Around 80% of hotel employees retrenched
Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association, Senator Rudy Grant reports that based on a survey of the majority of hotels, about 80% of the hotel employees have been laid off. He expects the disruption of the sector to persist for a while with a slow recovery. Senator Grant also noted the […]
Gas station auto marts to reopen || Plastic bags ban lifted
Service station auto-marts have now been allowed to reopen and the ban on plastic bags has been lifted. This was disclosed by Acting Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw in an interview with Starcom Network News. Meantime, she reports things went generally well as supermarkets, banks and hardware stores reopened to the public this morning under the […]