Co-owners of The Elegant Rose Hall, Nowrang Balgobin (1st l) and Vasistha Ramsamugh (4th l) pose with Geneive Brown-Metzger, consul general of Jamaica to New York (2rd l) and Anthony Johnson, Jamaica's ambassador to the United States at a recent welcome party held at the Hall, the Bronx in honor of the ambassadors.

-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.

CARIBBEAN LIFESTYLE TV MOVES TO NEW SUNDAY TIME SLOT: Since Sunday, March 16 2008, Caribbean Lifestyle TV (CLM TV) the popular one hour personality interview TV program which airs weekly on channel 73, WNYC TV in the Bronx , Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island and Queens moves to a new time slot - 11:30 am - 12:30 pm. In photo (l-r) CLM TV host Irwine Clare; Yendi Phillipps, Miss Jamaica World 2007; Clement Hume, co-producer, CLM TV; Anthony Turner, co-producer CLM TV and Andrea Bullens, co-producer CLM TV.

Actor and ambassador, Harry Belafonte, was the keynote speaker at the Commemoration of The International Day of Remembrances of the Victims of Slave and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade at the Uited Nations Headquarters in New York on Tuesday March 25, 2008. He took time out to greet the City South Steel band, which performed at the event. (Photo: Hayden Roger Celestin)