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Published:Thursday | April 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM
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From left: Diana Tewani with former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson and her children, Natini Tewani, Ravi Tewani and Shalini Vaswani, at Monday's American Friends of Jamaica reception, held at Hill Road, Norbrook, St Andrew. See all the details in Sunday's Outlook. - Winston Sill / Freelance Photographer
A family affair (from left): Richard Burrell, Sharon Burke, Rebecca Packer, Tyler Burrell and Sydney Burrell (at front) out to celebrate with Shaggy, who is this year's recipient of the American Friends of Jamaica Humanitarian Award 2011 on Saturday, in Florida. - Contributed
From left: Donnie Dawson, Ambassador Audrey Marks and Orville 'Shaggy' Burrell, this year's recipient of the American Friends of Jamaica Humanitarian Award, pose for the camera at the gala in Miami, Florida, on Saturday night. - Contributed
United States Ambassador Pamela Bridgewater chats with Edmund Bartlett, minister of tourism, at the American Friends of Jamaica Grants Award ceremony at 1 Paddington Terrace on Tuesday.
Joy Laesch (right), representing the Eye Health Institute, receives a grant from Ambassador Sue Cobb at the American Friends of Jamaica Grants Award ceremony at 1 Paddington Terrace on Tuesday.
From left: Simone Hull, Scotiabank's regional sponsorship manager; Imran Khan, West Indies Cricket Board media and communications manager, and Nicola Sutherland Hawkes, sponsorship executive at Digicel, enjoy the world premiere of 'Fire in Babylon' held at the Courtleigh Auditorium on Saturday night. Scotiabank is a sponsor of the series, which kicks off April 18 in St Lucia with the Pakistan leg of the tour. - Contributed
Bruce Bowen, CEO and president of Scotiabank, and his wife, Suzann, sport matching hats as they arrive for Sunday's polo match hosted by the bank at the Caymanas Estate. - photos by Rudolph Brown/Photographer
A model wears one of many fabulous hats on show at Hearts 'N' Ideas' Hats On To Easter show, held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, on Sunday. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
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It's been a hectic week on the social scene; here are some highlights.

The hottest topics on the cocktail circuit

Who has the contract?

1. Concerns are mounting in some quarters over the way some state entities operate in contravention of directives and guidelines. To begin with, one company only learned that it had won a tender after visiting a website, as the body concerned did not see it fit to inform them of the Cabinet decision! And this is four months after the Cabinet awarded the contract!

It's fun time!

2.  The gospel according to the estranged wife is that while the high-profile entrepreneur is busy living it up and being photographed with young girls, his children's school fees remain unpaid and if it weren't for their grandmother, they would have many a hungry night!

Fuming people

3.  Some Caymanians are still fuming over the treatment meted out to them at the recent high-profile event. Seems like the lady organiser was more than overzealous in her handling of guests and at least one very senior government official. The emerging consensus is that she is definitely not welcome back.

Woman power!

4.  The second wife is a mild-mannered almost self-effacing type, but when the verbal abuse escalated to her being hit, neighbours had to come to the rescue, as she went berserk and gave him the walloping of his life! Since then, things have been all peaches and cream!

All is not well

5.  All the talk of corruption among the ranks of politicians has dwarfed the reality that some are now destitute and now having to look elsewhere in their golden years for retirement and sustenance. Some argue that an official response is needed to prevent others from suffering the same fate!

Probe, probe

6.  Some are being reminded that the person was being investi-gated for alleged involvement in illegal importation and distribution and connections to drugrunning!

Legal concerns

7.  Legal watchers are expressing concern that the ongoing cass-cass is not only unseemly, it is not winning friends and/or influencing enemies and is causing some to lose faith in not only the system, but those who administer it!