There are still too many people being housed in places like the country’s Workers’ Union College, William Duguid, chief minister in the prime minister’s office and responsible for coordinating infrastructure projects, told reporters.
We expect the units to be completed in a short time, although we face some issues related to public services, the agency said.
The works, divided into three complexes, are located in the main parishes of Barker’s Road, Tichbourne and Haggatt Hall, St. Michael and have been estimated to cost between $180,000 and $190,000 to build and are part of the East-West Project.
“We also work with the Construction Gateway program and we have young people who are being trained to make this new type of technology,” Duguid described.
Authorities are also targeting single-family homes and, in the near future, maisonettes on state-owned land, he added.
For his part, Housing, Land and Maintenance chief Dwight Sutherland shared how many homes were generally being built in the area.
“We have another 13 units being built just on the west side of our site,” he said.
Elsa, the strongest recorded in the eastern Caribbean in July, caused severe damage during its passage to infrastructure in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia and Barbados, causing power outages, downing trees and the collapse of hundreds of homes led.
The Caribbean is suffering from the warming seas, extreme events and hurricanes in addition to the Covid-19 pandemic and the massive arrival of Sargassum.
From 2020 to 2022, official figures indicate losses of between $53,000 and $75,000,000 in the region due to all of these factors.
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