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Published:Saturday | June 22, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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Bethany Young (right), public relations assistant for Rainforest Seafoods, shares product samples for patrons during the 5th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference. - Photo by Christopher Thomas
Renford Lawrence (left), a bartender attached to J. Wray & Nephew Ltd, serves a patron.
Hospitality students of the Lucea Skills Training Centre were on hand as part of the catering team at the Hanover Co-operative Credit Union's annual general meeting. Here, from left, Treshannie Black of Cousins Cove, Marrikah Gordon-Drummond of Orange Bay, Sherieka McKenzie of Esher and Tanisha Griffiths, also of Cousins Cove, take a break.
Jamaica-born Dr Julaine Rigg (second right), assistant professor at the Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, hangs out with (from left) Keisha Sharpe-Gibbs, business development officer at First Global Bank (FGB); Sharon Paris-Chambers and her husband, Theo Chambers, of Positive Tourism; and Carolyn Stewart-Fender, also of FGB.
Dr Jacqueline Watson, (right), chief executive officer of the United States-based Health Concepts International, and executive director of the District of Columbia Board of Medicine, shares notes with regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority, Dr Ken Garfield Douglas, during a session on 'Diaspora Contributions and Investments and Health Care in Jamaica' at the diaspora conference.
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