SATURDAY SOCIAL

MARCH 1

Guardsman Group’s Kenny Benjamin threw open the doors of his Stony Hill compound last Friday to host ‘Baila Amor’, the St Valentine’s Latin dance party of the Latin American Women’s Club. Guests cross-body led, lock-stepped, and time-stepped the night away — be it solo, in large groups with friends or partnered cheek-to-cheek with that special someone — to familiar hits from the Latin music canon mixed with mainstream club beats, below an enormous rustic chandelier that doubled at as a multi-tiered disco ball. Saturday Social was on the scene and cha-cha-ed our way across the tiled dance floor to bring you these scenes.

(PHOTOS: JOSEPH WELLINGTON)

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Guardsman Group Founder and Executive Chairman Kenny Benjamin and his partner Aloima Suarez ‘cut a rug’ on the dance floor.

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Angela Lopez, Viviana Lopez, and Germania Garcia Nelson paused from the festivities to greet our lens.

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Newport Fersan auditor Luisa Rosario and general manager Rafael Delgado shared the dance floor with our shutterbug.

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Jewellery designer and Cuban native Yumara Garcia showed our lensman her rhythmic dance moves.

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President of the Latin American Women’s Club Sara Fontana offered a welcome embrace to American Clean Energy CEO Steve Morgan and his wife, Jamaica Public Service president and CEO Kelly Tomblin.

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Mexican Ambassador to Jamaica Gerardo Lozano and his wife Mariza Del Rocio Arciniega Aguirre shake their groove things.

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For her night out at the dance party, the Embassy of Panama’s Alvine Valor styled in muted florals and neutrals.

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The gang was all there reppin’ for the Latin American Women’s Club at their dance party event in Stony Hill. From left: Camille Torres, director; Meyerling Abreu, treasurer; Yeliza Collazo, secretary; Lilia Cisnero, director; Maria Fernanda Arscott, member; Rosa Peña, vice treasurer; Mariza Del Rocio Arciniega Aguirre, director; Carmen Pacheco, member; Sara Fontana, president; Angela Dabdoub, vice-president; Xiomara Walker, director; Aida Young, member; Jackeline Valdez, director; and Maria Pinchin, founder and past president.