A travel agency's licence has been suspended after it failed to ensure that a tour it conducted in October 2014 was led by a licensed tourist guide. The guide was giving a tour when a Singapore Tourism Board (STB) enforcement officer checked his credentials and discovered he did not have a licence, The Straits Times quoted STB's director of travel agents and tourist guides Ong Ling Lee as saying. In a media advisory sent yesterday, STB said the travel agency, TG Tours, will be suspended from conducting travel agent activities for two months. The suspension means TG Tours cannot accept new bookings until July 14, but it is required to fulfil its existing obligations to its customers. A warrant of arrest was issued against the unlicensed guide, who has since left Singapore. In the advisory, STB said it adopts a serious view against those who engage in unlicensed tourist guiding activities and travel agents that engage the services of unlicensed guides. A spokesman said: "Active on-ground … [Read more...] about TG Tours suspended for two months over unlicensed guide
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Grace Mugabe accused of assault on domestic worker
HARARE: Grace Mugabe, the wife of former Zimbabwean ruler Robert Mugabe, has been accused of attacking an employee at the family's home with a shoe in 2017, lawyers said on Tuesday (May 14).She also faces an arrest warrant in neighbouring South Africa for her alleged assault with a power cable on a female model in Johannesburg in the same year.Papers filed in Zimbabwe's high court by lawyers for Shupikai Chiroodza allege that Mugabe used her fists and then her shoe in a prolonged attack that left Chiroodza's face pouring blood.Mugabe allegedly attacked Chiroodza after accusing her of "milking" her husband because she had accepted a cash wedding gift from him, the papers say.Chiroodza was a government employee working at the Mugabes' private Blue Roof mansion in Harare when the alleged attack took place in March 2017, eight months before then-president Mugabe was forced from office."I represent Chiroodza, who was part of the domestic staff at Blue Roof in a case of unlawful dismissal," … [Read more...] about Grace Mugabe accused of assault on domestic worker