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Published:Thursday | November 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM
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Members of Team NCB (from left): Andrew Holt, Mona-Lisa Stewart, Suzanne Malcolm-Byfield, Camille Wedderburn-Ruddock and Phaedra Durman, exemplify service with a smile, as they were fêted at a recently held appreciation luncheon in their honour. - contributed
Lyttleton Shirley, chairman of the South East Regional Health Authority poses with Shaneka Simpson, coordinator of medical technology, the fourth annual Kingston Public Hospital Clinical and Scientific Conference held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel yesterday.
Marilyn Folkes, (centre) chats with Nicola Baker (right) and Camilia Marshall at Sterling Asset Management Wine and Conversation 'Investing in a Volatile Market' at Terra Nova All Suite Hotel on Tuesday.
Dave Cameron, (left) manager, fixed income securities, Sterling Asset Management, chats with Dodd Williams (centre) and Chad Puryear senior VP, fixed income capital markets, Morgan Keegan and Company, at Sterling Asset Management Wine and Conversation 'Investing in a Volatile Market' at Terra Nova All Suite Hotel on Tuesday.
Phillippa Sauterel (left), sales associate, Coldwell Banker, and Amandine Poret, director, Alliance Francaise, are spotted at Sterling Asset Management's Wine and Conversation 'Investing in a Volatile Market' at Terra Nova All Suite Hotel on Tuesday. - photos by Rudolph Brown/Photographer
Patrick McDonald accepts his decorative High Flyer 'wing' from Audrey Flowers Clarke, AVP insurance operations, at the Sagicor High Flyers luncheon held at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel on Monday. - Gladstone Taylor/Photographer
Custos of St Andrew Marigold Harding explains how one is served the courses at a formal dinner to Marlon Case (seated), one of the new justices of the peace who completed a seven-week training programme for 105 JPs for the parish of St Andrew at the Medallion Hall Hotel, St Andrew, last Wednesday. See Sunday's Outlook for details. - Gladstone Taylor/Photographer
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There has been plenty of activity on the social scene and it's not even Christmas yet.

Thursdaytalk

Early December

1. Smart money is betting that it will be a December 8 general election. This they say is due to both internal and external factors.

Laughing stock

2. When he turned up recently for an organisation function and was not accorded the table of choice, the person pulled one almighty fluff and stormed out, the beauty and other members of the entourage in tow. This person is now made himself the laughing stock of the industry!

Sweet deal

3. Some are calling it hush money; they say how else can they explain a severance package that includes a two-year compensation plus all kinds of other sweeteners?

Cash crunch

4. The telephone calls are now going out in search of funds to finance the campaign, but the responses have been lukewarm generally and downright frosty in some instances.

Board spots

5. Recent board appointments are causing raised eyebrows in some quarters, as in the case of one high-profile appointment there are some unanswered questions.

He's back

6. Friends say it's a case of the higher the monkey climbs, the more he is exposed as the recent exposure has the creditors crawling out of the woodwork. Story is, his list of sins includes being fired once for same-sex fraternisation; another dismissal was because a guest's credit-card number was tendered for purchases by one of his girlfriends. Now he's back and more obnoxious than before!