Here are pictorial highlights of events you might have missed this week.

Published: Saturday | July 25, 2009



Some of the contestants in this year's Miss Jamaica World 2009 pageant relax at Spartan Health Club, Lady Musgrave Road, last week Saturday. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer

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Right: Steve Dunn, managing director of Dunn's Electrical 'The Power People', poses with his pageant representative, Lesa-Gayle Wee Tom, one of the favourites who will be vying for the Miss Jamaica World 2009 crown on August 22, at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel.

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Below: First Lady Michelle Obama smiles as she arrives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 24, to speak during the annual National Design Awards. The first lady was reported elsewhere as having cut her hair but, as you can see, it was only pinned up, she still has the same length!


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Portia Simpson Miller (left) shares the spotlight with Elaine Bryan at last week Friday's National Association of Jamaican and Supportive Organisations (NAJASO) function in Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs Simpson Miller received a plaque from NAJASO at the event.

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Christopher Wood Jr (left) and Adam Vaz, two of the children of Ann Marie and Daryl Vaz, who were in parliament on Wednesday to hear daddy's speech.

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The children came out for daddy Daryl Vaz's maiden speech in Wednesday's sectoral debate on Wednesday. They are from left: Amanda Vaz, Victoria Vaz and Gabrielle Wood.