Bajan blogger slams Jamaican dancers - says some moves showing dancehall in bad light

A Bajan-Canadian blogger says she has been receiving death threats since she offered to send two females back to school to sit Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations.

Carla Babb, popularly known as 'Babbzy at Large', recently posted a video on Instagram with popular dancer DaniiBoo dancing in the streets.

The caption on the post read: "What if I said I will give 2 of you the same money you get to do this to STOP doing this and I send you to finish your CXC's.... would you accept that challenge??? I'm dead serious... this cannot be the answer for life.... when you are 40 what will you do???"

Babbzy said persons have responded to her post with hostility. "Dem say mi fi stop diss Jamaicans," she told THE WEEKEND STAR.

Babbzy said that the post was not directed at any dancehall queen, especially DaniiBoo.

"The post is saying that if you are doing this because you feel like you have to, because you don't have an education, you didn't finish school, I would pay you the money that the promoters would be paying you and send you back to school so that you could finish school," she insisted.

Babbzy stressed that education is important for personal development.

"The more educated you are, the more chance you have at being independent and not being caught in the cycle of abuse," she said.

She also told THE WEEKEND STAR that she would never make an assumption that women dancing like that are uneducated.

"I don't know if dancehall queens are educated or not. I can't make any conclusion to that magnitude," she said.

But she said many persons across the world who she interacts with shun that type of dancing and said it is giving dancehall a very negative image.

"Rolling around on the asphalt, and men standing on their back and jumping up and down, to me that is not dancing and I don't gravitate to that," Babbzy said.

"Carlene, the dancehall queen, never danced like that and she was seen as a gracious, prestigious woman around the world, and that's what really made a lot of women around the world start idolising dancehall music outside of Jamaica," she added.