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We wonder how many Barbadians who flocked to the Pierhead, Bridgetown branch of Massy Stores last weekend, realised that they were witnessing what could be the beginning of one of the most consequential developments in the island’s recent history?The closure of the consumer goods store, which has its origins with the defunct Manning, Wilkinson and Challenor store some 80 years ago, is now making way for the realisation of the long-mooted Pierhead Development Project.The Pierhead Project, as it was referred to, was billed as the development of developments. It was an ambitious and transformative initiative that would be even more impactful than what the Limegrove has had on the quaint enclave of Holetown in St James.
December 11, 2020
A national minimum wage, variable across industries, much talked about but never implemented, appears to have emerged from a deal to end the Barbados Workers’ Union’s standoff with guard firm G4S Solutions (Barbados) Ltd over pay.
After four days of negotiations, Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced “a seminal moment” in labour history in which the Government would move to a national pay floor by April while G4S agreed to raise its security officers’ wages from $7.42 an hour to $8.79 an hour from January 1.
The guards went on strike twice within the last two weeks to protest G4S’s refusal to give them a raise for the past six years, prompting the BWU to threaten a general strike.