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NIS joins race to make payments before Christmas Day
Article by December 24, 2020
The Ministry of Tourism, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and a handful of hoteliers are locked in a race against time to deliver thousands in outstanding severance payments in time for Christmas.
Minister of Tourism and International Transport Senator Lisa Cummins told
Barbados TODAY that the Accra Beach Hotel and Spa has finally agreed to pay its former employees. The Government senator has also confirmed that NIS officials are working around the clock to deliver 100 per cent of the funds owed to severed employees of the Hilton Barbados.
Efficient airport checks in Barbados put the UK to shame
The UK s abysmal lack of Covid checks on arrivals is shameful
15 December 2020 • 12:29pm
Our author is shocked at how much more efficient Barbados is than the UK, when it comes to Covid security protocols
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During a lengthy queue last evening at Bridgetown’s international airport in Barbados, the almost criminal lack of coronavirus arrival procedures upon entering the UK was put into shameful context.
It’s been well-documented UK arrivals aren’t required to present negative PCR tests. This alone is unfathomable. Add to this, the lack of thermal scanners to test arriving passengers’ temperatures, despite the veracity of this procedure’s effectiveness. Instead, the only shield offered against the importation of coronavirus is an online Passenger Locator Form, that, since early July having re-entered the UK from ten overseas assignments, I have never once been asked to show at immigration, let alone b
December 11, 2020
Former workers at the Savannah Hotel should soon be paid their severance, Prime Minister Mia Mottley revealed Thursday.
She said while there were some “complications” at the hotel, she expected the severed workers to be paid by owner Bernie Weatherhead.
Just last week, the famed South Coast hotel’s ex-employees joined forces with fellow severed employees of Accra Beach Hotel and Spa and Hilton Barbados Resort to protest thousands of unpaid to them.
She told journalists at Ilaro Court: “We are working and I believe those at Savannah and the Ministry of Tourism have been meeting and I hope that Mr Weatherhead speaks to the country if he has not already done so today, but he needs to speak to the country and to the workers and to contextualize his position.