The Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Limited will today continue with the payment of the severance package of former staff who were laid off some three years ago. Some eight hundred and ten workers of the mining firm lost their jobs when the company folded up in 2007. It was subsequently put on divestiture. After years of agitation, disbursements of the workers’ entitlements began last week and though they were assured they were going to be paid before Christmas, only eighty received their monies. A former Production Manager with the company, Deladi Kabi however told Joy Business he has been given the assurance by the Divestiture Implementation Committee that the rest of the workers will be paid before the New Year. He said the DIC and the disbursing bank are currently in Akwatia to continue with the exercise. Mr Kabi said the former workers were justified in their complaints but maintained, “we have now streamlined everything – the money is here, the forms are now here and we have synchronised everything - such that by Friday [31 December] everybody should be paid.” Source: Joy News/Ghana