Did someone say 'shhhhhhh?!'- photos by Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's 'Speechfest' on Thursday, July 17, at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre, featured the best of the best entrants in this year's festival. We can't take the sounds to you, but we are sure you will enjoy the sights.

"I want to go to foreign," says Jessell Jemison, a student of Goshen All-Age School, in a brilliant dramatisation of a real-life situation involving two boys who attempted to board a flight in Montego Bay.

André Morris of the UTech Theatre Ensemble dramatises 'Belly Woman/Memoirs of a Slave Ship' at Speechfest.