Bounty Killa is in hot water again.
A Jamaican women’s advocacy group is hitting out against his inclusion in the line-up of a free concert being staged in recognition of International Women’s Day 2017.
The concert is being organized by the Bureau of Gender of Affairs in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sports, in partnership with the Aids Healthcare Foundation, is being held under the theme ‘Unite to End Gender Based Violence’.
The public outcry comes due to the September 2010 arrest of the entertainer, whose real name is Rodney Pryce, after a female companion of his, turned up bloodied at a police station in Kingston and complained that he had assaulted her with a hammer.
The incident occurred at his Oakland Apartments residence in St Andrew.
In another incident earlier that year, he spent two weeks behind bars after being arrested by the Constant Spring police for beating up his girlfriend.
Police had reported at the time that while the DJ was being processed, he called the woman and threatened her life in their presence.
The complainant, Kadeem Baker, eventually dropped the charges against Pryce.
Executive Director at WE-Change and Director of Tambourine Army, Latoya Nugent, is livid.
She told the Jamaica Observer that due to the spirit of the concert and the day it is being held, it was a slap in the face of women especially in light of everything that has been happening since December 2016.
“Almost every day (since December) we wake up to a story about a woman being murdered, rape etcetera and I think what is perhaps the most heart-breaking part of it for me is that it is a concert that is planned by the ministry with responsibility for gender affairs. So when the ministry with responsibility for gender affairs is engaging somebody who is a known perpetrator of gender based violence (GBV) or violence against women, then I think that’s very problematic and I am still in shock about the processes that would have been involved in organizing this concert,” Nugent said.
