Pres­sure is mount­ing over the fu­ture of the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, with the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) warn­ing that hun­dreds of work­ers face grow­ing un­cer­tain­ty ahead of a Ju­ly 16 dead­line tied to the ho­tel’s op­er­a­tional sta­tus.

CWU sec­re­tary gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer said the union has for­mal­ly raised alarm af­ter re­ceiv­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion from man­age­ment in­di­cat­ing that the cur­rent gov­ern­ment ex­ten­sion for the prop­er­ty will ex­pire in mid-Ju­ly, with no clear in­di­ca­tion of what will fol­low. Ogeer said work­ers have en­dured years of shift­ing time­lines and unan­swered ques­tions about promised ren­o­va­tions and the long-term fu­ture of the ho­tel, adding that up to 250 em­ploy­ees could be af­fect­ed if op­er­a­tions are scaled back or closed.

She al­so ques­tioned the sta­tus of pre­vi­ous­ly al­lo­cat­ed gov­ern­ment funds for re­fur­bish­ment and called for im­me­di­ate trans­paren­cy from both the State and man­age­ment.