-JIS/NY Photo- Deputy Consul General of Jamaica in NY, Lisa B. Smart and Vincent Heath, co-chair of Team Jamaica Bickle- Philadelphia Organizing Committee, discuss the upcoming reggae concert on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 7pm, at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts,Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY during last week’s press briefing/reception at the offices of Ruder Finn Agency, 301 Second Avenue, Manhattan. The concert event dubbed “Team Jamaica Bickle on the Road to Beijing”, which will be staged under the patronage of Jamaica’s newly appointed Ambassador to the USA, His Excellency Anthony Johnson, will benefit Jamaica’s student/athletes attending the April 24-26, 2008 Penn Relays Carnival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the national senior team to the Games of the 29th Olympiad in Beijing, China, from August 8-28, this year. In his brief to the media, TJB Founder Irwine Clare, Sr., said that the April 20 event which is being supported by the VP Records Family, will be more than just a concert event.

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Photo:Juliet Kaye NYS Committeewoman Joan Flowers congratulated the honorees at the 34th Annual Achievement Awards of the Guardians Association of the NYC Police Dept. presenting them with Citations. (L to R) Robert T. Hood, 1st VP. Victor Swinton, Pres., Honoree Dorita Clarke, NYS Committeewoman Joan Flowers, Honoree Judge Kenneth Holder, Valerie Portin, 2nd VP. Yuseff Hamm, Correspondent. Secretary.

COMMUNITY AWARDS: (Standing l-r) Desmond Green, director of Caribbean Affairs, Universal Peace Federation, NY, Dexter McKenzie, President, Provident Clinical Society, Dennis Hawthorne, CEO of Dennis Shipping Company, Robert "Bob" C. Desouza, CEO, Trans-Continental Express Shippers, Ian Forrest, communicator and honoree, Mathieu Eugene, New York City Council Member; Jamaica's Acting Consul General to New York, Lincoln Downer, Bishop Cecil G. Riley of Freedom Hall Church of God and Harry Bhoorasingh, Manager of Jamaica National Overseas, NY with honorees (seated l-r) Hope Morris representing Ken Williams, veteran broadcast; Karlene Gordon, Director of the Caribbean American Program for Empowerment; Annette M. Nelson, stage manager, Hyacinth E. Spence, community activist and Sadie Aarons-Campbell, President of the Jamaica Progressive League, Inc who were honoured at Black History Month Celebration at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Monday, (February 25)