Barbados Today
July 12, 2021
The widespread damage caused by two relatively minor storms within the space of a month exposes significant flaws across the country’s infrastructural landscape.
And according to the President of the Barbados Association of Professional Engineers (BAPE), the impact of such systems will only get worse until the Government makes good on its promise to implement minimum building standards.
As Tropical Storm Elsa took aim at Barbados, Lieutenant Colonel Trevor Browne lamented that in many instances, the country’s infrastructure has remained unchanged since the 1955 rebuild that followed Hurricane Janet.
“There are a number of reasons for that, and one of those reasons is that we have been lucky for decades, so what we have is an old untested system,” the BAPE president told