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BHTA optimistic more entities will sign on BEST
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by Marlon Madden
As Cabinet gets ready to approve changes to a plan that was set up to help keep tourism industry workers employed, and with a dramatic reduction in tourism arrivals, more hoteliers have been applying for financial assistance.
Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Senator Rudy Grant reported that to date some 55 hotels have applied for assistance under the Barbados Employment and Sustainable Transformation (BEST) programme, with 40 of them being approved.
Under the employment component, businesses are expected to re-hire all of their workers on 80 per cent or their normal salary for up to two years, should the need arise.