good riddance...

+3 #12 Chris 2012-11-21 17:42

Are the critics now happy?
Personally,a Chris Brown concert was inconsequential to me, but the agenda that was being peddled was quite disturbing, using a person´s mistake (when we all make mistakes in life) to promote a personal agenda and defame a person´s character speaks to the gutter in which the critics´minds lied.

Seems like we live in a country where we dont belive in rehabiliation but rather in continuous persecution.

+7 #13 vikkip 2012-11-21 18:10

So who is losing sleep ?

+10 #14 Shirley Jordan 2012-11-21 18:16

I am thankful that Chris Brown is no longer coming. A visit of this nature does our nation no good. The prayers of many Christians are being answered. Keep on praying.

+2 #15 visitor 2012-11-21 18:21

Poor thing. His bad behaviour has brought disrepute on him. Hope he learn his lesson from these happenings.

-5 #16 PETER SAM 2012-11-21 19:04

He right, if u can lose ur one side kidney for an iphone they might kill he for being Brown.

-7 #17 Dall in USA 2012-11-21 19:47

Glad he did...u people were talking too much crap about the concert instead of feeling lucky to c a Mega-Star. PPP this and PPP that...Christ should have let yall buy his tickets, let yall show up then he should have stood yall up like fools.

-9 #18 tiffany myers 2012-11-21 20:16

what chris brown did was out of anger and he said he was sorry for his behavior.
we the people of this country should not denied chris brown the chance of coming and perform for us cause of what he did it could have been any one of us

-11 #19 eon 2012-11-21 20:29

Black people will cry

+1 #20 MACK 2012-11-21 20:40

BS. They could not come up with the money to have him here.

+13 #21 Bribery & Thiefing Continues ! 2012-11-21 20:43

no woman beater must be welcomed on any stage anywhere

-3 #22 pete 2012-11-21 20:47

Imagine if it was roheee and not brown... he was coming anyway.

+3 #23 Fedup/GT 2012-11-21 20:54

Great,best news I've heard for the year,hope the rest of R%B singers follow suit.

-1 #24 concerned youth 2012-11-21 21:06

lol... diff day same HJ drama... yawwwn.. onto real news items..

-17 #25 PETE 2012-11-21 22:28

Thanks to all those opposition supporters that talk crap when the show was anounced. Chris brown obviously saw the country had fools and he pulled out from the tour to GT. Hope u people happy now...APNU and AFC breaking the country down.

+5 #26 tory 2012-11-21 23:35

It was a sham from day one the know that the man is not coming.

+3 #27 ray 2012-11-21 23:56

http://www.concertboom.com/chris-brown/tour-dates/

Chris Brown never had intentions coming.look at his tour dates in the link above. Guyana was never mentioned

+1 #28 coolstorm 2012-11-22 03:19

Guyanese can be,sold any sort of,stories. They cant find the,money to pay,Chris Brown. Talk us,cheap but not cheap enough to pay an American super star.

+6 #29 Judgement 2012-11-22 04:08

Quoting PETE:

Thanks to all those opposition supporters that talk crap when the show was anounced. Chris brown obviously saw the country had fools and he pulled out from the tour to GT. Hope u people happy now...APNU and AFC breaking the country down.

PETE you are an idiot and a simpleton.Guyana has too many of your kind that is why the country is morally and ethically bankrupt,while the drugs barons are infesting the place with destroying the lives of people at home and abroad while this so call government sits back and do very little to confront the root of the problem , I wonder why. It seems as though a number of Guyanese have lost their way. Well without morals, ethics and values you are surely going to be a lost sheep. The black people of Guyana especially the young people needs to stop jumping up and down and be more disciplined so that they can advance in a progressing and organised manner.

-1 #30 Teri 2012-11-22 04:42

Guyanese people should be the least to critique anyone on domestic violence, And I think Chris made the best choice of not performing for people who like to to pelt stones when they live in glass houses. Guyana's can't pay him to perform, and as a woman I say if if a woman want to act like a man then she should be treated like a man. Rihanna still have her man and everyone else is making themselves fools

-3 #31 brey 2012-11-22 06:03

sad thing.....my mother never go to any shows..she wanted to go to this one really bad since it's her wedding anniversary ......blessings to Hj In finding another act..

+5 #32 CleveM 2012-11-22 06:35

Who is Brown again??? :)

+5 #33 pik pik 2012-11-22 06:46

B/S...A place guyana whr grown men pray on teenagers and the law maker i call them fools don't do anything about it now the are talking about hris brownpersonal issues fix theinternal poblems which is much more serious tht chris pers onal issues that the cant change

+7 #34 Agnes 2012-11-22 07:11

What does Chris Brown have to offer Guyana? Will his performance rid the country of the garbage or change our racial mentality? Let's use our hard earned cash to rid Guyana of all the stinking garbage and learn to live in peace and harmony. Let's see each other as having the same right to exist in a country that so blessed with an abundance of resources.

+2 #35 BiG Al 2012-11-22 07:52

Sorry HJ, but I dont buy that B*** S*** excuse. Y'all really think Guyanese people stupid....anyway, good riddance. All's well that ends well.

SO Mr. Lunchman, with that $Mills y'all just "save" on Brown stain, y'all gon invest it in the people and infrastructure or de PeePeePee gon just send straight to the Marriot??

0 #36 shaun 2012-11-22 08:26

imagine the domestic violence head in huyana is a frigging lesbian and she talking about banning people when her life style is shameful

-4 #37 shaun 2012-11-22 08:33

JUDGEMENT i wana ask you this where wre you for 28 odd years when guyana was starved for development when burnham was finished with guyana the country was broken empty we wre poorer than hati more corrupt too so doant talk about now it was burnham who said that there is no such thing as corruption

+1 #38 puzzled 2012-11-22 09:05

Quoting Shirley Jordan:

I am thankful that Chris Brown is no longer coming. A visit of this nature does our nation no good. The prayers of many Christians are being answered. Keep on praying.

lmao !!! christian prayers answered??? get real !!! where are the christians when ppl like mavado vegas vibes kartel bounty killa and the whole host of other artistes who promote violence and downright lawlessness comes to Guyana??? is God deaf to your prayers then or u so called 'christians' forget to pray then??? this is nothing but a political stunt and has nothing to do with domestic violence because many of u who are condemning this guy are either victims or abusers !!! so get off the political bandwagon!!!

-3 #39 Salawala 2012-11-22 09:07

We should have been glad this guy was comming O let's bring slim shady instead cause this would send ah great msge to the opposition . Hahahah

+5 #40 Sapodilla Girl 2012-11-22 09:45

Quoting PETE:

Thanks to all those opposition supporters that talk crap when the show was anounced. Chris brown obviously saw the country had fools and he pulled out from the tour to GT. Hope u people happy now...APNU and AFC breaking the country down.

Oh, I See. So, the people in Trinidad, SWEDEN and the other European countries where the people actually protested AT his concerts were fools too! APNU and AFC BEEN DEH???!!

0 #41 stef 2012-11-22 10:08

am glade he is not coming for one reason i don't think its the best time for us to be spending extra money on stuff rather than xmas as to his mistakes the woman den tek back the man and ppl still [censored]ing about what he did u all are the fools the guy paid his dues to society and the same rihanna u defending also think that he paid enough so leave the guy alone and worry about the men here that is killing the woman like chickens

+1 #42 Paul Harris 2012-11-22 10:56

If Guyana was in recovery mode from corruption I would say that protestors of Chris Brown have a point. Guyana is ranked too high one women's abuse (http://www.eclac.cl/portofspain/noticias/bolnoticias/3/11323/Issue3.pdf). It will take at least a decade of conscientious work by everyone to start going in another direction. Yes, I get the way ppl see Chris Brown as unreformed (otherwise, y would Christians stand up against him (tongue in cheek)). It might be because he is hooking up with his ex who seem to be having a breakdown of some sort. However, since he great grands and grand grew up on my street in Crescent St West Ruimveldt, I could say it might not be a breakdown but arrogance, which makes it more unlikely that he has reformed. However, what does it matter. It is a concert in a God-forgotten land. When any of the commenters stand up against violence against women, then they could speak, since Guyana has an unceasing violence against women that means many ppl know but keep their mouth shut and should continue to do so. I do not listen to Chris Brown music anymore. However, I would not stop his concert in a place like this. He, Chris Brown, coming to Guyana or not, will not change the stats on violence against women

+2 #43 BUSYBODY 2012-11-22 11:07

too bad! it matters not if he comes as yes he can dance but i am not impressed with his signing anyway,

but i think really they could not pay him poor HJ.

-3 #44 shaun 2012-11-22 11:43

Shirley Jordan........... the good book says he who is without sin cast the first stone......... u pelting rocks

+1 #45 Golden Girl 2012-11-22 12:02

Concerned I agree with you God is in the midst of everything, regardless of protest or not chris brown would have never landed on the soil of Guyana, I like you checked is website and saw nothing about him performing Guyana. I wonder if he was to be travelling with ezjet. Inspite of everything God is in the midst and he shall never will be moved. Guayan has the potential for tourism but not the infrastructure attract people like chris brown maybe that is the way the ppp/c want to distract people from the social ills of Guyana or a way to launder their dirty money. Thank God chris brown would not be performing Guyana, prayers have definetly being answered as always.

+1 #46 Golden Girl 2012-11-22 12:03

Judgement, everything happens for a reason only a fool donot know that.

+1 #47 Golden Girl 2012-11-22 12:07

Whether there were verbal protest by people in Guyana and Trinidad all the way my gut feeling is that chris brown was not going to go to Guyana, so I wonder what Hits and Jams trying to prove. Did they remember when Vybz Kartel was to perform in Guyana some people have very short memory.

+1 #48 phillsop 2012-11-22 16:45

Have a look at all of the comments and you will see that 85% of the comments dis-agree with Chris Brown coming to Guyana due to his woman beating.

Now tell me how come that women in Guyana are beaten and treated so badly by their men and they do NOTHING for fear of their throats being cut?

How come you are seeing the straw in the other man's eye and you have a big pole juck up in your eye?

+2 #49 bridget 2012-11-22 19:12

What's it with Chris Brown? Does Guyana not have talented anough people to perform in Guyana? How about letting Guyanese share some of the money that the promotes have? They think they can pay Mr Brown in Guyana currency? I beg you, take that cash and spend it to clean up that poor city with all the mess around. Make the city clean so that people can be encouraged to come home and bring friends.It is a stinking shame to see the city and its environs.CLEAN IT UP!!

-4 #50 guyamerica 2012-11-22 19:44

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, the window you break might be your own. Chris Brown has made a mistake and has paid for it and moved on, Ri Ri is back in love with him so all the haters mind your own business

-4 #51 kelo 2012-11-22 21:35

Chris brown is my favorite male artist and now I'm really dissappointed that he is not coming

+1 #52 francis jackson 2012-11-23 01:23

Quoting malaika06:

Good! it's time Guyanese stand UP for something!!!

we have the power and don't know how to use it and protest in the interest of our struggle. Rihanna's mother or father are guyanese, dont know which one.

+2 #53 patto 2012-11-23 16:42

So where is the Lunchman ? Out to lunch on this one. He was the big Bully last year but this year he has to "tuck his tail between his legs " Hits and Jams ..Big Joker, Roger Lunchman ..Lil Joker , and I am LMAO

-2 #54 sharleen persaud 2012-11-23 17:03

Guyana have some stupid Ppl the problem between chris an rihanna that is they problem an as far as I concern they have no problem that is love but ppl so stupid to see no one should not judge no one I know he did something wrong but he did his time

-2 #55 sharleen persaud 2012-11-23 17:06

No matter what he did an what ppl says about him I am his fan

+1 #56 patto 2012-11-24 13:48

Quoting francis jackson:

Quoting malaika06:
Good! it's time Guyanese stand UP for something!!!

we have the power and don't know how to use it and protest in the interest of our struggle. Rihanna's mother or father are guyanese, dont know which one.

Her mother is Guyanese , her father is Bajan

+1 #57 Golden Girl 2012-11-26 11:49

Patto,rihanna mother is Guyanese from Agricola, the Brathwaites from Second Street.

-1 #58 shaun 2012-11-26 13:40

Quoting puzzled:

Quoting Shirley Jordan:
I am thankful that Chris Brown is no longer coming. A visit of this nature does our nation no good. The prayers of many Christians are being answered. Keep on praying.

lmao !!! christian prayers answered??? get real !!! where are the christians when ppl like mavado vegas vibes kartel bounty killa and the whole host of other artistes who promote violence and downright lawlessness comes to Guyana??? is God deaf to your prayers then or u so called 'christians' forget to pray then??? this is nothing but a political stunt and has nothing to do with domestic violence because many of u who are condemning this guy are either victims or abusers !!! so get off the political bandwagon!!!

well said and to add most of them are far removed from reality the just sit there and forget it got other people who wive in the world too these people forget that god said pray for the leaders for it is i (god) who put them there but then again some of them are holiday christian and weekend belivers

0 #59 Sancho 2012-12-03 15:43

How about Mary J. Blige, Leona Lewis and Rihanna visiting Agricola and performing in Georgetown?

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