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Published:Thursday | June 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM
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Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry (left) hangs out with actor Paul Campbell at the inaugural Kingston Pon Di River Literary, Arts and Music Festival on Sunday at Boone Hall Oasis. - Contributed
Shanoy Harris-Coombs (left), senior communications officer at the Ministry of National Security, shares a joke with National Security Minister Dwight Nelson (second left), LIME's Danielle Hopkins and Errol Miller at the launch of the 'MNS Staff Fusion' social club last Friday at the Oxford Road office in Kingston. - Contributed
Soldanza hostess Jodi-Ann Evans offers her goodies at Saint International StyleWeek International Mecca Of Style Show, held at Fort Charles, Port Royal, on Saturday night. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Pulse supermodel Nell Robinson took a break from her busy schedule to catch the action at the recent Champion's League finals featuring Barcelona and Manchester United at Wembley in London. Nell will be in Jamaica next week to resume runway duties at Caribbean Fashionweek. - Contributed
New York-based Andrea E. Wilson (left), head hairstylist for CFW 2011, poses with Kim Kardashian. Andrea has worked with scores of fashion and entertainment celebrities and has styled top models on all the major collections in Paris, London and New York. She returns home for her second year at the helm for Caribbean Fashionweek, which begins June 8. - Contributed
From left: Kingsley Cooper welcomes the fun-loving Paula Surtees, her daughter Anastasia and husband Jonathan to the launch party of Caribbean Fashion-week at Studio 38, Trafalgar Road, on Tuesday. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
From left: Anna Priestley, Giselle Ashley and Kamal Bankay look on as Paul Matthews, entertainment director of Dream Weekend, and Peter McConnell, managing director of Trade Winds Citrus Limited, sign the contract cementing Tru-Juice as the official mixer for the upcoming staging of Dream Weekend, which takes place in Negril from July 29 to August 1. - Contributed
Myrtle Dwyer and her daughter, Rachel Anderson, in a loving embrace at the Stepping Out of Glamour Destination Management at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel on Tuesday. - Gladstone Taylor/ Photographer
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The countdown to Caribbean Fashionweek intensifies, and there are so many other exciting activities across the island.

Thursdaytalk

Wrong move

1. The move to bypass the on-the-ground representative of the foreign government to use the representative abroad to seek an audience is being described as amateurish!

Shocking news

2. News of the break-up of the couple has left some in quite a state of shock as, for many, they were the poster children for a happy and long-lasting marriage!

Agony weekend

3. Kingston and Montego Bay were in agony last weekend as the word doing the circuit was that yet another had had his visa revoked! The phone lines were kept busy by those asking: "Is it I?"

Local WikiLeaks

4. There's a Jamaican version of WikiLeaks as officials past and present grade some of those who have been passing diplomatic judgment in cables. So far, what has been leaked said at least one former representative was a social-climbing self-promoter; yet another was a cheapskate who was always hustling to the point of uprooting and potting plants; and yet another who had a passion for the seedier side of Kingston. Keep reading these pages for more ... .

Hoping residents

5. Residents are complaining that the sidewalks are now better than the roadways, so they are hoping that the roadways will be addressed in this cycle!

Happy lovers

6. Friends are expressing concern that the neglected wife has decided to take another lover! Others are not so sure the concerns are not misplaced as they say everybody seems happy!