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84 more homes to be completed in Barbuda under EU funded project Spread the love Eighty-four more homes will be repaired or rebuilt in Barbuda under the European Union (EU) funded Housing Support to Barbuda Project. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is implementing the project, said the names of the 84 selected beneficiaries will be published by the Beneficiary Selection Committee (BSC) within the next month. The UNDP said in a statement that the contract to repair and rebuild the houses was awarded to Harrigan Building Construction. The homes are due to be complete by t...

NODS responds to claims of removing names from a beneficiaries list for housing in Barbuda Spread the love The National Office of Disaster Services (NODS) is clearing the air regarding recent comments made about the list of persons benefiting from ongoing recovery projects in Barbuda following Hurricane Irma in 2017. NODS has been accused of removing names from a beneficiaries list and Director Philmore Mullin believes this accusation is deliberate to remove responsibility from the guilty parties.  Mullin says there are two beneficiary select committees – one that deals with the European U...

Emmanuel Charles Cadet March 8, 2021 Early  Years Charles Cadet was born in Castries, Saint Lucia on December 16, 1924. His father, Gerald Cadet, was an offspring of one of Saint Lucia’s early advocates of political advancement, who served on the Castries Town Board (now the Castries City Council) for several decades in the early part of the twentieth century. Emmanuel D. Cadet was also a member of the Castries Vestry of the Roman Catholic Church. The Cadet Pavilion at Victoria Park (now Mindoo Philip Park) was named after him. Charles attended the foremost Roman Catholic School on the isl...

Gov’t plans to vaccinate 80,000 in 35 days Spread the love HURST REPORTS ON CABINET OF Thursday February 25 2021 The Cabinet met for more than seven continuous hours, six members using virtual means and seven meeting face-to-face. The Cabinet, as is customary, invited experts and officials to its weekly meeting in order to assist in enhancing decision-making. 1. The Cabinet invited seven experts from the Ministry of Health including the Chief Medical Officer, the Principal Nursing Officer, the Chief Health Inspector, the Ministry’s Technology Officer, and three members of the Technical Co...

PLH accused of ‘greenwashing amid environmental destruction’ Spread the love “They don’t even know what they have destroyed and that is the awful thing about it,” remarked marine biologist John Mussington, as he recalled the apparent destruction of sand dunes and wildlife habitats at Palmetto Point, Barbuda. Mussington is one of a number of Barbudans opposed to the environmental degradation that they say the Peace, Love and Happiness (PLH) development is likely to cause by constructing a golf course spanning hundreds of acres on protected land within the Codrington Lagoon National P...