Hotel Tower workers win $10M award from court

Former employees of the Hotel Tower expressed relief and elation as a court last week ordered the payment of over $10 million in wages, salaries and severance owed to them after the hotel abruptly closed last year.

“The Father don’t sleep, so we expected it but didn’t believe it would be so soon. I am happy plus thankful,” a former housekeeper at the now newly sold hotel told Stabroek News.

Attorney Nadia Samuels who represented the former Ministry of Labour in leading a defence for the 19 owed workers, stated that