Jamaican Police Apologize to Bono And Company
Just in case you've had your head in the sand for about
two weeks, we thought we'd reassure you that Bono, Island Records founder Chris
Blackwell and Jimmy Buffett all received official apologies from the Jamaican
Government after the Jamaican gendarmes attempted to shoot down Chris
Blackwell's plane last January. The plane was carrying Blackwell, Buffett, and
Bono and his family among others. The authorities thought that the airborne
party were drug-smugglers. The incident occurred when the celebs were returning
from a Jamaican holiday at Island prexy, Chris Blackwell's sumptuous digs. The
Jamaican police department shot at their plane after mistaking them for
smugglers. The incident was cleared up, but that didn't minimize the fact that
the unwilling participants felt like they were in a Jimmy Cliff movie. Jimmy
Buffett, never someone to let an opportunity slip away, turned the mishap into
a song, that he's titled "Jamaica Mistaica.