Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Sunday | December 27, 2009
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How people saw it
These pictures were featured in various sections of our newspaper over the last 12 months. We took to the streets last week inviting members of the public to caption the photographs based on their memory of the incidents.

Below, see the published captions and people's interpretation.


  • Audley Shaw

    Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer

    Published caption: Audley Shaw, minister of finance and the public service, arrives at Jamaica House for a three-day retreat, February 20.

    Public's caption: Yipee! Time to kick back, relax and have some fun, although the briefcase them full.


  • Bruce kisses Portia

    Published caption:

    Contributed Prime Minister Bruce Golding greets Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller at the Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists praise and thanksgiving service at Kencot Seventh-day Adventist Church in St Andrew on October 4, 2009.

    Public's caption:

    Now, Portia, why can't we always get along like this?


  • Bruce and Edith

    Published caption: Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

    Edith Allwood-Anderson, president of the Nurses' Association of Jamaica NAJ speaks to Prime Minister Bruce Golding, (centre) and Rudyard Spencer, (right) Minister of Health during a demonstration at Gordon House by the Nurses Association of Jamaica on Tuesday, September 22-2009

    Public's caption :

    " Edith thinking to herself: 'Mi nuh business wha him sya, wi wanr wi money!


  • Audley wispers to IDB rep

    Published Caption: Inter-American Development Bank president Luis Alberto Moreno leans in to hear Audley Shaw, Minister of Finance at the PSOJ Annual Economic Forum held at the Bank of Jamaica Auditorium in Kingston in May.

    Public's caption: Shaw to Moreno: Try do a little ting extra fi we nuh, it rough, and the IMF giving us a fight.


  • Rudyard Spencer

    Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

    Published Caption: Rudyard Spencer, Minister of Health Environment speaks to members of the media on the Swine Flu and the Nurses at the Post Cabinet Press Briefing, at Jamaica House on Devon Road Kingston, Wednesday, April 29-2009

    Public's caption: Swine flu... Edith...junior doctors...free health care, I need some multi-symptom tablets.

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