Upcoming Events:

CCJ's 16th annual Gala will be held this year on November 08, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

This year's Achievement Award receipient is Anthony Winkler, a noted Jamaican author and playwrite:

• Anthony C. Winkler was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He was educated at Mount Alvernia Academy, then Cornwall College in Montego Bay and the California State University in Los Angeles. He is the author of several textbooks in English and Public Speaking which are widely used in American colleges and universities. His first novel, The Painted Canoe, was published by Kingston Publishers in 1983, followed by The Lunatic in 1987 and The Great Yacht Race in 1992. All three novels met with international critical acclaim and the movie THE LUNATIC was released in 1990. Going Home to Teach, an autobiographical account of a year spent in Jamaica, was published in 1995.

Also in attendance will be noted Jamaican comic, author and playwrite, Tony Hendriks, otherwise known as Jamaican Paleface, who is guaranteed to 'mek uno laugh till uno fenny'.