-Damion Reid Photo: Council Member Comrie (2nd left) congratulates the organizers of the recent Stop the Violence Gang Seminar: (l-r) August Martin High School principal, Anthony Cromer; 113th Precinct Deputy Inspector Kristel A. Johnson; and, Assistant Principal Nestor Payne.

-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.

Honorees with their award at the 25th anniversary of the Trey Whitfield School, April 24, 2008, at the El Caribe, in Brooklyn, New York. From left are Ms. Janie C. Whitney, Founder of The Trey Whitfield School, Ms. Sheron Joseph, Ms. Emily Jackson, Ms. Iris Griffith, Ms. Auguste St. Eloi, Ms. Ava Bradshaw, Ms. Veronica Jordan and Mr. A.B. Whitfield. Ms Bradshaw, from Guyana, was the first teacher that was hired when the school opened in 1983, with an enrollment of a surprising 283 students. Jordon and Griffith are also from Guyana while Eloi is from Haiti. Ms. Janie C. Whitney, vision and mission was simple, a faith and character based school with high academic achievement at an affordable cost to families. -Hayden Roger Celestin Photo

-Photo: Juliet Kaye At the Celebration of the Lunar New Year at York College, participants (L to R seated) President Marcia Keizs, Assemblyman William Scarborough, Shiang Liu of Councilman John Liu's office, and (standing) Shihliang Wang, Chinese Student Association, Faculty Advisor and Haixing Li, Chinese Student Association presi-dent. A Celebration of the Lunar New Year was held at York College on Feb. 7th, the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese Calendar and ends on the 15th day. The Chinese year 4706 began on Feb. 7th. President Marcia Keizs called it a celebration of Renewal. This is the year of the rat, a time of change, of looking for-ward at what the next 12 years will bring. Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. There were performances of the Lion Dance by the Dragon Style Kung Fu Company of Chinatown, their second year perform-ing at York.