Area director of public relations, Ritz-Carlton hotels, Verona Carter (left), who hosted media from all over the world to breakfast at the Caribbean Marketplace in Nassau, Bahamas, on Monday. She caught up with Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, who was also in attendance.

Montego Bay mover and shaker, Fred Smith, celebrated his 5Oth in fine style at the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club on Tuesday night, and we have highlights.

Drum roll: Fred Smith makes his grand entrance into the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club's ballroom with daughter, attorney-at-law Roxanne Smith, for his 50th birthday party.

International cricket umpire Steve Bucknor was taking no verbal barbs as, with wife Leonora, he celebrated with friend, Fred Smith.

Birthday boy Fred Smith (second left) arrived at the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club in a stretch limousine, and his friends flew in on 737s, A300s and helicopters from all over the world. With him (from left) are Ralph Smith, his father, the svelte and gorgeous Violet Lewis with her husband Lennox,former undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world. - Photos by Janet Silvera

Odette Dyer looks like a million dollars in her favourite colour, black.