INVESTIGATORS from the Major Investigation Taskforce (MIT) this evening charged dancehall deejay Vybz Kartel with murder, conspiracy to murder and illegal possession of firearm.

A news release from the police said that the charges against the deejay, whose real name is Adijah Palmer, were made following the conduct of an interview this afternoon by detectives from the MIT in the presence of his attorneys.

“The allegation is that on Monday, July 11, 2011, Palmer, along with other men, conspired to murder Barrington Burton o/c ‘Bossie’, a 27-year-old businessman/promoter of a Gregory Park address in St Catherine. Burton was murdered while he was standing with friends along Walkers Avenue in Gregory Park,” the police release said.

The preliminary hearing will take place tomorrow at the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court.