Jamaica Night party
published:
Sunday | August 10, 2008
Janet Silvera, Senior Gleaner Writer
Incoming Kiwanian Lt Governor for Division 25, Oliver Lotha, proclaiming his nationality at the Jamaica Party on Thursday night, during the 91st Eastern Canada and the Caribbean Conference in Niagara Falls, Canada. - PHOTOS BY Janet Silvera
Curlene Andrade, of the Kiwanis Club of New Kingston, decked out in the national colours and dancing up a storm.
Niagara Falls, Canada:
The most-anticipated event at each Kiwanis Eastern Canada and the Caribbean Convention is the annual Jamaica Night Party.
Not known to disappoint the loyal following, last Thursday night the Kiwanian event planning extraordinaires (Wray and Nephew's Arlene Linton, Jam Venture's Dollis Campbell and quantity surveyor, Llewellyn Allen), transformed the Our Lady of Peace Hall in Niagara Falls, Canada. Over 300 persons turned out for jerked pork and chicken, fried dumplings, hard-dough bread and Leighton McKnight's music.
DANCING FEVER
With 80 Kiwanians travelling from Jamaica for this year's conference, joining over 700 service-oriented leaders from Canada and the rest of the Caribbean, McKnight took dancing feet through the evolution of soca, starting with Passion, and by the time he got to Allison Hind's Roll it Gal, the party lovers were rolling.
A musicologist of no mean order, the renowned financial guru drew from a compilation of Jamaican celebration tunes heralded by The Gaylads, Alton Ellis, Heptones and The Caledonians, who had the waistlines and legs moving to oldies like My Jamaican Girl and Party Time.
Taking a stroll down Motown lane, McKnight slowly moved into The Supremes, Stevie Wonder and Culture Club, showing immense versatility, before catering to the need of lovers in the house with The Chilites, Temptations and Earth, Wind and Fire.
At midnight, in advance of Canadian authorities closing down another Jamaica Night in their province, McKnight bade the party people au revoir.
Incoming Kiwanian Governor of Eastern Canada and the Caribbean, Sheron Cameron Dunn (right), and Lloyd Distant Sr.
Kiwanian-at-large, Alex Cohall (right) and his wife Winsome dancing the night away.
Kiwanians Anthea Domville of Constant Spring and Ralston Nunez of Kingston clubs moving to Dennis Brown's 'Love and Hate'.
Two heads are better than one; just ask Kiwanian Daphne Innerarity (right) and former governor, Surinamese Hazel Brandon.
