THE Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) is calling on the relevant authorities to ban two songs, “Kick in She Back Door” and “Prescription” from all airwaves in Guyana, and from playing in minibuses and music carts as well, because, according to the commission, the songs contain lyrics which promote violence against women. In a press briefing yesterday, in the boardroom of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), Commissioner Nicole Cole, who represents cultural and ethnic groups in the WGEC, said that the song “Kick in she back door” by Burning Flames out of Antigua is promoting the rape and buggery of women.

Cole noted that this song won the Antigua Road March in 2012, but was subsequently banned from playing on airwaves in that country. However, she said that it is making waves in Grenada and has recently also become very popular in Guyana.
She related that the song begins with a woman screaming, and quoted the lyrics as saying “the bedroom window lock and the kitchen window lock, and what must you do? Kick in she back door, bruk it in, bruk it in, bruk it in.”
She further noted that Burning Flames is set to perform on Regional Night of the Jamzone Summer Break in August, and reiterated that the WGEC is saying no to such a song being aired, played and gyrated to.
“There are women who are gyrating to the songs; unfortunately most of them don’t listen to the lyrics of the song. But the song is very disrespectful, despicable, repugnant and downright disgusting to be played on our airwaves,” she asserted.
Cole stressed that “Kick in she back door” is a violation of women’s rights and cannot be condoned on local airwaves. As such, she said the commission is calling on the relevant authorities to ban, and further, that the song is not performed in Guyana.
Meanwhile, the WGEC is also calling for Ravi B’s “Prescription” to be banned. According to Cole, the song by the popular Trinidadian Chutney singer encourages substance abuse with its lyrics, “the doctor give me a prescription, one bottle ah rum a day, two bottle ah rum a day, three bottle ah rum a day.”
She pointed out that a huge percentage of cases of gender based violence, and particularly violence against women, occur in instances of substance abuse.
Hence, she said that the Media Monitoring Committee of the WGEC is registering its vehement protest and is calling for this song to be removed from the airwaves, minibuses and music carts, because “that prescription is a recipe for disaster.”