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Last Monday evening, colleagues and well-wishers gathered in the Port Antonio Suite of The Jamaica Pegasus hotel to bid adieu to three great members of the diplomatic corps.

It was an intimate gathering of friends and colleagues and music students who met at the Stony Hill residence of pianist extraordinaire Douglasse Burrulace on Sunday, June 30, for his 71st birthday celebration.

While the header by the flying Dutchman Robin van Persie may have been the gold of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the fans really got their head into the game.

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"I was a number-one sport," said 96-year-old Olive Pascoe with a sparkle in her eyes. "I dressed beautifully when I was a young woman," she continued, looking out from the verandah of her Ziadie Gardens, St Andrew, home. "I enjoyed myself."

It was ribbing and good old fun between long-time friends. It was a classic old boys' reunion at the 23rd Annual Carlton Alexander Awards, and this years' Jamaica College (JC) Old Boys Awardees were as exemplary as those of any other year.

Last Saturday night, (June 21) Jamaicans living in New York congregated at the residence of Dalbert Daley in Jamaica Estates, Queens, for a summer soirée where the Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) charity organisation fêted about 150 persons with an evening of fun, fashion, and charity.

Growing up in the small, quaint district of Rudds Corner in south Manchester, Barbarajean Burton remembers her parents Lloyd and Advira Burton calling their eight children by positive titles - "my pretty daughter" or "my handsome son". Even to this day, they still greet strangers that way - "Hello, my darling" or "Hello, beautiful".

Following the celebrations of the first match in the 2014 FIFA World Cup between Brazil and Croatia on June 12, that night was time for the Russians to celebrate.

The human capacity to learn and form memories could be enhanced by a popular antioxidant compound present in red wine, according to a study conducted by scientists in Germany.