CARIBBEAN MOVIE: Writer and director Alison Saunders-Franklyn (second from left) with some impressed viewers at the American Film Institute in Washington DC last year. From left: Chancellor of the University of the West Indies George Alleyne; former West Indies fast bowler, Wes Hall; Norleen Hoyte and husband Harold Hoyte, Editor Emeritus of the Nation Newspaper in Barbados; and Barbados' Ambassador to the United States, Michael King.

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.

-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 by Amir Akbar United States Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (2nd l) presents proclamations to (l-r) Tony Ryan, Winston Blake and Ken Williams, Jr on Saturday, (February 2) at the 3rd Annual Dennis Brown Memorial Scholarship and Awards Dinner held at the Ramada Adria Hotel in Bayside, New York. Clive Williams, publisher of Where It At magazine looks on.

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)