They arrived in droves starting at 5:30 a.m., desperate to secure a steady pay cheque. By midmorning, the anxious mob totalled 5,000 people. Sandals, a Caribbean hotel chain, was hosting a job fair in Barbados to hire staff for a brand new resort. Because thousands of...
[caption id="attachment_23597" align="alignleft" width="300"] Minister of Transport, Works and Maintenance Dr William Duguid says businesses are paying much less in corporation tax so they should be able to afford to give workers more money.[/caption] Even as Government reduces how much it pays in wages by sending...
Premier Mark Brantley says an estimated EC$60 million (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) is needed to develop the stalled geothermal project on the island. “I think that at this stage all of us know that what we’ve been waiting on is for production of the energy and...
DETROIT -- There's plenty of mediocrity in the Eastern Conference this season, and the Detroit Pistons are taking advantage. Blake Griffin scored 30 points and Stanley Johnson added 21 to lift the Pistons to a 115-108 victory over the New York Knicks on Tuesday night. Reggie Jackson...
Protesters shut down parts of an Alabama highway on Monday in response to the fatal police shooting of a young black man. Led by Carlos Chaverst Jr., president of the activist organization Justice League, the demonstrators halted traffic along Highway 31 by the Riverchase Galleria mall...