Over 500 severed Jolly Beach workers are in line to start receiving their severance cheques by Friday 7th October, 2022, just in time for the start of the peak tourism season. “We signed today with the Barrett Group to immediately start work on the Jolly Beach property. The aim of…
A ray of hope for former workers of the Jolly Beach Resort who have been put on notice that they may soon receive their long-awaited severance payments. This after Prime Minister Gaston Browne disclosed over the weekend that the government is making progress on the sale of the derelict property,…
The embarrassing way in which this incumbency has been exposed reminds us of the Holy Scriptures, and the line from Hosea 8:7: “They have sown the wind, they are now reaping the whirlwind.” This simply means that the brilliant intellectuals in our Parliament have engaged in a great deal of…
By Orville Williams orville.williams@antiguaobserver.com Questions are still being asked about the payment of millions of dollars owed in severance to former employees of the Jolly Beach Resort as the government continues efforts to reopen the hotel for the upcoming winter tourism season. More than two years after the once-thriving resort…
The ruling Antigua Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) held its convention here this past weekend, and it passed with a whimper. Unless you were a diehard party faithful, you would not have known that this wondrous event was even happening. Of course, there were two reasons for the utterly ordinary…