BLACK HISTORY MONTH: E. Wayne McDonald, CEO of the Caribbean Cultural Theatre (c) and staff at Black History Month Celebration at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Monday (February 25). The event was presented by Jamaica Information Service, Caribbean American Program for Empowerment (USA).,Inc, Sons and Daughters of Jamaica and the Caribbean Cultural Theatre under the distinguished patronage of the Consulate General of Jamaica.

New York City Council Member Leroy Comrie (center), joined by Council Member Oliver Koppell (3rd right), Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer (2nd right) and numerous senior advocates at a City Hall press conference on Friday, February 22 to call upon the Department For The Aging (DFTA) to slow-down the implementation of a new modernization proposal for citywide senior citizen centers and to consider a new course of action that would avoid cuts to the senior services budget, the closing of senior centers and re-examine the regionalization of services. Joining the elected officials are (l-r) Bobbi Sackman, Council of Senior Centers and Services; Linda M. Leest, Services Now for Adult Persons; and, Priscilla Maysonet, Stein Senior Center.

-Photo Credit: Ajamu Duane Stephenson, Etana, Cocoa Tea, and TJB Memeber Laverne Mattie at the 'Team Jamaica on the Road to Beijing' Reggae Charity Concert. Team Jamaica is off to a Roots rocking start on the road to the annual Penn Relays in Philadelphia this weekend, thanks to Reggae legend Cocoa Tea and his musical brethren who rocked Brooklyn College’s Walt Whitman Theater last Sunday for the ‘Team Jamaica on the Road to Beijing’ Reggae Charity Concert. Presented by Team Jamaica Bickle and VP Records, scores of Reggae fans were treated to the drum and bass sounds of the island, while raising much needed capital to fund Jamaica’s track and field athletes at Penn, and on their journey to dominate the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China this August.

KIDS STYLE FASHION ’08: Six of America’s Next Top Model (ANTM) contestants walked the children of The Bronx Charter School for Better Learning down the runway of the Eastwood Manor in the Bronx last Friday in front of a packed house of over 200 guests. The event, which was presented by the school as a fundraiser, featured Camille McDonald, former Miss Jamaica and contestant on cycle 2 of ANTM, as celebrity hostess who, with co-host, Tony Bent, MC’d the show with lively commentary on the fashions and features of approximately forty elementary school children who sashayed down the runway in urban, casual, formal, swim and sporty styles accompanied by Bianca Golden, Lisa Jackson, Kimberly Leemans, Allene Roberts and Heather Kuzmich (cycle 9 of ANTM). The evening started at 6 p.m. with cocktails and dinner in the Rose Ballroom of the Eastwood Manor that had been beautifully transformed for the Valentine’s holiday. The guests mingled and dined to the music of DJ Kevin.

WOMEN CELEBRATING WOMEN: (l-r) Soumia Chraibi, Feisal El-Bhoup, Congresswomam Yvette Diane Clarke and Shahata Mohamed at Women Celebrating Women 16th Anniversary elebrationns on April 6 at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, JFK International Airport, Queens.