LIAT employees complain of being laid off without pay || NUPW calls on the Barbados Government to address issue
Some Barbados-based employees of regional airline LIAT complain they have been laid off for three months without pay and have recently been told they will be out of work for a further three months. And they are seeking answers from the Barbados government, the majority shareholder of the Antigua-based intra-regional carrier. The National Union of […]
Barbados looks set to resume commercial flights next month
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley was today chairing a meeting of the social partnership with a key issue being plans for a full reopening of the country, including the resumption of commercial flights which seems set for early next month. Highly placed sources in local aviation confirm that a UK charter operation Caldonia Jets […]
COVID-19 UPDATE: ONE NEW CASE TODAY
A 49-year-old Barbadian woman, repatriated from a cruise liner on which she worked, is the island’s latest COVID-19 positive patient. Hers was the only positive test among 174 done yesterday. The woman, who arrived home on a charter flight last Saturday, was swabbed on arrival at the Grantley Adams International Airport and immediately went into […]