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"The name Ben Lomond had come from local vintner John Burns, recalling the Scottish wine-growing region," writes Ross Eric Gibson. "Thomas Bell became Ben Lomond's first postmaster, whose love for the area’s natural beauty caused him to purchase 300 acres of woodland south of the Ben Lomond Bridge for preservation."
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...
Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland has announced that five four-block units at Alleyne’s Court, Whitepark Road, will be completed by the end of October.Sutherland said the rent-to-own units will address some of the housing challenges in the urban corridor. Ten per cent of the houses would be allocated to persons with disabilities.The minister also indicated that an additional three ‘quads’ are to be built at Eden Lodge and construction has started on 11 metal homes from East-West Solutions (Barbados), at Sargeant’s Village, Christ Church.“The design work has...
Government may be trending ahead of its 2022 housing development goal. While giving an update on Government's housing revolution, Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance, Dwight Sutherland, revealed plans to further reduce the population densit
Cabinet is on course to stamp its approval on the National Housing Corporation’s (NHC) purchase of 350 homes from Guyanese manufacturer DuraVilla for $20 million by next week, officials revealed on Friday.In an update on Government’s housing revolution to provide 10 000 homes over the next five to six years, NHC General Manager Ian Gill and the corporation’s resident planner Raymond Lorde said the programme was in full swing. “That is confirmed. We are preparing the contractual arrangements, but as you know Cabinet must approve that we do the order. The monies for this will come fr...