Outlook

The Commonwealth Games is all about coming together for the love of sports, and last Saturday evening, specially invited guests came together to welcome the arrival of the Queen's Baton in Jamaica.

No stranger to the spotlight, Primrose Swaby has been featured many times for her accolades as one of Jamaica's top Spelling Bee coaches. A teacher who is loved by many at the Mandeville Primary and Junior High School, she started from very humble beginnings.

The best of the '70s, '80s, and '90s rocked the quiet community of Reading, St James, last Saturday, at the Complete Entertainment and Kool FM debuted Groove Thang at the Syrynity Palace.

Executive Chef at the Gloucestershire Hotel, Montego Bay, Marsden Palmer, laid out the red carpet 'pasta style', hosting over 120 guests at the Flow MoBay City Run, 'Pasta, Karaoke and Wine' party on the Second City's popular Hip Strip.

African-American social reformer, orator, and writer Frederick Douglass said, "It is easier to build children than to repair broken men." Since children are like sponges that soak up everything that adults do, we should be careful because we could be raising a nation of broken men.

Though she migrated before her first year in high school, Erice Reid has never forgotten the land of her birth. Orginally from Spanish Town, St Catherine, the high-school English and special education teacher in Philadelphia, can now add 'jewellery designer' to her resume.

Last Sunday, Helen G Event Planning and Design, hosted its first wedding expo after the company started in 2003. The expo, which had a live stream and one-to-one consultations for brides-to-be, was very informative and eye-opening as to the countless possibilities for the perfect dream wedding with all the best vendors under one roof.

Fashion designer Ayanna Dixon recently staged her first fashion illustration exhibition at The Olympia Gallery. The designs show the diversification in fashion trends - designs that are hip, young and fashionable.

Sometimes disappointments in life are actually blessings in disguise. A determination to find something to do while not being able to attend school was the driving force behind the miniature buildings that Raneil Thompson has been making since he was eight years old.

Many Jamaicans were surprised last week when they found out that one of their own was part of the team counselling relatives of passengers on missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. Clinical psychologist Stephen-Claude Hyatt was spearheading the trauma team working with relatives and friends of the passengers.

Doc, I cannot believe that I have been so stupid. I am three months' pregnant, and my husband has been away in America for a week. I have been feeling very 'horny' and I did the craziest thing and had sex with an old friend from my schooldays. Could I have hurt the baby?