Dawn Muirhead, managing editor of Auto Classics and Business Magazine, takes her colleagues down memory lane at the Hilton Kingston Jamaica's media appreciation party. - photos by Janet Silvera

WESTERN BUREAU:

The stresses of meeting deadlines, editing and editorial meetings were replaced with 'flip-flop' attitudes last Thursday as the Hilton Kingston Jamaica liberated media practitioners by allowing them to feel the hotel's warmth.

The media practitioners who arrived at the hotel's annual media appreciation luncheon were greeted by staff with flip-flop slippers in hand to replace their work shoes.

Themed 'Back in Black', the Hilton's general manager, Frank Rosheuvel, and his 'how-to-throw-a-party-in-the-middle-of-the-day' team, led by Claudette Kenlock and Dave Hines, had a lot up their sleeves when they 'forced' everyone entering the room to relax, unwind and let down their hair while being treated to a foot massage.

With three expert masseuses in the room, there was no need to remind those in attendance that that was exactly what the Hilton 'doctors' had ordered.

All soles reunited with the heavens and combined with a bag full of laughter, great entertainment and scrumptious food. The afternoon was charged with electricity, camaraderie and excitement.

Eleven years and still going strong, there was a lot that the Hilton had to celebrate, most significant was its success of its KIDS (Kindness In Donations and Services) programme in the inner-city communities.

Noticeable were the energetic communications specialist, Fae Ellington, RJR Communication Group's Adrian St. Louis and a footloose Kay Osborne; Sunday Herald's Nicola Cunningham Williams who paid tribute to the king of pop, Michael Jackson, and Alysia Moulton-White.

Others in attendance included birthday girl Ingrid Card, Yvonne Wilks, Kevin Jackson, Irene Graham, Sharon Parris-Chambers, Clifford DaCosta and Michael Edwards.

Janet.silvera@gleanerjm.com

Claudette Kenlock (left), director of sales and marketing, Hilton Kingston Jamaica, and Ilia Gayle (centre), sales agent, surprised birthday girl Ingrid Card, with a mini cheese cake at the Back in Black media luncheon last Thursday.

The effervescent Fae Ellington dances with Frank Rosheuvel, general manager of the Hilton Kingston Jamaica hotel.

Television Jamaica's Kay Osborne (left) shares a word with Jamaica News Network's Yvonne Wilks.