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One hundred and thirty farmers will be working on the multi-million dollar Lears Land Use Project. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Minister of Agriculture Indar Weir said that the 77-acre project now has the required infrastructure in place to be functional, noting that previously farmers had issues accessing their land after was heavy rainfall. “We had to do a lot of infrastructural work for the project,” Weir began. “It involved …

The St Peter branch of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) will be shining the spotlight on how the incoming Pendry Hotel and Resort will impact residents of Six Men’s and people living in the northern parishes. A meeting, which will be held at Braddey’s Bar in the community at 5 p.m., will discuss the project which will see Pendry Residences Barbados built on the land at Six Men’s and Retreat. …

Minister of Housing Dwight Sutherland is lauding the achievements of the National Housing Corporation as it marks its 50th year of operations. On Sunday, during a church service held at St Luke’s Anglican Church in St George, Sutherland said that the state-owned-enterprise had a number of remarkable successes over the years as it sought to empower Barbadians. “The National Housing Corporation was

The National Housing Corporation (NHC) is undergoing a major restructuring, says Minister of Housing Dwight Sutherland. While giving remarks at a special church service on Sunday to mark the corporation’s 50th anniversary at St Luke’s Anglican Church in St George, Sutherland said that the time had come for the NHC, like other state-owned enterprises, to restructure due to hard financial times. “The

Having constructed 900 houses one year after launching the governments 10,000 homes programme, Housing Minister Dwight Sutherland said a target of 2,000 has been set for 2023/24. “We intend to build 2,000 houses this financial year,” he said, noting that construction has already begun at Lancaster, Colleton and Poole in St John, while several other sites have been identified for housing

Scores of potential homeowners are gathered on the grounds of Sagicor, Wildey St Michael for the Sagicor Mortgage Fair. Over 20 exhibitors which include financial institutions, retail furnishing companies, law firms, and government agencies such as the National Housing Corporation are present to share information with the hopefuls. During the opening of the fair, Minister of Housing and Lands Dwight Sutherland thanked Sagicor for bringing the initiative as he encouraged …

There have been reasonable questions raised about how active and functional the island’s democracy could be in the absence of an official opposition conducting its work in the House of Assembly. Barbados faced such a scenario in 2018 when Barbadians, either completely frustrated with the last administration or extremely confident in what the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) was offering as an

By Jenique Belgrave Government backbencher Trevor Prescod is accusing some private contractors engaged in the government’s housing programme of building “pens” for low-income earners in this country. Speaking in the Lower House earlier today on the government’s plan to construct 10 000 houses across the island, the MP for St. Michael East claimed that some of the houses are too small for

CITY RESIDENTS LOOK FORWARD TO RELOCATION By Shamar Blunt Some residents of Greenfield in The City are optimistic but cautious about government’s plans to move a number of them from the congested urban area into new housing units at Whitepark Road. During last week’s debate in the Lower House on the Appropriation Bill 2023, Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance, Dwight Sutherland revealed

After ten years in elective politics, helping his community and people with disabilities is still paramount for St. James North Member of Parliament Edmund Hinkson. As he celebrated this milestone during a thanksgiving service at the Garden Church of God last Sunday, the former Home Affairs Minister thanked constituency members, friends and parliamentary colleagues for their continued support. Hinkson, who has often