Hotel workers still have not received severance
Article by May 13, 2021
It’s beginning to feel like deja vu for former employees of the Accra Beach Hotel and Spa and some of their colleagues from the Hilton Barbados Resort and Spa as they wrestle once again with their former bosses for outstanding severance pay.
A group of over two dozen hospitality workers lined the entrance of the Hilton’s Needham’s Point property demanding assistance from Prime Minister Mia Mottley, Minister of Labour Colin Jordan and Tourism Minister Senator Lisa Cummins.
Over 100 ex-Accra workers who were laid off at the start of the pandemic more than a year ago, are yet to receive between 25-30 per cent of outstanding severance along with payment in lieu of notice.
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.
► Back when we profiled Lewis Hamilton
► It s 2002 and he s entering Formula Renault
As Lewis Hamilton scores his extraordinary seventh F1 world championship in 2020 s pandemic-stricken winter of discontent, we leaf through our near 60-year back catalogue to pick out an early interview with the motorsport ace. It s a damp bank holiday morning at Brands Hatch in 2002 and CAR s go-to motorsport reporter Jeremy Hart is spending the day with Hamilton and his family to uncover the steely potential of this precocious talent. Read on for the full interview.
The full CAR magazine interview with the young Lewis Hamilton, July 2002
Defining moments in sporting history normally come wrapped with the pomp of a coronation, the aural barrage of a boy band gig and the chest-thumping excitement of gladiatorial combat. They don’t normally come cloaked in a damp spring mist soon after a battleship grey dawn in a tented village just off the M20 motorway in Kent.