At its meeting on August 23, the Kiwanis Club of New Kingston honoured two outstanding members of the clergy — Reverend Claudette Campbell, a Methodist deaconess and Reverend Captain Dwane Blackw...
A limited number of masked military men and women, dressed in their khaki uniforms and led by Lieutenant General Rocky Meade, chief of defence staff, along with other senior military members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), social-distanced inside the history-filled Garrison Church of the Ascension, Up Park Camp, on Tuesday evening for the traditional carol service.
Owing to the pandemic, the 2020 edition was not the usual lavish affair with thousands in attendance at what is seen as the prestigious JDF Open Air Carol Service. But, as the Reverend Dwane Blackwood said as he delivered the homily, “This event is so much a part of the fabric of the JDF that, despite the challenge of COVID, we thought it important to host.”