The Jamaican in-flight crew members of JetBlue Airways took time out for a photo ceremony marking the airline's inaugural flight to Montego Bay, at the Sangster International Airport on Tursday. From left are: Austin Williams, Christine Chang, Arlene Daley, general manager, JetBlue, Montego Bay Airport; Dean Burns, Diana O'Gilvie and Paul Whyte, flight attendants. - Photo by Noel Thompson
Janice McDonald (right), Miss Brooks Bakery, Savanna-la-Mar, presents a potted plant to a senior citizen at the St Matthews Anglican Church in Allman Town. Janice was one of the Miss Teen Jamaica finalists who attended the service with their mothers and contest organisers. The girls presented gifts to 16 of the oldest mothers at the service. - contributed
Professor Frederick Hickling (left), his wife, Dr Hilary Hickling, and son Akindele Hickling. Professor Hickling last week received the American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Fellow Award for his more than 32 years of hard work in psychiatry, locally and internationally. He is the only recipient of this honour from the Caribbean region in the close to 200-year history of the organisation. He achieved demonstrable excellence in seven of eight categories assessed, including academia, clinical work, not-for-profit work and publication. The eighth category is linked to North American residency status and was, therefore, not applicable. The ceremony took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, on May 19 at the APA Convocation Ceremony of Distinguished Fellows.- Contributed
From left: Judith Silvera, Gregory Bryan and wife, Elaine, celebrate the latters receipt of the Sandy Springs, Georgia, leadership certificate, following a year-long course of study with 27 other participants. Bryan, a Jamaican resident in the United States of America, is a Flair columnist and high-school counsellor. She is the first non-Atlanta native to be recruited for the programme in Sandy Springs. - Contributed
In attendance at the event in honour of Professor Hickiling are from left: Dr Eliot Sorel, forensic psychiatrist and geriatric psychiatrist; Dr Annelle Primm, director of minority and national affairs for the American Psychiatric Association, associate professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Dr Carl Bell, president and chief executive officer, Community Mental Health Council and Foundation and director of public and community psychiatry/clinical professor of psychiatry and public health, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Professor Fred Hiclking. - Contributed