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Penn Relays: Team Jamaica Bickle
Above, Mr Irwine Clare sr, the founder and CEO of Team Jamaica Bickle, speaks to an enthusiastic crowd gathered to fund-raise and talk about the good work Team Jamaica Bickle does helping Jamaican athletes come to Philadelphia every spring. Jamaican athletes have participated in Penn Relays since 1964. In 1994, Mr Clare's organization started fundraising to help the athletes financially and provide food in a tent during the 3 days of events. On the right, the tent in 2009. The pictures of the Penn Relays on this page, I took in 2009.

Below, member of the Philadelphia Mayor's Commission on African and Caribbean Affairs, dietitian Ms Carlene Bowen. Ms Bowen is a daughter of Jamaica and a former runner and a long-time organizer of Team Jamaica Bickle.
A keen participant in the 3-day hospitality program include daughter of Trinidad and Tobago, Ms Miranda Alexander, who runs the educational program UROC click here
Ms Barbara Wilson organizes the annual Philadelphia Caribbean Festival on the waterfront in Philadelphia every August, and is helped by many other members of the Philadelphia Caribbean community click here
The monthly meetings of the Philadelphia Mayor's Commission on African and Caribbean Affairs always has a Caribbean cheering section, which includes Ms Barbara Watson, Ms Yvonne O'Garro, Ms Carlene Bowen, Ms Miranda Alexander, Dr Camille Ragin, Rev Gilda Jean-Louis and others, some of whom are shown in the picture below. "Bickle" means a little bit of food.
News from the countries of the Caribbean click here