Published 28 December 2020

Basseterre

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

In 2012, George Lucas gave up his baby. The man behind Star Wars, a space opera series you might have heard of, sold Lucasfilm and all of its assets, including that same space opera series, to Disney, a company you might have heard of. Lucas had been a chief architect of two separate Star Wars trilogies and was starting to look at a third — until this decision was made, and we got the ending to the Skywalker Saga that we got. What prompted this decision? Why wouldn’t he want to see how his brainchild ended?

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Published 7 December 2020

Basseterre

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

By Nehal Chaliawala

Synopsis

Not only that, the compensation for overtime should be at least twice that of the employees’ regular pay, as per the Code on Wages, 2019. Currently, there are several laws, giving diverse thresholds and different definitions of ‘wages’ for applicability of overtime pay, which will all be streamlined under the new codes.

Professionals putting in extra hours at work may have something to cheer for in the new labour codes as the new law, if implemented in its entirety, would widen the purview of overtime pay to include all employees, including managerial staff.

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Published 19 November 2020

Buckie Got It,

Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

UK to ban sales of new diesel and gasoline cars in 2030

By Charles Riley, CNN Business

Updated 1058 GMT (1858 HKT) November 18, 2020

London (CNN Business)The United Kingdom will ban the sale of new cars that run only on fossil fuels in 2030, a move that is designed to phase out polluting vehicles earlier than any other major economy and support the country’s recovery from the pandemic. 

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