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Lo­cal event pro­mot­er Ja­cho En­ter­tain­ment Lim­it­ed has filed a civ­il law­suit against Ja­maican dance­hall artiste Adid­ja Az­im Palmer, pop­u­lar­ly known as Vy­bz Kar­tel, aris­ing out of the can­cel­la­tion of the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val, which was sched­uled to take place on May 31, 2025.

The mat­ter, filed in the High Court of Jus­tice on Tues­day, al­leges breach of con­tract, un­just en­rich­ment, and defama­tion, among oth­er claims, and seeks dam­ages in ex­cess of $7.3 mil­lion, in ad­di­tion to the re­cov­ery of US$1.1 mil­lion al­ready paid to the artiste un­der a per­for­mance agree­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to the State­ment of Case, Ja­cho En­ter­tain­ment en­tered in­to a writ­ten agree­ment with Palmer on No­vem­ber 22, 2024, un­der which he was con­tract­ed to head­line the fes­ti­val for a fee of US$1.35 mil­lion, payable in four in­stal­ments. The event was ini­tial­ly sched­uled for Feb­ru­ary 28, 2025, but was lat­er resched­uled to May 31, 2025, re­port­ed­ly with the full knowl­edge and par­tic­i­pa­tion of the artiste’s man­age­ment team.