Luxury travel company Knutsford Express has been expanding its courier services for which there is rising demand, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
“In response to revenue growth and increased demand for our courier services, we have opened two new courier hubs, the first of which is at Drax Hall and the second on Washington Boulevard in Kingston,” the company stated in its recent financial results.
Passenger traffic, however, continues to decline.
For the second quarter ended November 2020, revenues declined by 41.7 per cent compared to the similar period in 2019, falling from $282.7 million to $149.5 million.
Knutsford nonetheless, continues to employ best practices to address the potential risks to passengers, customers and staff.
‘Drop Drax Hall’
Article by January 7, 2021
A British pressure group has teamed up with the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration (CMPI) to back the CARICOM Reparation Commission’s (CRC) call for the estate where sugar was introduced in Barbados more than 350 years ago to be restored to Barbadians as an act of reparations.
Stand Up to Racism Dorset has called on wealthy Tory MP Richard Drax, who represents South Dorset, to deal urgently with the matter.
The two groups discussed the matter on Tuesday, a letter from Philip Marfleet, on behalf of Stand Up to Racism Dorset has confirmed.
ANTI-RACIST groups called on Tory MP Richard Drax today to restore his family’s sugar plantation in Barbados to the people of the island.
They wrote to the South Dorset MP after leading public figures in the Caribbean called on him to relinquish the Drax Hall estate.
The Drax family have held land in Barbados since the 17th century. Generations of African slaves worked on the estate. Mr Drax inherited it from his father.
Reparations Commission in the Caribbean chairman professor Sir Hilary Beckles said: “The Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other family.”
A WEALTHY Dorset MP has seen his family business included on a government list of “rogue employers” who failed to pay the national minimum wage. Richard Drax, Conservative member for South Dorset, is director of the Morden Estates Company, which runs the Charborough Estate. The business was found to have underpaid 43 workers by a total of £2,761. The MP has said the “technical infringement” concerned “beaters” – people who drive game birds out of their cover at shooting events. He said they traditionally took part for enjoyment but had been paid a “modest sum”. The breach landed the Morden Estates Company on a list of 139 businesses included in a government press release, headed “Rogue employers named and shamed for failing to pay minimum wage”.