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Agent Sasco
Dancehall artist Agent Sasco, one of Jamaica’s most potent lyricists, says 15 years after shelving the stage name ‘Assassin’, a moniker bestowed on him during his days as a student at Camperdown High School in Kingston, he is satisfied that his decision was the right choice.
He made his comments during an interview on Radio Jamaica’s Two Live Crew recently. According to the artist, whose given name is Jeffrey Campbell, the name ‘Assassin’ which he got as a result of lyrically crushing his schoolmates in Dancehall clashing competitions in high school, over time, had grown to be somewhat problematic.
It seems COVID-19 concerns have overshadowed public shock over the predicament of George Williams, the 20-year-old youth who was believed to be mentally ill at the time of his arrest in 1970 and held on remand, for 50 years, for allegedly killing another man. His story surfaced following a similar report in The Bahamas in 2003 about Atain Takitota.
Takitota is said to be a Japanese man who the Bahamian authorities held in prison for eight years and two months without a court hearing because of his inability to reveal his identity to the police, due to his passport being stolen and him having amnesia. Although the state is said to have compensated Takitota, these miscarriage-of- justice cases that occasionally receive media attention raise concerns about what exactly takes place behind ‘correctional’ bars and whether, as nations with vision for 2030, we are learning from our blunders.