Left: Desmond Fenton and Vivienne Gayle only have eyes for each other. Right: Christopher Townsend and Sandra Ragnatt are perfectly matched on the dance floor.

WESTERN BUREAU:

Showing an extensive knowledge of music, a handpicked group of professional women gave of their talent by spinning music for a worthy cause on Saturday night. The venue was The Deck and the reason was 29-year-old Melissa Latchman, of Olympic Gardens in Kingston, who is stricken with kidney disease.

Organised by the Kiwanis Club of West St Andrew, part proceeds from the event, branded 'Women at the Control', will also aid other Kiwanis charities.

The much-publicised fundraiser had patrons seated at the bar at the venue from as early as 9 p.m., and when the first selector, attorney-at-law Aloun Assamba, drew from her collection, it signalled the start to a night called 'Bashment Style'. Her half-hour stint was followed by Del Crooks, who rocked the party, taking dancers down memory lane and into the era of the '80s and contemporary dancehall.

Cool soul

The music kept on coming from wine connoisseur Marilyn Bennett and Dorothy Hobson who had the lovers in the house stepping to some cool soul and music from the '60s.

This writer's opening selection of Tina Turner's Simply the Best, brought the entire venue to its knees.

Sports journalist Carole Beckford took over the turntable and kept it 'jiggy'. At 1:30 a.m. Marketing Executive Millicent Lynch began with Rampin' Shop and from then on it was no joke with the latest dancehall hits, 'Gully' and 'Gaza'.

Janet.silvera@gleanerjm.com

Robert Holdsworth dances the night away with Jacqueline Headley at 'Women at The Control' last Saturday night at The Deck in New Kingston.

There's nothing to keep Moveta Munro (left) and Carlene Sinclair off the dance floor. - photos by Janet Silvera

Always the life of a party, Nurma James does it solo.

Carl Spence and Carolee Johnson rent their own tiles and refuse to stop dancing all night.

Ronnie Young (right) and Ian Bruce remain fixtures at the bar.

Suzette Dawkins (left) and Delorey Parnell certainly look fabulous!<

Digicel's Jacqueline Burrell-Clarke and her husband, Lennox, are having a whale of a time.