{"id":2351,"date":"2019-01-28T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annsvg.com\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2019-01-28T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:17:12","slug":"pj-patterson-give-buju-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annsvg.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/28\/pj-patterson-give-buju-a-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ Patterson: Give Buju a chance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FREED reggae artiste Buju Banton has been given a resounding vote of confidence by retired Jamaica Prime Minister PJ Patterson.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a wide-ranging interview with the <strong>Jamaica Observer<\/strong> last week, Patterson, who launched the book My Political Journey, which chronicles his life up to when he retired as Jamaica&#8217;s sixth prime minister in 2006 following a 13-year unbroken stretch as Jamaica&#8217;s number one policymaker, said that Buju Banton had committed the crime, served the time, and should now be encouraged to prepare for life afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buju (registered name Mark Anthony Myrie) returned to Jamaica last December 7 after serving almost seven years and five months of a 10-year and one-month sentence in a Georgia, USA prison for cocaine trafficking. The 45-year-old will be hosting his first major concert on March 16, controversially dubbed Long Walk To Freedom \u2014 a direct relation to the title of South African great Nelson Mandela&#8217;s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom published in December 1994, which highlighted, among other things, Mandela&#8217;s early life and his 27 years spent in prison on treason charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Put to Patterson that there existed a school of thought that Buju, as a convict, was being glorified by vast sections of the Jamaican landscape, the former president of the People&#8217;s National Party, chanted dissimilar sentiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt&#8217;s not a question of glorification. He was convicted of a crime, he served his time. He wants to pursue his career in music. People found his message both compelling and alluring. As he himself said It&#8217;s not An Easy Road, so he is gone through a difficult part of the road,\u201d Patterson stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBuju has paid his penalty; there is no reason to condemn him in advance of anything he would do in future life. Certainly, when one reads all the evidence of the case it&#8217;s very clear that he succumbed to an inducement that he should have avoided. I think he himself would recognise that,\u201d said Patterson, an eminent attorney-at-law who many believe did not show his true worth and potential in the courtroom because of the over 40 years that he spent in active Jamaican politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jamaicans, Patterson thinks, should give the reggae singer the space to reshape his life and career, so that he can again become a positive influence on the Jamaican society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREED reggae artiste Buju Banton has been given a resounding vote of confidence by retired Jamaica Prime Minister PJ Patterson. 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