The current vaccination is no longer an exemption for testing.

But this is quite disgusting. Many people are workign short hours on minimum or just above minimum wage, so the weekly take home pay is below 210, and now the anywhere from 20-35 dollars must be borne by employee.

These hotels should be ashamed of sending people home with 150 per week.

But people are already quitting jobs who are required to pay for testing.

This man needs to be sent on the walk of shame.

So it seems like anyone who doesn't go along with your views or narrative is either a sellout or a Uncle Tom.

Umm how do you think those hotels will pay for the test. They don't have a magic money tree. And yes of course all that money saved would not be given out in salary or bonus but some of it will

Sure they will pay bonus. To the managers.

They need to raise the room rates. Simple. Will that mean less tourists? Yes, of course. Well then remove the stupid testing requirement.

Did the New Day government campaign on free testing? He should be calling out the government to hold to the promise.

Someone needs to vaccinate Dr Death Fauci but prophecy must be fulfilled

he should take 666 doses

Word on the street is that people are presenting with Covid symptoms like chest pains, dry cough and lost of taste. But the rapid Covid tests are coming back negative even as the symptoms get worse. Some end up in the hospital and and only after taking the other test do they test positive for Covid.

If you have symptoms, insist the Dr does more testing and start you on treatment

I read that thousands of bad antigen tests were brought from India. That may be the source of some persons testing negative when they were indeed positive. We all need to be careful and protect ourselves.

The unions will fight like hell NOT to give up any advantages/rights that they have. The Govt did make the promise of "free testing", but we all know that was unsustainable. So, Sands will have to pull his strings to get out of that.

TALKN A BUNCH A SHIAT

"...because that is a cost that can go toward hiring additional people and making the company more productive.”

Dont need a cost. Remove the stupid and useless testing requirement. Why is everyone so anxious to make big chemical companies rich and they themselves can't even pay light bill?

Isn't it about time for the free testing promised to kick in now? Once the government keeps that promise, this issue should be resolved. What's taking so long for the free testing to start?

The government should be doing free testing and giving people at home test kits, so they can test at their convenience.

It is a PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE it is not right that for private entities to have to suffer the costs for something that The Bahamas Ministry of Health should be doing and is being PAID to do that job.

Just like after Hurricanes, the private sector does the governments work for them, the government takes all the credit.

We pay civil Servants for decades to do their jobs, but when it comes down to it, corporate Bahamas has to bail out our wutlass gub'ment. Pathetic.

Sometimes you really have to wonder what people like Sandy Sands is get their gender hormones from. Notice how lopsided his argument is. That the staff pay for their tests but not the guests. Firstly, the tests are being taken to frequently for staff and this escalates the costs with no tangible benefits. Iig Covid doesn’t show up in a test until 3-5 days after a person contracts the virus the frequency of testing can be refused. Secondly it is the guess that be walking around without masks so it is on them to protect themselves. Thirdly is is the workers who usually contract the virus from the guests, so why should they have to PAY for working in a harzardous work environment ? AND if ALL guests are supposed to be vaccinated and IF the vaccines are supposedly so effective then why should workers be treated like lepers when the basically pose no risk to the guests?

BORIS JOHNSON says there will be no more mask wearing mandates, no more forced vaccinations requirement, no more mandatory isolations for persons who test positive for Covid, among other things. Many of these people will become guests at Bah Mayr and other properties in The Bahamad. Why then should employees bear the cost of being tested when the risk is not of their own making? They already following the safety protocols

And dozens of Bahamian families who chose to stay at major hotel properties over the holidays caught Covid. Basically entire families came down with the virus and had to be quarantined. Some family members had to be hospitalized.

On the one hand, the hotels are bragging about their bookings being ‘record breaking’ post Covid. So it also follows that their profits have been record breaking. So why try to pass more costs on their employees who have been the sacrificial lambs during the pandemic? And yes Covid is still around. Not only did Bahamians who stayed at major resorts get infected with Covid, entire families, but entire staff who worked at cruise ports on the Family Islands come down with Covid. Did government stop reporting Covid cases to protect the tourist industry? And what is the benefit of taking Covid vaccines if you haven’t already taken them? Doesn’t the risks outweigh the benefits? And that is part of the problem in the hotels and on cruise ships. Vaccines do not cure or prevent Covid, but suppresses the symptoms, so vaccinated people will not always test positive when they have the virus, so they walk around affecting others. And because their symptoms are suppressed, they may die from damage to organs done by the virus. So their deaths are not classified as Covid related.