Contractor stipulated Chinese labour for Marriott construction, says Brassington

Winston Brassington

CEO of Atlantic Hotels Inc Winston Brassington stated that it is a condition of the contract with Shanghai Construction Group – the contractor building the Marriott Hotel – that the labour be from China at least in the first instance and called for the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) to look at the bigger picture.

Brassington was quoted as saying by the Government Information Agency (GINA) that the use of a mostly Chinese labour force to construct the multi-million dollar Marriott Hotel was just one of several conditionalities necessary