Vybz Kartel gets a major snub from the upcoming Jamaica 55 celebration event despite being an inmate in the prison organisation for half-dozen years.

Every year the Jamaican government included inmates every bit part of their independence celebration. Prisoners gets a chance to showcase their talents across all type of skill sets including music, furniture making among others. At that place were a lot of chatter that Vybz Kartel could perform at the result this year but Gazantion fans will be disappointed after getting this piece of news.

Minister of Land in the Ministry of National Security, Senator Pearnel Charles Jr, confirmed with reporters last week that Vybz Kartel will not be performing and will not exist a office of the outcome in any way shape or grade. "If you lot're request me if Vybz Kartel is going to perform, the answer is no at the moment," Pearnel Charles Jr said. "The talents are known. They expose themselves. They are involved in other projects and programmes and everybody is pretty much aware of the persons that are artistes or persons who are involved in any kind of music, fine art, furniture making or anything of that sort."

Charles Jr too added that Vybz Kartel is well known every bit an entertainer and showcasing his talent in the program would not exist of any value. Kartel, whose existent name is Adidja Palmer, is serving a life sentence for a 2014 murder conviction for the murder of Clive "Cadger" Williams. The dancehall star is appealing the conviction and that entreatment trial is ready for February of next year.

Despite being incarcerated since September of 2011, Vybz Kartel has remained one of the most relevant artists within the dancehall infinite. His management team has been releasing a steady stream of new music including 2 total-length albums, prompting speculations that he has been recording music behind bars, which is illegal. He has denied those claims and the correctional department launched an investigation and concluded that there are no evidence that Kartel is recording music in prison.