After six months without pay, a dozen employees of Canada-based mining company Mahdia Gold Corporation (MGC) yesterday decided that enough was enough and staged a protest to demand the company pay them for their labour.
Following the protest at the company’s offices at Barrack Street, Kingston, one of the workers, Nigel Bacchus, said they were given partial payments. When this newspaper asked Bacchus if the protestors were still employed at the MGC, he was not certain.
But when contacted, Allan Zaakir, the former Chief Executive Officer who is now described as MGC’s Managing Director, said the