The calendar event of the year, the annual Pineapple Ball, took over the city of Montego Bay on Saturday, while Jamaicans invaded New York to celebrate with former United States Ambassador to Jamaica Brenda LaGrange Johnson.

When Alison Antrobus designs buildings, you are forced to look twice; when she entered the Pineapple Ball at The Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall last Saturday night, she turned every head in the room. - photos by Janet Silvera

Former United States ambassadors to Jamaica Sue Cobb (left) and Brenda LaGrange Johnson (right) pose for Something Extra with Mexican Ambassador Leonora Rueda at the Core Club, in Manhattan last Saturday night, during a reception to celebrate Ambassador Johnson receiving this year's humanitarian award at tonight's annual American Friends of Jamaica Hummingbird Gala at The Plaza hotel in New York. - photo by Barbara Ellington

Michael Jackson fans Fernanda Hofer, Claudia Guzman and Haixara Bowen took over the dance floor at the ball when One Third performed their favourites from the late King of Pop.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding escorts Olympic and World Championships silver medallist Kerron Stewart into the Golden Reception for Jamaica's World Championships athletics team at Jamaica House last Friday. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer