Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Gleaner winners (from left) Chief Photographer Norman Grindley, Senior Reporter and Hospitality Jamaica Coordinator Janet Silvera, Photographer Ricardo Makyn and Subeditor Raymond Simpson. The Gleaner took home seven awards in various categories from the annual Press Association of Jamaica National Journalism Awards Ceremony, held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, Friday night.
The Gleaner newspaper copped the lion's share of the awards as the curtains came down on Journalism Week Friday night. The Gleaner won seven of the 14 awards presented at the awards ceremony, staged by the 66-year-old Press Association of Jamaica.
Tie: Norman Grindley, The Gleaner, and Lionel Rookwood, The Jamaica Observer
Janet Silvera, The Gleaner
Ian Boyne, Sunday Gleaner columnist
Ricardo Makyn, The Gleaner
Raymond Simpson, The Gleaner
Las May, The Gleaner
Tyrone Reid, The Gleaner, and Donna Hussey-Whyte, The Jamaica Observer
Tie: Ralston Hyman, Sunday Herald, and Dashan Hendricks, CVM Television
Kayon Raynor, The Jamaica Observer
Bryan Cummings, The Jamaica Observer
Ivan Shaw, Television Jamaica (TVJ)
Saudicka Diaram, CVM Television
Cassandra Brenton, Jamaica Observer
Andrea Chisholm, Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Television
The PAJ has said it will name a Journalist of the Year early in 2010.