While stressing that Government will do whatever it can to protect the 500 workers at Almond Beach Village who soon will be on the breadline, Cabinet minister Denis Kellman says the Barbados Labour Party (BLP)?administration has to take some of the blame for the hotel’s demise.
Delivering the feature address at a St James South branch meeting of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) at Wanstead, St Michael, yesterday evening, Kellman said the impending hotel closure could have been averted had the BLP?acted on some suggestions he made.
“We are not going to allow 500 workers to suffer in this country, even if we have to talk to some other hotels and work with them. We will have to find a plan,” he told the gathering.
Kellman said the last BLP Government allowed Almond to buy two hotels in St Lucia and miss out on repairing the resort here in St Peter.
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