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3 holidays too many for business persons – Mrs Eileen L. Parsons, OBE
During a discourse with members of the Rotary Club of Tortola on July 31, 2014, she was giving an historical reflection of how the many holidays came into being but insisted that it is time that is changed in the interest of businesses in the Virgin Islands.
“I am saying and one of the messages in the booklet will say that it is time to rethink, business people can no longer afford three back-to-back holidays whether we want to believe it or not it is not financially sound,” she said.
Having given the background she asked the rhetorical question of who or which area it was going to be taken from. She had told the Rotarians that the second day August Tuesday came about because of the water sports activities and horse races that were held on that day.
“Well people from East End said that well if Road Town could have two days, We want a holiday and Mr Terrence Lettsome, a blessed memory, he argued and he politicked and East End got the third day,” she recalled.
“As it stands now you have four holidays because nobody goes to work on Thursday, they go Carrot Bay and then something is going to spring up on Friday so they going to have to give us the whole week off,” she opined.
She said it is now a very serious issue that needs to be looked at. “Let us face it and you all are businessmen (Rotarians) and you very well know that you do not like to have to pay your workers three days and they staying home, it does not make financial sense,” she insisted.
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61 Responses to “3 holidays too many for business persons – Mrs Eileen L. Parsons, OBE”
Yet, it is a country with some of the most wealthy.
So it's that what that tr.itor gone to rotary to do behind our backs???
ms pa..ons aint working but she still getting full pay , she is been driven about in a white caravan at tax payers expense. is that right?
Says the elderly lady who doesn't have to work another day in her life! No disrespect intended, but she sounds like a "house n...a."
I HOPE THIS DOES NOT COME TO PAST.