Unions enter debate on MPs salaries
The following are excerpts of a submission to the Parliamentary Salaries Review Committee...

Ghanaians to take part in Maroon celebration
A LARGE 20-member delegation from the mountainous Kwahu range in the Asante region of Ghana will visit Jamaica for the first time this year to celebrate Quao Day, June 23, with the Windward Maroons led by the Charles Town Maroon community.

Refocusing MPs salaries debate
THE PARLIAMENTARY Salaries Review Committee is expected to complete its report by the end of next month and the nation awaits its recommendations with boundless anticipation.

More dads' names now on kids' birth certificates
AN INCREASING number of Jamaican fathers are coming forward to have their names added to their children's birth certificates, according to the Jamaica Information Service (JIS).

Tourism image needs change, says Assamba
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER OF Tourism and Industry, Aloun N'Dombet Assamba, believes Jamaica's tourism players have some work to do to dispel the perception that "we are (only) an expensive all-inclusive destination."

Phillips to address Church on crime
MINISTER OF National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips, will address the Church on measures being taken by the Government to curb crime and violence during the Pan Jamaica Leaders' Conference at the Northern Caribbean University in Mandeville next Sunday.

Credit union awards grants to schoolers
TWENTY-FIVE STUDENTS from high schools in St. Catherine were recently awarded grants totalling $250,000 by the St. Catherine Co-operative Credit Union as part of the celebration of the institution's 25th anniversary.

Businessman gets suspended term for manslaughter
A BUSINESSMAN has been given a three-year suspended sentence and his driver's licence suspended for three years, after pleading guilty in the Home Circuit Court to causing death by dangerous driving.

Tax Measures C'ttee being sidelined - Shaw
AUDLEY SHAW, JLP spokes-man on finance, says the work of the Parliamentary Committee on Tax Measures was being sidelined by Dr. Omar Davies, the Minister of Finance and Planning...

Police, civilian die in traffic accidents
SERGEANT EVERARD Forbes, 50, who was assigned to the Greater Portmore police station, south St. Catherine, died yesterday from injuries he suffered on Saturday in a three-vehicle accident on the Old Harbour main road.

Seaga says a JLP win would right the balance
EDWARD SEAGA, the JLP leader, says that this Thursday's Local Government Elections would be an opportunity for Jamaicans to correct what, he said, were some of the mistakes made in October when the People's National Party was elected...