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More than 200 small contractors and companies have been registered to assemble the 1 000 DuraVilla prefabricated houses which are scheduled to start arriving from Guyana by early next month.General Manager of the state-run National Housing Corporation (NHC) Ian Cupid Gill, who made the disclosure in an interview with Barbados TODAY, said a significant number of the mostly three-bedroom homes have already been allocated.“The process will start with 350 houses and the first set will land toward the end of January or early February. The remainder should be here between 90 to 150 days,” he sai...

An alleged escapee who was on the police wanted list from October, last year, will be spending the next 28 days at Dodds Prison. Not only did Oranile Holder face a charge of escaping custody but eight other offences were read to him when he appeared in the District “A” Traffic Court last Thursday. Holder, 26, of Cumberbatch Road, Fairfield Cross Road, St Michael, was not required to plead to …

Declaring that he was the peace maker was not enough to prevent illegal Jamaican Ryon Antonio Williams from being remanded to Dodds Prison yesterday. His cousin Romario Chavez Coburn, who was also in the country illegally was, however, reprimanded and discharged and ordered to pay compensation. Williams, a 30-year-old labourer who was living in Passage Road, St Michael, was in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court where he was accused of and …

A 20-year-old farmer appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on crutches on Wednesday, accused of murdering another man earlier this month.Absalom Abejah Francis-Hunte, of Upper Collymore Rock, St Michael, is charged with the December 3 shooting death of Jabar Yarde. He is also accused of using a firearm on that same date without a valid licence to do so.

A private-public partnership is needed to fulfill Government’s ambitious goal of building 10 000 houses over the next five years.Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland said this was why the Mia Mottley-led administration has been creating an enabling environment for the private sector to build more than half those houses.Speaking to the media following Wednesday’s tour of Ridge Meadows in Christ Church where B.J Investments Limited has been providing homeownership opportunities for 565 Barbados families, Sutherland stressed that Government was on a mission with its ho...