The new Miss Jamaica UK, Jillian Grandison, is sandwiched by first runner-up Paula Cordington (left) and second runner-up T'Leisha Gray following Saturday's coronation in London, England. - contributed

You know the festive season has officially started when the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce holds its annual charity ball.

From left: Former United States ambassador to Jamaica and president of the American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ), Sue Cobb, Ambassador Brenda LaGrange Johnson and Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia Grange, are picture perfect at last Thursday's AFJ Gala at Gotham Hall in New York. - photo by Barbara Ellington

Honorary graduates Michael Lee Chin (left) and Roderick Rainford show of their Doctor of Laws degrees received at the UWI presentation of graduates at the UWI, Mona campus, on Saturday. - Peta-Gaye Clachar/Staff Photographer

Rising Stars host Yendi Phillipps (second left) is surrounded by friends (from left) Tanya Miller, Suzette Shaw-Reid and Micha Alleyne at the Magnum Blue Car party, held at Margaritaville Montego Bay last Friday. - photo by Denise Reid

No one can say Millicent Lynch is not having a good time during the annual Jamaica Chamber of Commerce grand charity ball, held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, on Saturday night. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer