The beautiful Valerie Tingling of Scotiabank's Systems Support Centre takes time from her duties at the ruby celebration for William 'Bill' Clarke's 40 years with Scotiabank, to pose for Something Extra last Saturday. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
The new Consular Corps dean and his team continue to make the round of courtesy calls; Scotiabank staff read for the little ones and the Rotarians came a-calling.
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Joylene Griffiths-Irving, director, public, corporate and government affairs at Scotiabank, reads to Paul Taylor during Read Across Jamaica Day at the picnic hosted by the bank at the Bustamante Hospital for Children yesterday. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer
From left: David Meadows, entrepreneur; Carole Owenby, team leader; Ken Wilson, assistant governor of Rotary District 7020; Daphne MacFarlane, coastal environmental scientist; Alexandra Rosado, aesthetician; and Kelly Weatherby, graphic designer, show keen interest as The Gleaner's research assistant, Judith Silvera, shows them how the archives work. The group, from Rotary District 6950 in Florida, is in the island for two weeks on a young professional group exchange programme organised by Rotary International. - Photo by Nashauna Drummond
Manager, Geddes Refrigeration Limited, Dane Lafayette, and director of the Zinc Shack, Howard Owen, sandwich promotions manager at the Margaritaville in Montego Bay, Dion Ebanks. The three were at the Groovy Grouper's Cinco de Mayo Full Moon Frolic party in Montego Bay last Saturday. - Photo by Denise Reid
The lovely Tara Quarrie (yep, you guessed it), Jamaican sprint legend Don Quarrie's daughter, mingles with Ali McNab, a Jamaican sports legend in his own right, at the prime minister's cocktail party for athletes last Saturday at the Hilton Kingston hotel. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Governor General Sir Kenneth Hall (centre) welcomes the new executive members of the Consular Corps of Jamaica as they paid a courtesy call on him at King's House on Monday. (From left) are Thalia Lyn, Vitus Evans, Clelia Barreto de Hunter, Chris Issa (the new dean of the corps), William Tavares-Finson, Madai Hernandez, Robert MacMillan and Keva Hylton. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Participants in the Go-Local Jamaica Schools Competition attempt to swallow Bigga soft drinks in one turn at the awards presentation, held on the Roof Garden, Gleaner Company, Kingston, last Friday. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
