MORE THAN 1 000 people will be employed by a new Sam Lord’s Castle that will start taking shape in mid-2015.
And a similar number will be employed during the construction phase, which will run for 30 months.
Stuart Layne, chief executive officer of the Barbados Tourism Investment Inc., which is in charge of the development, made the disclosures yesterday after a tour of the 58-acre beachfront property in St Philip.
The government of China is funding the $400 million project to replace the historic attraction hit by a long closure and a fire.
