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JCFA bids Chinese ambassador farewell

Published:Sunday | April 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
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From left: Norma Harrack, Claude Robinson, Fay Pickersgill and His Excellency Chen Jinghua, ambassador of the People's Republic of China.
The Chinese ambassador, His Excellency Chen Jinghua (left), listens to Leo Cousins.
From left: Parthe Edwards, Claude Robinson, Joan Robinson and Irena Cousins.- Contributed Photos
Fay Pickersgill (left) makes a point to Chinese Ambassador Chen Jinghua (right), while (from left) Easton Lee, Jean Lee and Sammy Wong Chew Onn listen.
President of the Jamaica China Friendship Association, Fay Pickersgill (right), presents Ambassador Chen Jinghua with a copy of the book Jamaican Art Then and Now. The occasion was a farewell dinner on Tuesday, March 29, for His Excellency Chen Jinghua, ambassador of the People's Republic of China, under the stars, at Devon House.
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The Jamaica China Friendship Association, led by its president and former Director of Tourism Fay Pickersgill, hosted a farewell dinner on Tuesday, March 29, for His Excellency Chen Jinghua, ambassador of the People's Republic of China, under the stars, canopied by the spreading lush limbs of the central mango tree at Devon House.

The association presented a gift of a copy of the book Jamaican Art Then and Now, which is to be launched on Thursday, April 14.

Here are some highlights from the farewell dinner.