The scores of long-suffering employees of the Barbados Advocate who have not been paid for close to a year were told by management this week that a new High Court order to release their funds would be served on the bank early next week.Barbados TODAY understands that the Acting Managing Director Sean Eteen met on Thursday with the staff and updated them on the court’s decision to discharge two previous orders that effectively froze the company’s bank accounts after a legal dispute broke out between director Gail Sherry Anne Padmore and the surviving sons of the late owner Sir Anthony Bryan.One worker who attended the meeting reported that they were advised not to start rejoicing too soon even though the injunction that blocked access to the company funds was lifted last December.“The crux of the matter now is that there was an order to which the judge placed his signature and they said that the court would actually serve that on CIBC. But we were told to temper our expectations because of certain challenges that were experienced in December when management tried to access the money,” the worker said.
