Demolitions will begin at the All-Saints Way and Kool Acres shantytowns on November 6, Minister of Works and Family Island Affairs Clay Sweeting announced today.
Demolitions will begin at the All-Saints Way and Kool Acres shantytowns on November 6, Minister of Works and Family Island Affairs Clay Sweeting announced today.
The Shantytowns Action Task Force (SATF) is preparing a comprehensive plan to deal with illegal communities across the country, Minister of Works Alfred Sears said yesterday, adding that demolitions will happen soon. “The committee has been putting together a comprehensive plan not just for New Providence and Abaco, which relate to the action, but throughout
Attorneys for a group of shantytown residents who lost their bid before the Supreme Court to have the government’s shantytown eradication policy declared unlawful, have filed an appeal to the Court of Appeal seeking a declaration that the decisions by Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson handed down in February are void, illegal and of no effect. The
Minister of Works Alfred Sears advised Parliament yesterday that the Cabinet has reconvened the “shantytown task force” following the February 10 decision by Supreme Court Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson, who lifted an injunction she had in place for five years after determining that the shantytown eradication policy the Minnis administration had in place was legal. The