'Rumours dem Spreading' on Gregory Isaacs?

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SINCE the start of the month speculations have been swirling about Gregory Isaac's health, but things intensified yesterday when rumours began spreading via the Internet that the 'Cool Ruler', had died.

"I've been hearing the same thing also from all over the globe and I don't know where all these information are coming from," Copeland Forbes, Isaacs' road manager, responded in an e-mail sent to the media last night.

"I've received e-mails from quite a lot of promoters and well-wishers from all over the world who are very concerned," he added.

"The facts are, he is in the UK doing some medical tests. As you all know, he had some problems with his legs from last year which resulted in cancellation of tours, and in the last 12 months he had a very hectic year travelling all over the globe doing performances," Forbes explained.

However, Forbes did admit that Isaacs had to cancel a festival in Guadeloupe because of severe pains and was replaced on the bill by Marcia Griffiths. "We were suppose to go to Guadeloupe, French West Indies for a festival performance, but while we were in London the pain in his legs started again and it was swollen, and it caused him severe pains whenever he tried to walk on it. The pains were so severe that we had to cancel him off the Guadeloupe festival and Marcia Griffiths was brought in to fill in for his absence," said Forbes.

"So since he was in London where he had started his medical tests from last year when the problems with his legs started, he decided that he would stay in London and get all his medical tests done... and contrary to what has been going around, he's not in a hospital, he's staying with Linda Smith, our UK representative," he added.

Efforts to reach Linda Smith were unsuccessful as calls to her telephone went to voicemail.

BY BASIL WALTERS Observer staff reporter