NEW YORK (JIS): Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - Former Consul General of Jamaica to New York, Dr. Basil K. Bryan, OD, was on Saturday, December 8, 2007, presented with an award for outstanding community service by Caribbean Food Delights/Royal Caribbean Bakery (CFD/RCB) at the company’s annual end of year appreciation party at the trendy Surf Club on the New Rochelle waterfront, New York.

The beloved CG who served as one of Jamaica’s top two diplomats in New York City from 1998 through September of this year, was one of five persons recognized by the HoSang family, owners of the top notch Jamaican pastry manufacturing outlet, headquartered in Tappan, NY.

Also recognized were; Rev. Canon Calvin McIntyre, Pastor of the Good Shepherd Church, Bronx; Amir Abdullah Mohammed Abdul Akbar, Founder/Executive Director of the Caribbean American Program for Empowerment (CAPE), Inc; Bishop Sylveta Hamilton-Gonzales of Q-Kingdom Ministries (WGE) and MACADEMY and Tim Conway, Director of Sales - CFD/RCB and 2007 Employee of the Year.

For her many outreach efforts including the Team Jamaica Bickle feeding program at the Penn Relays Carnival in Philadelphia, the Island Games in New York and Hurricane Dean Relief Fund, Sabrina HoSang, the company’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) was presented with a proclamation from US Congressman Edolphus Towns (Brooklyn) and the US House of Representatives for her outstanding philanthropy and community activism.

The company recently announced that it’s franchise operation now trading as JerkQzine, will offer its customers ‘a vacation from ordinary food’.

Contact:
Aubrey L. Campbell
JIS/NY
T: 212-935-7506