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Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin says while he has had no cor­re­spon­dence on ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty or mon­i­tor­ing for the ar­rival of Ja­maican dance­hall star Vy­bz Kar­tel in T&T lat­er this month, he did agree with a draft or­der to lim­it the artiste’s pub­lic ap­pear­ances in the lead-up to the con­cert.

Late Wednes­day evening, De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia that Vy­bz Kar­tel—whose re­al name is Adid­ja Palmer—would be barred from a morn­ing in­ter­view, a mid­day TV ap­pear­ance, a press drop, a meet and greet, a school vis­it and a lunch with com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers.

Sturge said the draft or­der to lim­it the artiste’s en­gage­ments was made as there were con­cerns about him in­ter­act­ing with the na­tion’s youths, re­fer­ring to him be­ing freed of the 2011 mur­der of Clive Williams, on the ba­sis of a tech­ni­cal­i­ty and “not the mer­it of the case,” Sturge said.