Day: 17 October 2019

SkyCity Entertainment has rejected the claims of the Unite Union that 100 Convention Centre jobs are put at risk. As revealed by a representative of the union that acts on behalf of the operator’s employees, some senior managers had already been dismissed by the operator. The Unite Union further noted that SkyCity has been making arrangements to talk with the representatives of the workers about future redundancies and workers’ wages. Joe Carolan, a senior organiser at the Unite Union, said that a lay-off process is currently on at SkyCity, so…

A businessman who the United Nations had banned from travel due to him providing financial and military support to Charles Taylor, a Liberian war criminal, has been one of the high-rollers who have been allowed to gamble millions in the Crown Resorts’ VIP rooms. Crown Resorts does not seem to have been bothered by the fact that Joseph Wong Kiia Tai was subject to international sanctions, despite the United Nations’ Security Council 2004 decision to put him on their travel and financial blacklist for helping Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, who…