JOSHUA SEEMU­N­GAL, AN­NA-LISA PAUL & JENSEN LA VENDE

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says he is in­trigued by the amount of for­eign ex­change be­ing men­tioned in re­la­tion to pay­ment fees for artistes in­volved in the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val and has re­quest­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion. This, even as the neg­a­tive fall­out from Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer and oth­er for­eign acts pulling out of the event con­tin­ued yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to the event’s or­gan­is­ers, Vy­bz Kar­tel had re­ceived US$950,000 of a con­trac­tu­al­ly ob­lig­at­ed US$1.3 mil­lion be­fore his de­ci­sion to pull out of the con­cert due to their fail­ure to meet the con­trac­tu­al agree­ments.