A Casino gaming bill is to be tabled in Parliament next week, Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced last night.

Golding told a town hall meeting at the Montego Bay Civic Centre that Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw would table the bill in the House of Representatives when the House meets again on Tuesday.

Golding said the Government was hoping to have the bill debated in July and passed into law, as there were at least two investments awaiting the legislative framework.

He said that the Government had already given an undertaking to two companies that it was prepared to formally consider their applications for casino licences - one for Montego Bay and one for Trelawny (Harmony Cove).

- JIS