Innovative Ideas duo Carmen Patterson (second left) and Christine Bell (second right) share the lens with Rohan Halsall (left,) marketing coordinator of Restaurants of Jamaica and Murk Maddock, franchise business manager for Pizza Hut International. - PHOTOS BY Winston Sill
Some things are a staple at Christmas and Innovative Ideas' Christmas soirée is one of them.
So this year, the team welcomed one and all to its new home inside the OGM Building on Ardenne Road. The spacious location fits in quite nicely with the company's sophisticated business style. Glen 'Titus' Campbell was again the DJ and showed his repertoire of groovy music. He even dedicated a segment to the late Michael Jackson. The Pantry Caterers, with the choice of Italian or Jamaican cuisine, had something for everybody, while products from Innovative Ideas clients (like the St Mary's Banana Chips and Pizza Hut's pizza bites) kept everybody munching.
Performance poetry was the entertainment theme this year and Dr Michael Abrahams 'opened the innings' quite nicely with his Year In Review, touching everything from the smelly fertiliser to the Montego Bay hijacking.
He then paid tribute to Jackson before a parody of Gregory Isaacs' Night Nurse, a piece called Right Nurse, which praises and lampoons Edith Allwood-Anderson. And then Joan Andrea-Hutchinson took guests down memory lane (through her new book Kin Teet Kibba Heart Bun), recalling the good old days of dandy-shandy, bolo slush and gigs.
Guests also included: Duncan Stewart, Kent LaCroix, Marjorie Boroughs, Pastor Sam McCook, Wyvolyn Gager, Robert Gregory, Errol Gregory, David Weir, Tarun Handa, Jean-Paul Menou, Devon and Kathy Yetman, Desmond Allen, Peter Watson, Dr Heather Little-White, Maurice Foster, Earl Bailey, Dave Mohammed, Steve and Donna Quallo, Naomi Francis, Fern Whyte, Tony Robinson and Ralston Hyman.
Christine Bell (left) of Innovative Ideas, hobnobs with guests and clients (from second left), Robert Levy, Tina Myers-Matalon, Garfield Joseph and Christopher Levy.
Jamaica Producers' trio (from left) Rolf Simmonds, commercial director; Cheryl Wright, financial controller; and Rosie Miller, personal assistant to the CEO hanging out.
Innovative Ideas' Carmen Patterson (left) and Christine Bell (second left) flash brilliant smiles with Samantha Gooden (second right) and Bev McCook.
Talking business: Jamaica Chamber of Commerce President Milton Samuda (left) listens keenly to Sterling Asset Management boss Charles Ross.
(From left) Creative Production Training Centre (CPTC) chairman, Christopher Samuda; United States Charges D'Affaires, Isaiah Parnell; and CPTC's chief executive officer, Angela Patterson, share a joke when they met at the United States embassy recently. - Contributed
So focused and in fine form, these little girls from Sts Peter and Paul Prep are perhaps future members of the National Dance Theatre Company.
The Nativity scene never looked so good as when the tots from Sts Peter and Paul Prep re-enacted it at their carol service earlier this week.