{"id":737682,"date":"2022-01-06T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/popcaan-pleads-for-direct-flight-from-jamaica-to-ghana\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:23:26","slug":"popcaan-pleads-for-direct-flight-from-jamaica-to-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/popcaan-pleads-for-direct-flight-from-jamaica-to-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Popcaan pleads for direct flight from Jamaica to Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Thursday,  6 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/13280702.295.jpg\" alt=\"Popcaan wants direct flights from Ghana to Jamaica\" title=\"Popcaan wants direct flights from Ghana to Jamaica\" width=\"295\" height=\"369\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Popcaan wants direct flights from Ghana to Jamaica<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>Popcaan party\u2019s in Ghana<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Popcaan buys a house in Ghana at US$5.5 million<\/p>\n<p>Popcaan spends US$100,000 on Cheddar&#8217;s champagne at Gatsby night event<\/p>\n<p>Jamaican dancehall artiste Popcaan has appealed to the government of Jamaica and Ghana under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to set up a direct flight from Jamaica to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy new year everyone, to the government of Ghana and Jamaica, we need a straight flight from Jamaica to Ghana!!! Make it happen please, thanks in advance\u201d, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Hugh Sutherland, known professionally as Popcaan who has put his plea across to the two governments on Twitter owns a home in Ghana which he acquired at US$5.5 million in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The artiste\u2019s desire to root himself in Ghana is believed to stem from the government\u2019s \u2018Beyond the Return\u2019 agenda which aimed at encouraging Africans in the diaspora to invest in the country to make it a better place.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Jamaican celebrated his Christmas holidays in Ghana spending US$100,000 at the Gatsby Gala Night, an elite party organised by millionaire, Nana Kwame Bediako which had in attendance many affluent people in the entertainment world.<\/p>\n<p>Popcaan, who has over the years endeared himself to Ghana and promises to have his next album launch here. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Happy new year everyone???????? to the government of ghana and Jamaica, we need a straight flight from Jamaica to ghana!!! Make it happen please???????????????????????? thanks in advance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Popcaan (@PopcaanMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopcaanMusic\/status\/1478814953456996356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Thursday, 6 January 2022 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2022-01-06 Popcaan wants direct flights from Ghana to Jamaica Popcaan party\u2019s in Ghana Popcaan buys a house in Ghana at US$5.5 million Popcaan spends US$100,000 on Cheddar&#8217;s champagne at Gatsby night event Jamaican dancehall artiste Popcaan has appealed to the government of Jamaica and Ghana under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}