The Christmas spirit is everywhere and we are right there to capture it all.

The Gleaner's Janet Silvera dances with Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett at the Tourism Partnership reception at the Hilton Kingston on Monday. - Colin Hamilton/Freelance Photographer

Suzanne Bowen cuts the ribbon to open the Scotiabank Gingerbread house in Emancipation Park. The house will host children free of cost throughout the season to make Christmas cards, hear stories and enjoy face painting and balloon art. With her is husband and the bank's president and CEO, Bruce Bowen. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

Alice Hyde (centre), marketing manager of Caribbean Cement Company Limited, chats with Bervie Crooks (left) and Janet Barrett, at the Caribbean Cement Company's annual awards ceremony at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel last Thursday. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

Make-up artist Anne Brooks (second left), of Options Cosmetics in Montego Bay, applies make-up to Collette Hall, during a special promotion put on by Bailey's Rum Cream, at MegaMart, at the Fairview Shopping Centre in St James last Saturday. Bailey's promotion girls Simone Roxburgh (left) and Kerry Ann Walton look on. - Photo by Noel Thompson

From left: Arman International's Tony Azad, Caribbean Producers Jamaica Limited's Lorraine Yapp, and Wexford Hotel's Delton Clayton make a cosy threesome at the CPJ's customer appreciation day function last Friday at the plant in Freeport, Montego Bay. - Photo by Janet Silvera

Major Allen Satterlee (second left), divisional commander of the Salvation Army, accepts an envelope from 10-year-old Tai Smith, as 30 cyclists, representing a number of clubs in St James embarked on an expedition between Hanover and St James, last Saturday). Looking on are Murli Thadhani (left), chairman of the army's advisory committee, Dr Barbara Grandison (centre) and Noel Whyte, a board member. - Photo by Noel Thompson