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Court circuit – Embassy 19 – October 2009
Simona Spinaru and Oana Gheorghiu (both Romania) with Embassy Editor Elizabeth Stewart with the new YDL branding in the background
Caribbean connections
The sounds of steel pan music reverberated through the grand rooms of Marlborough House to welcome guests to the Young Diplomats’ Caribbean Connections party organised in association with the High Commission for St Lucia. Guests turned up in their most colourful gear and were treated to an assortment of rum punch and spirits, courtesy of IDS, to get them in the party spirit. The highlight of the evening was a vibrant parade that came straight from the streets of the Notting Hill Carnival. There were prizes up for grabs too. One lucky guest walked away with a BMW Z4 for a weekend and a seat at the BMW box for the Chelsea-Blackburn game, and another (dressed as James Bond) won a week in the Caribbean. All the proceeds of the event will go towards building a hospital in the Caribbean.
PHOTOS: PIERRE DE VILLIERS
Matt Doyle (BMW Park Lane), Bernard Hamilton, YDL Committee Member Chantal Naidoo and the High Commissioner for St Lucia Eldridge Stephens
High Commissioner Eldridge Stephens, Debbie Melchor (St Lucia Tourist Board), Agnes Adonis (Dominica), Clerona Compton (St Lucia)
Ancil Barclay (Trinidad & Tobago), Andrea Boothman and Chris Boothman
Bernard Hamilton, Kate Jones, Vincent Osborne, Lauren Green and Tony Moore
Bernard Hamilton, Nakinda Daniel, Janet Charles and Commonwealth Deputy Secretary General Ransford Smith
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Caribbean queens – finalists for the Miss Trinidad & Tobago UK and Miss Caribbean UK
Mark Collins (Friends of the Commonwealth)
YDL committee members Aldo Zammit Tabona (Commonwealth Secretariat) and Amelie Galatry (France)
YDL President Bernard Hamilton and YDL President Emeritus Ezio Fabiani get ready for the Caribbean carnival
Verne Augustin (St Lucia) congratulates Peter Taylor – aka James Bond – the winner of a dream trip to the Caribbean
Bernard Hamilton and Ezio Fabbiani trying their hand at the steel pans
It wasn’t long before guests got into the carnival spirit
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