It was tailor-made to make money for the single largest one night charity event in Jamaica. The Associated Hanover Charities (AHC) and not even the Venetians in Italy could have outdone the dynamic hardworking carnival committee last Saturday night.

The Venue was the fabulously elegant Round Hill Hotel, dressed up with floating gondolas, bamboo torches, stunning lights, tables decorated with colorful Venetian masks complemented by magnificent candelabras, a sumptuous Italian fare and dancing to the music of the sensational Cindy Lewis and the band Sahaba.

This time around, the organizers were bent on raising the over US$125,000 that they raised last year. A year that saw the group providing meals and books for schools, equipment for hospitals, homes and the handicapped.

This year’s auction saw an array of work donated by the Western Jamaica Society of Fine Artists, two long banquet tables were lined with some of the most magnificent pieces any auction could boast.