Future nurses (from left) Ricky-Ann Smith, Ricarla Daley and Morissa Crosdale from Roosevelt Avenue Seventh-day Adventist Basic School are ready to get to work as they toured sections of Kingston last Thursday. The school was celebrating career day. - photos by Robert Lalah

All's clear for take-off! Pilots-to-be (from left) Matthew Jones, Imani Edwards and Garfield Giscombe are all dressed for the part .

A decade is definitely a reason to celebrate, and saying goodbye is never an easy thing.

Blue has never looked so beautiful as Jacqueline Sharp (left), general manager, Scotia Jamaica Life Insurance, and Bridget Lewis, general manager of Scotia Private Client Group, make their grand entrance at Scotia Insurance's 10th anniversary celebration at the Scotia Training Centre, Acadia, St Andrew, on Saturday. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

Laughter is a great medicine and it's all smiles for (from left) Kay Osborne, Norma Brown-Bell and Lorna Golding at the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen cocktail reception and sashing at Devon House last Thursday. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

A word or two of wisdom might be at the heart of this gathering. Former festival queens Jacinth Hall-Tracey (second right) and Jacqueline Stulz (right), with current parish queens Whytney Kissoon (left), Miss Clarendon, and Leontre Roberts, Miss St Elizabeth. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

Is there a doctor in the house? Chef Giancarla Ferrera would definitely need one if it wasn't all fun and games at the Cook Mon! competition held last Saturday. The competition was part of the ninth annual Epicurean Escape, hosted by Grand Lido Negril. - photo by Denise Reid

Together for the last time, Patrick Hylton (left), group managing director of National Commercial Bank (NCB), shares a farewell joke with Courtney Campbell, who resigned from the bank after 23 years. Campbell was head of NCB's retail banking division. He joins the First Global group, the main banking and investment arm of GraceKennedy Limited. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer

The 'big man' with his family. Courtney Campbell (second right) with wife Pauline are flanked by their sons Adrian (left) and Dominic at his farewell reception, held at NCB Sports Club, Phoenix Avenue, last Thursday. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer