Stewart

The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) kicks off Journalism Week tomorrow with the holding of the annual Veterans' Luncheon, sponsored by Wray and Nephew Limited. This year, the association will honour media practitioners Hartley Neita, Ken Chaplin and Ken Jones for long and faithful service in the field of journalism.

On Tuesday morning, the PAJ holds its inaugural Media Prayer Breakfast, sponsored by Jamaica National, at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston. The sermon will be delivered by Dr. Herbert Thompson, president of the Northern Caribbean University, which is operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

The week's activities climax on Friday with the staging of the Scotiabank-sponsored National Journalism Awards Banquet at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel, where the winners in a dozen categories of media practice will be announced. Keynote speaker for this event is Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, hotelier and publisher of the Jamaica Observer.