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Miss United Vincie Cultural Group of Brooklyn 2019 Jamaican Lillian Lettman (center) fl anked by fi rst runner
up Barbadian Denise Callender (left) and second runner-up Jamaican Daisey Frith.
Photo by Nelson A. King
Caribbean Life, DECEMBER 6-12, 2019 47
By Nelson A. King
For the second successive year, a
Jamaican national has been crowned
the “Miss United Vincie Cultural
Group of Brooklyn.”
Lillian Lettman, a Canarsie,
Brooklyn resident, originally from St.
Catherine in Jamaica, was adjudged
“Best Dressed” during the United
Vincie Cultural Group of Brooklyn’s
(UVCGB) 11th Annual Fundraising
Tea Party, at Trinity Apostolic
Church Banquet Hall, 1807 Pacific
St., between Schenectady and Utica
avenues, Brooklyn.
Lettman edged out Barbadian
Denise Callender (first runner-up)
and another Jamaican national, Daisey
Frith (second runner-up) to take
the top spot.
“This is the very first time attending,
and I love it,” Lettman told
Caribbean Life briefly after she was
crowned by her compatriot, Morna
Francis Harris, last year’s winner.
She said she was invited to the
event by her Brooklyn friend, Donna
Huggins.
Last year was also the first time
that Harris, a Queens resident,
attended the event; she was invited
by her church sister and compatriot,
Pamela Tucker, last year’s second
runner-up.
Harris and Tucker worship at Miracle
Temple Ministries in Brownsville,
Brooklyn. Most members of
UVCGB also worship at the evangelical
church.
Besides “Best Dressed,” there were
also several competitions through-
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Producer Marcia Deans. Marcia Deans
By Rawle Titus
Ska and Rocksteady, the two genres
that gave rise to old and new forms of
Reggae, are being rekindled in a new television
documentary to be released 2021.
The documentary, exploring the origins
and evolution of Reggae, will be
filmed at landmarks across Jamaica, producers
say.
Interviews have been planned with
surviving legends of the Ska and Rocksteady
era as part of a one-hour produc-
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By Nelson A. King
The Bronx-based Garifuna Coalition
USA, Inc. says it is sponsoring Garifuna
artist Isidrao Sabio’s participation in
Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education
Gallery Exhibition in the Bronx.
The Coalition said the art gallery
exhibition and related public programs
comprise the winter season of “¡CelebrARTE!,”
Casita Maria’s South Bronx
arts and culture series.
The exhibition runs from Dec. 5,
2019 to Feb. 28, 2020, at Casita Maria
Center for Arts & Education, 928 Simpson
St., Bronx.
The Coalition said Sabio began drawing
as a young child while growing up
in a Garifuna community in Honduras.
“She has developed into an accomplished
illustrator committed to cre-
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