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Government is facilitating the training of more than 1 500 people for critical roles in the ongoing construction boom, says Minister of Housing Lands and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland.He said the workers were from the National Housing Corporation (NHC) and Ministry of Transport, Works and Water Resources and are part of the plan to facilitate the building of 10 000 houses promised by Government.He made the disclosure while giving remarks at a handing over ceremony in Farmers, St Thomas on Wednesday.Sutherland said there were claims being made by some business people that there was a shortage o...

Some of the squatters living in Rock Hall, St Philip stand to benefit from the partnership between the National Housing Corporation (NHC) and Guyanese manufacturer DuraVilla. Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland said on Wednesday that some of the hardwood prefab houses arriving from Guyana later this month will provide housing solutions for the Rock Hall residents who will be relocated to Concordia Gardens, Dodds, St Philip and other areas.“Rock Hall relocation would see some 227 persons being relocated from that site. We have started the process thus far. We have mo...

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...

A delegation from Barbados, led by Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance, Dwight Sutherland, attended the XXXI General Assembly of Ministers and High Level Authorities for Housing and Urban Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (MINURVI

Government is starting to deliver on some of the promised housing solutions for Barbadians. More than 150 Barbadians in the lower and middle income earning brackets will be spending Christmas in their own homes in the Ridge Meadows Development in Christ Church. They are among 200 homeowners who have already invested in the private/public sector project executed by BJ Investments, which will ultimately see 565 houses built on the 75-acre …