Vybz Kartel and Mavado are to collaborate on a song shortly as one of the measures signalling an end to the Gully-Gaza feud.

The song is one of five initiatives coming out of a meeting with the artistes and Government officials yesterday at the Office of the Prime Minister.

Information Minister Daryl Vaz identified the others as a joint Christmas treat, a paint-out day of Gully-Gaza graffiti, a peace concert and the printing of T-shirts bearing the images of both artistes with a peace slogan written on it.

"The meeting was very amicable," said Vaz. "The issues that were raised have been noted from both sides and all have agreed to have this matter put behind us going forward from now through the Christmas season into the coming years."

Also at the meeting were National Security Minister Dwight Nelson, Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, head of the Peace Management Initiative, Bishop Herro Blair, chairman of the National Transformation Programme, Reverend Al Miller, among others.

"Me and Vybz we're not really enemies," Mavado told the meeting. "I never throw a stone at Vybz before and he never did the same to me. It is just about music but ... we have the fans out there and people take it to a different level, so me and Vybz will have to talk to these fans and do things to mend the situation."

Vybz Kartel and Mavado's only collaboration was in 2006, Happiest Days, when both were part of the same dancehall camp, Alliance. Vybz Kartel soon split from Alliance after what seemed to be a collective disagreement with everyone in the camp, including Bounty Killer, Mavado, Bling Dawg, Wayne Marshall and Busy Signal.

He soon started his own alliance, forming the Portmore Empire, and traded insulting lyrics with Mavado for the next three years. Over that period, Kartel established Gaza, a section of his boyhood community of Waterford in Portmore, and Mavado promoted Gully Side, in reference to an actual gully that runs through his community of Cassava Piece, St Andrew.

A clash last year at Sting, known as the Mecca for lyrical battles, was seen as the zenith of the rivalry. As the public and the deejays themselves debated who was victorious, the Gully/Gaza tension elevated to unprecedented proportions.

Bishop Blair stepped in a few weeks ago initiating talks between the two. It may have led to the appearance of Kartel and Mavado onstage at the same time at West Kingston Jamboree in Tivoli Gardens on Sunday. The two were amiable and traded musical banters.

"People need to realise that David and I have never had any personal animosity over the years. Sometimes people take things out of context, especially (those with) impressionable minds," said Kartel.

Yesterday's meeting was the second such between both artistes. In February 2007, then Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mark Shields, and Kimani Robinson, former principal of RE TV, held a press conference at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel with both deejays. At that press conference Vybz Kartel said, "This is not a publicity stunt. Wi si seh di ting all a reach inna di schools an' it a go too far suh we haffi do sum'n."