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Influential women say farewell to Leonora Rueda

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM
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Pamela E. Bridgewater, United States mbassador to Jamaica (left), with guest of honour, former Mexican ambassador to Jamaica, Leonora Rueda.- Contributed
From left: Custos of St Andrew, Marigold Harding; former Mexican Ambassador Leonora Rueda; Ambassador Pamela E. Bridgewater; Carla Seaga and Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Lllewellyn, take a moment from their meal to smile for the cameras.- Contributed
From left: Dr. Carolyn Gomes; Professor Verene Shepherd; Spanish Ambassador Celsa Nuno; Trinidad & Tobago High Commissioner Dr Iva gloudon and Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, pause from dinner for the camera.
Dinner guests (front row, from left), Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn, Carla Seaga, and Senator Dorothy Lightbourne. (Middle row, from left) Ambassador Celsa Nuno, Dr Carolyn Gomes and Professor Verene Shepherd. (Back row, from left) Dr Iva Gloudon, Trinidad high commissioner, United States Ambassador Pamela Bridgewater and Custos of St Andrew, Marigold Harding.- Contributed
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United States Ambassador to Jamaica Pamela E. Bridgewater hosted a small intimate dinner in honour of departing Mexican Ambassador to Jamaica, Leonora Rueda. Ambassador Rueda is departing Jamaica for her next assignment in Wellington, New Zealand, as the next Mexican ambassador there.

The guest list read like a female who's who in the Government, the diplomatic corps, education and non-government agencies, and included Spanish Ambassador to Jamaica Celsa Nuno; High Commissioner of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago to Jamaica, Dr Iva Gloudon; Custos of St Andrew, Marigold Harding; Senator Dorothy Lightbourne; Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn; Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice, Dr Carolyn Gomes; Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Professor Verene Shepherd; chairman of the Devon House board, Carla Seaga; and of course, the guest of honour, Leonora Rueda.

The group started off with Mexican-Jamaican flavoured welcome cocktails of fresh pineapple juice with lime and tequila. This was followed by a scrumptious appetiser of rice-paper-wrapped salad roll containing avacado, red lettuce, bean sprouts and cucumbers, dressed with a Hoisin-peanut sauce. The entrée was beef massaman curry, Thai shrimp with sticky rice and steamed broccoli. Dessert was home-made tiramisu.