Last week was very busy on the social scene. Jamaicans at home and abroad partied like rock stars and we have highlights you may have missed.

He stands at over six feet and is very charming too. GoodWorks International Consulting's head honcho, Wallace Ford, shares a laugh with Cheryl Coley of Medgar Evers College, at last Monday night's American Foundation for the University of the West Indies gala awards function, held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.

A.J. Brown performed at Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival on opening night, while his paintings were on display on the grounds. Here he shows Donna Donaldson his other talent. - Photo by Janet Silvera

From left: Yvette Harris, wife of the vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Professor Rex Nettleford and Lady George Alleyene are in a jovial mood at the American Foundation of the UWI gala and awards function, held in New York last Monday night. - Photos by Barbara Ellington

Digicel customer relations manager, Tricia Thompson, hangs out with Clive Mullings, minister of energy, mining and telecommunications, at the Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in Montego Bay. - Contributed

Tracy (centre) and David Smith, founder of Olint TCI, the presenting sponsor of the Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, hang out in their skybox with entertainer Jill Scott at The Aqueduct in Rose Hall, Montego Bay, on the opening night of the festival. - Contributed

Technical director for national football, Dr. René Simoes (right), greets veteran videographer José Walton at Thursday night's Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival. - Photo by Adrian Frater

From left: Asafa Powell, Brian Stephenson - general manager, Issa Transport Group, Edmund Bartlett - minister of tourism, Olive McNaughton - sales and marketing manager, Eurostar, Gunther Holtorf - Round the World Tour adventurer, and Paul Issa of Issa Transport Group, share in the festivities at Eurostar Motors at South Camp Road, last Wednesday. - Contributed