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Published:Thursday | July 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM
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Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell blowing off some steam by trying his hand at a new sport - basketball - during training at the University of Birmingham yesterday. - Photos by Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer
Jamaican Olympian Nesta Carter and Leesa Kow, general manager, JN Money Services Limited, show off their Jamaican gift packages at the welcome dinner for the members of the Jamaican track and field team to the 2012 Olympic Games, hosted by the University of Birmingham and the Birmingham City Council on Monday. - Contributed
MVP athletes leaving training at University of Birmingham yesterday. From left are Kaliese Spencer, Christine Day, Shericka Williams and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, while Latoya Greaves runs to catch up with the group.
Edward Seaga (centre) gets a kiss from a third of the Bramwell triplets, Colleen, while her sisters Candine (left), Colliet, and Robert Drummond, president of First Global Financial Services, look on. The occasion was First Global's sponsorship presentation to the triplets at the main library at the University of the West Indies last Friday. - Rudolph Brown/Photographer
Mayor Angela Brown Burke gives Courtney Campbell, CEO of GraceKennedy Financial Group, a hug after presenting him with a Jamaica 50 pin during a visit to the mayor's parlour on Church Street last Friday. - Rudolph Brown/Photographer
Minister of State, Transport, Works and Housing, Richard Azan, is sandwiched by two very colourful Devon House hostesses, Barbara Beckford (left) and Norma Rhoden, at a reception hosted by Dr Omar Davies and the Port Authority of Jamaica for the visiting China Communication Consultant Company Limited last Friday. - photos by Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Belgium Ambassador Frederic Meurice and his wife Lydie hosted a farewell reception to say goodbye to friends and fellow diplomats, as they leave the island on Monday, July 30. Something Extra caught up with Kerri-Ann Suckrajh (left) and Nicola Dobbs Creary-Brown at the reception held on Millsborough Crescent on Monday night.
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The excitement is in the air and you can almost taste it. Between the start of the Olympics and our impending Independence celebrations, we can hardly contain ourselves.