Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Dr Hubert Minnis presents on the government’s plan for a housing subdivision in the western district of New Providence on Monday, April 12, 2021. (BIS PHOTO/ULRIC WOODSIDE)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Irate homeowners in a Fort Charlotte subdivision have called on Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis to fulfill his pledge of a $40,000 rebate on the government homes they purchased and for the government to address structural issues with those residences.
Veron Pratt, president of the Ardastra Gardens Estates #3 homeowners association told
Eyewitness News that the Prime Minister had yet to deliver on the rebate he referenced during debate on the proposed 83-acre Prospect Ridge Subdivision.
Minister of the Environment and Housing Romauld Ferreira. (FILE PHOTO)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Environment and Housing Minister Romauld Ferreira said yesterday that the government’s decision to follow through with its contractual obligations to allow Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) to explore for oil is “water under the bridge now”.
Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Ferreira noted that Bahamians must and will decide the direction to be taken on the controversial oil issue.
Hopes of finding commercial quantities of oil in The Bahamas were dashed earlier this week with BPC announcing that it had abandoned its exploratory drilling after its well came up largely dry. The company’s exploratory well Perseverance #1 has now been sealed.