Belmopan, Belize 27 October (Belizean.com) Jamal "Shyne" Barrow is being deported back to his homeland Belize on Wednesday after serving almost nine years in jail for his role in a shooting in New York that involved his then mentor Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jennifer Lopez.Media reports monitored in Belize confirm that the former Bad Boyz rapper is being deported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.). Shyne's family has enlisted the services of Harvard Law Professor and President Obama insider Professor Charles Ogletree to try and secure a pardon from New York Governor David Paterson to allow the rapper to re-inter the U.S.
Under U.S. law, convicted felons are deported to their country of origin following the end of the sentence. Jamal "Shyne" Barrow was born and raised in Belize but moved to Flatbush, New York as a teenager but never gained U.S. citizenship,
A television station controlled by the ruling United Democratic Party of Prime Minister Dean Barrow who is Jamal's father, reported today that the 31 year old rapper has been expelled from the U.S. and will arrive in Belize on Wednesday via a Continental Airlines flight from Houston.
The station reports that Jamal's dad Prime Minister Barrow and his uncle Michael Finnegan (born Michael Myvett) will be on hand to receive Shyne at the Belize City airport. Mr. Finnegan, a close associate of the Prime Minister of Belize and member of the Belize Cabinet responsible for housing, has built an extension to his house in Belize City for Jamal. Mr. Finnegan raised Jamal in Belize before his emigration to the U.S.
One Belize radio station is reporting that rather than immediately attempting to emigrate to Europe to re-start his rapping career, Shyne will now try to utilise his Belize passport to move to a Caribbean country such as Jamaica to use as a base for re-igniting his recording career.
Shyne's last album - Godfather - Buried Alive, was released in 2004 while he was incarcerated, The Def Jam album included 13 tracks, 12 of which were previously recorded vocals, and one recorded over the phone from jail.
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