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Allan
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Alberga
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Allan E. Alberga
President, AJA 2005-present
Attorney at law in private practice in Atlanta since 1991.
Trained in England between 1963 and 1970- holds Bachelor of Laws
degree (London) Barrister (Lincoln's Inn) member of bar of
England and Wales since 1965; Admitted to bar in Jamaica in
1970; attended Georgia State and John Marshall law schools,
received Juris Doctoris (Hons) in 1990, member of Georgia State
bar since 1991. Received British Government diploma in
International Trade, Legal Drafting 1976. Worked in Supreme
Court, Attorney General's Office, Legal Reform, State Trading
Corporation in Jamaica. Legal Advisor, Jamaican High Commission,
London 1970-76. Certified Mediator and Arbitrator in Georgia
since 1988. Licensed Insurance Agent in Georgia 1988; Georgia
certified soccer referee. Member of Atlanta Jamaican Association
since 1989; president in 1994. Member of Atlanta Caribbean
Association between 1990-2006. Born in Kingston, graduated from
St. George's College, represented school in cricket and soccer,
played cricket at senior cup level for Kensington and St.
George's Old Boys for years, trials to represent Jamaica, just
before leaving for studies abroad.
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Trevor Augustus Smith
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Trevor Augustus Smith
Vice President
Professionally, Trevor is currently engaged in marketing and sales. He sharpened
these skills while active as a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of
New York and later as the representative of Caribbean Process Food Corporation on
the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and Industry where he played a major roll, particularly
in its fund raising activities.
From an early age, he took an active interest in
community affairs. He served the Jamaica Red Cross as a volunteer and subsequently
joined the Kingston Jaycees.
In Atlanta, he was Vice President of the Caribbean Action Council – a body formed
to pursue a political agenda on behalf of Caribbean nationals – and was chairman
of the Political Action Committee of the Council. He also served as Caribbean representative
on the Multi-cultural Committee - a group consisting of some
twenty-five ethnic groups, set up by then Governor Roy
Barnes to promote intercultural cooperative
projects in Atlanta. Trevor is a founding member of the Jamaican folk singing group,
the Sugar Canes – established in Atlanta by Mrs. Sybil Leslie to promote the Jamaican
culture.
Through his membership in the Atlanta Jamaican Association, Trevor continues to
find opportunities for community work. He served the Association as
committee member, committee chair and Trustee before being elected to his present position –that of
Vice President of the Association.
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Joy Boothe
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Joy Boothe
Treasurer
Joy-Marie Boothe became a member of the Atlanta Jamaican
Association in 1998 shortly after relocating from New York. An
Accountant by profession, she has held the office of Vice
President and has chaired the Family Relations and Finance and
Fundraising Committees. This native Kingstonian is the current
Treasurer and is also a member of the Caribbean Sports Club.
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George Aird
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George Aird
Assistant Treasurer
George Aird is currently a banker with a local Community Bank and has worked in
the financial services industry for over thirty years. Work related experience in
Jamaica includes: National Meteorological Service(Weather Radar Operator);
Jamaica Mutual Life(Life Underwriter); Life of Barbados Ja, Ltd.(Principal Officer).
Since relocating to the US in the mid 1980,s, George has worked in various positions
with major financial services corporations in NY,Fl and Ga .
George was born in Hanover
and is a graduate of Rusea's High School. He is also a
Chartered Life Underwriter,
and a graduate of the Caribbean Meteorological Institute(Barbados), Life Management
Institute(Atlanta), and Mercer University's Stetson School
of Business & Economics(Atlanta). A former Vice President of Rusea's
Old Students Assoc.(Florida), George currently serves as a Welcome Minister at Sts
Peter and Paul Catholic church in Decatur. George is married with three adult children.
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Sylvia Ricketts
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Sylvia Ricketts
Secretary
Sylvia Ricketts was born in St James, Jamaica, and migrated
to the United States in 1984. She has been affiliated with
the Atlanta Jamaican Association since then. She is serving as
the Secretary of the Association and Chair of the Education
Committee, but is not new to AJA's Executive. She served
as Secretary in 1994 and 1995 and is the founder of the
Organizations scholarship Fund.
Ms Ricketts earned a Bachelors Degree from the University of the
West Indies, Mona,and a Masters Degree in Business
Administration from the University of Miami.
She is an
educator and has worked in the educational arena for many years,
teaching in Jamaica, the Bahamas and the United States.
She is presently employed as a teacher of Mathematics with the
Fulton County Board of Education. Working with voluntary
organizations is not new to Ms Ricketts. She is well known
for her work among the Jaycees of Jamaica, having served as
Secretary for two years to the St. Andrew Jaycees in Kingston,
Jamaica, before migrating to the Bahamas. She has also
worked with Bahamian Jaycees and was very involved with the
Kiwanis Clubs of the Bahamas, where she served as Key Club
Advisor to Junior Kiwanians. Her dream for the Atlanta
Jamaican Association is to hav e all the sister Jamaican
organizations in Metropolitan Atlanta united under a
single umbrella of the Atlanta Jamaican Association.
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Casmel Williams
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Casmel Williams
Assistant Secretary
A fifteen (15) year member of the Atlanta Jamaican
Association, Casmel has served as Secretary of the
Association during the Presidency of Astley and the Presidency
of Derrick Harvey, after which she served as chairperson of the
Family Relations Committee. During the period of an
interim Board she was asked to serve as Secrretary of the
Association under the Interim President, Derrick Wright.
Casmel is a member of the cultural group the Sugar Canes.
She is a Dekalb County employee with over ten (10) years of
service in the field of law. She is married to Ranny Williams
and both are active members of the White Oaks Baptist Church.
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Winston Henry
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Winston Henry
Parliamentarian
Winston is currently a Mechanical Engineer, specializing
in Packaging Machinery, with a food packaging company in
Atlanta
. Originally from
St. Ann, Jamaica
, Winston graduated from
York Castle High school
in Brown’s Town.
He worked with Barclays Bank
Jamaica
before attending the
College of Arts
, Science and Technology (now U-Tech) to earn a Diploma in Mechanical Technology. Winston then worked with Reynolds Jamaica
Mines for two years and then went on to attend
Penn State University
. Winston graduated from Rochester
Institute of Technology (R.I.T) with a Bs in Mechanical Technology.
Winston is married to Joycelyn, has three young
adult children, and is a member of the
Greenforest Community Baptist Church
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Dawnet Dunbar
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Dawnet Dunbar
Trustee
Dawnet officially joined the AJA in 1990 and has been an active
member ever since. She served as Secretary, twice as Vice
President and is presently serving as a Trustee for the third time.
She has chaired both the Membership and Social committees in the
past. At the same time she is an active member of the Atlanta
Montego Bay Sister Cities Committee and each year travels with
the Health Mission to Montego Bay. She is a Charter member of
the National Council of Negro Women, Dekalb Chapter. Dawnet is a
Medical Office Administrator and has been with the same company
for twenty years.
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Astley Leslie
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Astley Leslie
Trustee
Astley is a certified Conflict Resolution Specialist
registered with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution. He is
a founding member of the Association for Conflict Resolution -
Georgia Chapter He previously served as Permanent Secretary in
the Jamaica Ministry of Social Security and the Ministry
of Labor before joining the International Labor Organization –
an agency of the United Nations Organization – to establish, and develop over a fifteen
year period, the Caribbean Labor Administration Center in
Barbados.
Astley joined the Atlanta Jamaican Association in
1993, served as its President in 1995 and from 1997 to 2000 and
chaired its Constitution Committee in 2005 and 2006. He was instrumental in revising and updating the By
Laws of the Association. These revised By Laws were adopted by the quarterly members
meeting held in January 2007. He is a founding member of the Sugar Canes - a Jamaican folk
singing group established in Atlanta to promote the Jamaican culture He is
currently serving as a Trustee of the Association for the second
consecutive year. Astley holds the degrees of
Bachelor of Science(Economics) and Master of Science (Personnel
and Employment Relations). He is married and has two grown
daughters.
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STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS
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Membership
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Dr. Edna Tulloch
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Finance
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Derrick Harvey
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Education
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Sylvia Ricketts
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Family Relations
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Copeland Comrie
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Building
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Dr. Juan Reid
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Public Relations and Marketing
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Sandra Lee Gammon |
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