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BY RICHARD JOHNSON Observer senior reporter johnsonr@jamaicaobserver.com  Monday, March 26, 2018 INCARCERATED reggae singer Buju Banton will do his first concert, upon release from prison, in Trinidad and Tobago. The announcement came yesterday from Jodian Ebanks, a member of the singer's marketing team, at a media briefing held during the Love and Harmony Cruise aboard the  Celebrity Summit  vessel. Buju Banton According to Ebanks, the concert will be held on April 22, 2019. The venue was not disclosed. She said a concert is scheduled for Jamaica at a later date. “Buju is very excited about being on the road again. Jamaica is very special to him and he wants to be able to give his home country the type of concert it deserves,” said Ebanks. “Trinidad was chosen as the dates, travel schedules, and all the other variables all came together for that time of year and was the best fit,” she continued. Jamaica Observer  was informed that some of ...

Albert Thompson A Jamaican man in the United Kingdom is being refused treatment for prostate cancer despite living there for more than 40 years, Britain's  Guardian newspaper has reported. The newspaper report names the man as Albert Thompson, 63, and said he has not been receiving the radiotherapy treatment he needs because he has been unable to provide officials with sufficient documentary evidence that he has lived in the UK continuously since arriving from Jamaica as a teenager in 1973. Thompson, the  Guardian  said, was told to provide the evidence or pay £54,000 for his treatment. Britain's Prime Minister Teresa May, in a letter to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who brought the situation to her attention, said: “No urgent treatment should ever be withheld or delayed by the NHS regardless of ability of willingness to pay.” The  Guardian  reported that regulations introduced last October require hospitals to check patients' paperwork, i...