Debts owed to Government by the Hamiltonian Hotel and Island Club Ltd. will keep it from being struck of Government?s registrar of companies.

The company ? which is said to owe more than $600,000 in late Government fees ? appeared last week on the 2004 list of companies that could be struck off Government?s list.

But Registrar General Stephen Lowe said yesterday that the Tax Commissioner and Accountant General were aware that the firm was on the list, and that it would not be removed before its debts were cleared.

Government last November made public the names of companies who were alleged to be dodging or late with their payroll and pension contributions.

The list included the Hamiltonian Hotel and Island Club with outstanding debts to Government of $202,577 and $405,731. This week Auditor General Larry Dennis confirmed that the Hamiltonian Hotel and Island Club Ltd. still owed Government the debt.

A call to the hotel to ask if the company was shutting down, and to query why the debt had not been paid, was greeted with a ?no comment? by the Hamiltonian?s acting manager, who put down the phone as she was asked for her name.