Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance, Dwight Sutherland. (FP) The Special Audit Report of the project for the Acquisition and Assembly of Steel Housin .
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 from the housing credit fund,” Gill told reporters at a special mortgage fair hosted by the NHC for the island’s security forces, at the Police Sports Club, Weymouth, St Michael.
The controversial Chinese metal houses are going up. On Tuesday, some National Housing Corporation workmen were spotted at Scotts Gap, near Brittons Hill, St Michael securing the metal frames of one of the prefabricated structures of East West Building Solutions to the foundation. It was one of 150 imported from China last year after many householders were displaced due to Hurricane Elsa in July. Many have questioned whether the houses …
Some of the householders displaced by Hurricane Elsa in July are one step closer to receiving new Chinese-made prefabricated houses from Government. Minister of Housing and Lands Dr William Duguid gave that update on Tuesday while speaking at Six Roads Industrial Park in St Philip after the parts for the East West Building Solutions houses arrived in containers. Duguid recalled that Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley set Christmas as the …
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