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The fall­out fol­low­ing the fi­as­co that turned out to be the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val has left many with­in the en­ter­tain­ment fra­ter­ni­ty en­gag­ing in some re­flec­tion.

Vy­bz Kar­tel’s non-ap­pear­ance, and the sub­se­quent pull­out of oth­er top-billed acts for the May 31 event, has al­ready placed the pro­mo­tion team in a fi­nan­cial pick­le. How­ev­er, some even pon­dered if the team would have made a prof­it on the event giv­en the rev­e­la­tion by Ja­cho En­ter­tain­ment team on Sat­ur­day that the Ja­maican star had al­ready re­ceived US$950,000 of his US$1.35 mil­lion per­for­mance fee, af­ter the dance­hall star’s man­age­ment is­sued a state­ment that the artiste, re­al name Adi­jah Palmer, would not be com­ing due to a breach of con­tract.

Based on the cur­rent ex­change rate this meant Kar­tel was paid ap­prox­i­mate­ly $6.45 mil­lion in, while his over­all fee would have been $9.18 mil­lion.