The Tribune

By SANCHESKA DORSETT

Tribune Staff Reporter

sdorsett@tribunemedia.net

JAMAICAN reggae star Jah Cure yesterday blamed the Atlantis resort for not intervening and stopping a brawl between some “drunk Bahamians” which he said caused him to be “ridiculed internationally”.

At a press conference on Monday, Jah Cure, whose real name is Siccature Alcock, denied that he was involved in the fight, which was captured on video and shared thousands of times on social media.

In fact, Jah Cure said he was trying to “be a peacemaker and saviour” and stop the fight when he was attacked by a drunk man, causing him to “fall” on the ground and appear to be unconscious. He also denied that he was “fighting over a married woman,” or was fighting with his sound engineer or a concert promoter, as was speculated on social media.

Instead, Jah Cure claimed that he was breaking up a fight between a drunk man and one of his friends, after the drunk man allegedly grabbed a woman’s “bottom” who was with a man in his entourage.

Jah Cure said if the security officers at the Atlantis resort had “done their job” instead of allegedly “pulling out their phones to record,” the entire situation could have been avoided. He said his lawyers have drafted a letter to the head of the Atlantis security team and the matter will be handled the “proper way.” He has also requested that the person who videotaped the encounter be “dealt with” accordingly.

The Tribune contacted the resort, but calls to officials were not returned up to press time. Atlantis is reported to be investigating the matter.

“There was no security at the Atlantis hotel that came to help which is a big negligence,” Jah Cure said at a press conference on Monday.

“Because there was no security, I, Jah Cure, had to take up the job as the security, which Atlantis needs to pay me for because it bring me into a situation and ridicule me in a certain way and have me getting discriminated all over the world because someone supposed to be doing their job and not have their device in the Atlantis using it to make the video and create a lot of negative and lies...

“But on the negligence of the Atlantis. . . if their security wasn’t trying to record this and they was doing their job, Jah Cure would not have been in this mess. So I end up doing the Atlantis security guard work by parting this. I am an artist that came here for a show, I am not a referee, I am not a fight parter,” he added.

“My lawyer is addressing it, they are sending a letter to the head of security over there. We are approaching everything properly because this created such a bad energy for me.”

The singer also stressed that he was not injured during the fight and at no time was he knocked unconscious.

“I was so shame that I get my nice shirt tear off trying to be a peacemaker that I fell on the ground for two seconds and I stay there. Even when my friends come to take me up I say ‘leave me alone’. I didn’t want to get my face hurt, I didn’t want to get punch, I have no blows on my body. Because people see my lying on the ground and they say ‘Oh My God he is mashed up’ listen to me, it is not like that,” he said.

“I sing of love and peace, I am not a warmonger, therefore I was not in a fight and I wasn’t fighting, I did not get knocked down, I didn’t get beat up by someone for their wife, or by the promoter or by the engineer.”

In the video of the fight circulating online, a woman was seen being thrown to the ground as one of the men who she tried to stop from fighting is pushed down on top of her. She later shrieks as another man in a white shirt is also pushed onto the ground on top of her. She continues to try to stop the fight, trying to physically restrain the men as she best she could.

For the majority of the video, Jah Cure could be seen with his arms outstretched, trying to quell the confrontation along with another man wearing a green shirt.

The artist is later seen trying to evade a barrage of blows from another man near the hotel’s automatic sliding doors, who strikes at him relentlessly. Towards the end of the video, numerous persons, possibly hotel officials, could be seen standing in one of the doorways to the outside of the hotel, with Jah Cure seemingly lying unconscious at their feet.

At least two men attempt to tend to Jah Cure, asking the singer if he was okay. However, it is unclear from the video if the singer responded to their words or if he was conscious.

The artist was in the country for a concert on Saturday.