Not an ideal situation.
This is how president of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Eddy Abed, has described the 26-hour shutdown of Ionics Freshwater Ltd. (Desalination Plant) on Spring Garden. The operation ran from 8 p.m. Sunday until 10 o’clock last night. Areas affected included Bridgetown and its environs, Welches, Warrens and Sunset Crest.
Courts’ megastore in Bridgetown closed to business, along with its facility on Spring Garden. All Barbados Revenue Authority offices across the island stopped receiving payments at 1 p.m. closed fully at 2 p.m. The University of the West Indies had announced there would be no classes for the day.
“What we would have liked through the Chamber,” Abed told the DAILY NATION, “is dialogue; earlier dialogue so we could’ve informed our members. Secondly, perhaps some opportunity to impact on how the maintenance was going to be done, whether it could have been scheduled over evenings or perhaps on weekends.” (RA)
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