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Former presidents and the Observer news correspondent
Newly minted author Desmond Allen (right), former president of the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ), hanging out with immediate past president president, George Davis (left) and longstanding Jamaica Observer news correspondent, Everard Owen, at the PAJ’s veterans’ lunch on Wednesday at the Medallion Hall Hotel, Lady Musgrave Road in St Andrew. The lunch was sponsored by Wray & Nephew. Allen recently published his book, Desmond Allen’s Greatest Hits: Wondrous Tales of Extraordinary Jamaicans now available on Amazon; at Urban Books and Publishers, 13 Dominica Drive, New Kingston, and BambuSparks Publishers. (Photo: Karl McLarty)
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November 23, 2023

Former presidents and the Observer news correspondent

Newly minted author Desmond Allen (right), former president of the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ), hanging out with immediate past president president, George Davis (left) and longstanding Jamaica Observer news correspondent, Everard Owen, at the PAJ’s veterans’ lunch on Wednesday at the Medallion Hall Hotel, Lady Musgrave Road in St Andrew. The lunch was sponsored by Wray & Nephew. Allen recently published his book, Desmond Allen’s Greatest Hits: Wondrous Tales of Extraordinary Jamaicans now available on Amazon; at Urban Books and Publishers, 13 Dominica Drive, New Kingston, and BambuSparks Publishers. (Photo: Karl McLarty)

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