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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
Member of Parliament for St Thomas Cynthia Forde has complained that more than a year after Hurricane Elsa and a freak storm damaged about 80 houses in her constituency, many residents were still waiting for repairs to either start or finish.And on Tuesday in the House of Assembly, she pleaded with the relevant authorities to get on the case.Forde said she wanted to see constituents benefitting from the same kind of repairs being carried out in other parts of the country.“And I am not badgering anybody. I am just saying that I want the houses finished. I have photographs of grass growing alm...
By the end of 2022, Government should have completed repairs on approximately 73 per cent of the homes damaged by Hurricane Elsa last year. Speaking in the House of Assembly on Tuesday, Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland said 1 796 homes were damaged by the weather system on July 2. However questions are being raised about the assistance promised by Government and the long delays in getting …
Fifteen more squatters in Rock Hall, St Philip will be moving into their new homes by November while work continues on completing houses for the scores of others that still remain.Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland made this disclosure to Barbados TODAY on Monday while giving an update on the relocation project.He said his ministry was making headway but the Hurricane Elsa relief effort continued to put a strain on the project.“Thus far, we have moved seven people to Parish Land extension in St Philip where some 22 houses were constructed to relocate residents from ...
Ottaline Sealy who gave birth to 17 children has reached the golden age of 100.Eight of her offspring gathered at her South District, St George home on Wednesday, her birthday, to celebrate the momentous occasion and to thank her for the many sacrifices she made to ensure that all of her children were always well groomed and had access to the necessities of life.Sealy’s second child, Sylvia Flavius, 80, told Barbados TODAY that her mother was a strict lady who worked hard on numerous plantations and then spent approximately 18 years at the National Conservation Commission (NCC) to ensure tha...