| Robert Badal, owner of Pegasus Hotel and a leading investor in the industry, is calling on Marriott Hotel to stop pouching employees from local entities.Winston BrassingtonPegasus Hotel’s owner, Robert BadalPresidentDonald RamotarHe is also asking President Donald Ramotar to disclose to the nation details of the 500 new jobs he promised that Marriott Hotel would be creating,Authentic China NFL Jerseys, in an attempt to justify the US$57M being spent.Badal disclosed that all of the executive management personnel recruited by Marriott are foreigners.“In recruiting lower level staff, Marriott is pouching staff from reputable local businesses in Georgetown including the Pegasus Hotel. One city hotel has even banned Marriott Hotel’s officials from entering its compound because of unethical practices in pouching its employees.”The businessman disclosed that Marriott is tempting its employees with much larger salaries which are being covered not by Marriott but the Guyanese taxpayers.“In addition to generous fiscal concessions of a ten-year holiday of no corporate tax, no withholding tax, no property tax,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, no tax on consumables and capital renewal, the Government is now paying for salaries of well-paid expats and other staff. This puts all hotels in Georgetown at a highly uncompetitive position,” Badal said.The businessman pointed out that local hotels have invested their own money with bank financing and have over the years contributed significantly to tax revenue of the local economy, earning foreign exchange and creating employment.“If Marriott wants to operate a hotel in Guyana it must invest its own money.”Badal called on the Ramotar administration to stop spending the taxes Guyanese pay on the Marriott Hotel. The businessman had earlier this month offered to invest US$8M in Marriott to become the 67 percent equity shareholder,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, but Government refused.Owner of Pegasus Hotel has accused the nearby Marriott Hotel of deliberately stealing his workers.Government had formed a special company, Atlantic Hotel Inc. (AHI), which is managing the construction and shares of the company. Under the financing arrangement, Government invested just over US$20M and was looking to raise US$27M more from a syndicated loan arranged by Republic Bank Trinidad. Another US$8M would have been coming from two Hong Kong businessmen. However a court case filed by Member of Parliament, Desmond Trotman, blocking the transfer of the land,http://www.soccerpro.us.com/England/, has held up those monies.The US$8M would have controversially allowed the two Hong Kong businessmen to gain a 67 percent control of the hotel. But that investment is held up by the court case.Government has remained silent where it found the monies to carry on construction as the hotel is set to open in a few months time.The Opposition has been asking, but Head of AHI Winston Brassington,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, and Government, have refused to answer. The extravagant incentives and other benefits to Marriott have left other hotel operators extremely worried as the new 197-room hotel in Kingston,Stitched NFL Jerseys, when it comes on stream this year, is more than likely to close them down.Last month, Brassington admitted that financing for the project was in jeopardy because of the court case filed by Opposition Member of Parliament, Desmond Trotman. |
