After the annual National Honours and Awards Ceremony of Investiture, the main event on National Heroes Day, there were many celebratory lunches and parties. For the rest of the week, Something Extra will have highlights for you.

photos by Peta-Gaye Clachar/Staff Photographer

Truly enjoying their moment with Minister of Tourism Ed Bartlett (second left) are national honourees (from left) Earl Jarrett, Alec Sanguinetti and Beverly Lindsay. They were hosted by the tourism ministry at an after-award luncheon in their honour.

Barbara Blake Hanna is always a picture of regal elegance in her Rasta-inspired attire and yesterday was no exception.

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Above: National Commercial Bank Group Managing Director Patrick Hylton and his wife, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, in a relaxed mood at the reception hosted for the bank's chairman Hon Michael Lee Chin who received the Order of Jamaica yesterday.

Right: As cute as a button, little Isabel Chen hangs on to mommy Diana Chen at the reception hosted by her grandmother for her uncle, the Hon Michael Lee Chin, in Manor Park, St Andrew, yesterday.

Former United States Ambassador Stan McLelland (left) is all ears as fellow awardee Sydney Engel engages him in conversation before they were presented with honorary Orders of Distinction yesterday. McLelland received his for service to Jamaica in restoring the United States market for ackee export and Engel received his for contribution to the development of MoBay Hope.