Cricket Hall of Famer John Melbourne Presenting Veronica Campbell-Brown CD with a bouquet of flowers
NEW YORK, NY. Sunday, May 29, 2022– The formal affair on Saturday May 28,2022, at the Antun’s Banquet Hall in Queens Village, NY, to honor two of Jamaica’s iconic sports personalities from Track & Field Athletics in Veronica Campbell Brown (CD) and Donald Quarrie (CD), with Lifetime Achievement awards from all accounts was a huge success.
The event was to celebrate Comets Club International’s Forty-five years of service to the sports world.
Forty-five years ago the Montego Bay Comets Athletics Club was established on the campus of Cornwall College, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The Montego Bay Comets Athletics Club now Comets Club International celebrated the occasion with a grand reunion and awards gala, in New York City, on Saturday, May 28, 2022.
Past and present members, their families, close associates and friends of the Comets Club organization, attended the function.
The patrons were treated to a full course, Caribbean entrée and entertained by True Tribute All-Stars, a five-member ensemble, led by musicologist and saxophonist, LeRoy Graham. DJ Binghy (Ayon Kellier) of KillaStar Sound entertained the crowd with a variety of selections.
Michael Campbell, a former manager/coach of the running club in Montego Bay is now the international president, based out of Atlanta, Georgia.
UPCOMING EVENTS
CRICKET HALL OF FAME SIX-A -SIDE CRICKET TOURNAMENT JUNE 11-12
CRICKET HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY SATURDAY OCT.1, 2022
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