Some 'designing women' showed up at Sumfest. It was golf for a cause in St Ann, while the Norwegians are here again for a series of workshops with chefs.

Tony Ebanks, general manager, Sandals Golf and Country Club, gives pointers to Imani Duncan, Jamaica Money Market Brokers group marketing manager, at the property's driving range. - Contributed

Donna Duncan Scott (centre), takes in the action from the mini-putting competition last Sunday at the JMMB Cup Family Brunch in Ocho Rios. - Contributed

Svein Wara, head of marketing for the Nowegian Seafood Export Council, shows off his country's signature Aquavit at a dinner hosted' by the ProComm family in Norbrook, St Andrew, on Monday night. He is here with one of Norway's top chefs, Sven Erik Renaa, who will conduct seminars on ways to prepare salt fish. - Barbara Ellington/Lifestyle Editor

William Beard, visiting from Washington D.C., enjoys the night with Astrid Wara, here with her husband Svein, for the Noregian Seafood Export Council's saltfish workshops with top chefs islandwide. They were at dinner with hosts Hube Chin and wife Jean Lowrie-Chin on Monday night. - Barbara Ellington/Lifestyle Editor

President Barack Obama, with his wife, the always lovely Michelle Obama, speaks during a reception for ambassadors in the Grand Foyer at The White House in Washington, Monday.

Jamaican designers were a hit at Reggae Sumfest 2K9, as Bianca Bartley sports of one of her 'Peace-Is-of -Bianca', earrings and dress - very pleasing to the eye last Saturday night when 'Something Extra' spotted her. - Photo Janet Silvera