Jobs in danger

have to start all over again.

It’s been a bitter pill for Baijnauth and his family.

The same thing hit them last July when Tropical Airways collapsed and they had to pay foreign currency for tickets on another airline to get back home.

“We tried to reclaim our money from Tropical in New York, but we couldn’t find (owner-director) Larry Singh,” he recalled bitterly.

Agonising for Baijnauth and others like him is the inability of the local SunCoast agents — Sunjet Travel Agency - to provide reasonable explanations of what happened and avenues out of the quandary.

Scores of harried SunCoast return ticketholders daily throng Sunjet offices on Croal Street seeking re-confirmation of flights back to the United States but many complain “we aren’t even allowed into the building.”

Another couple said they should have returned to New York to their jobs on January 7. They too are stranded and their jobs are in danger.

“I am upset. My job is at stake,” one young man declared adding, “and now I have to join a queue to try to find out what is happening and if I could go back on the airline I came with.’

A 50-year-old male employee with a ladies handbags-manufacturing company said he is worried “stiff” about losing the job as he has held in the shipping department for the past eight years.

“They can’t tell me anything