HDC to build 2,000-plus units in 2021
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CONGRATS: Kadisha Munroe, left, receives the keys to her new HDC home in Riverside North, Corinth on Monday from Housing Minister Pennelope Beckles and HDC chairman Noel Garcia. - Photo by Lincoln Holder
THE Housing Development Corporation (HDC) will aim to build more than 2,000 housing units this year through the government’s Accelerated Housing Programme.
Housing Minister Pennelope Beckles revealed this at a key distribution ceremony at Corinth Hills on Monday.
She said this goal was in addition to the ministry’s plan to complete unfinished housing projects.
She said she hopes by early 2022, the Edinburgh Towers in Chaguanas can be completed. That project began in 2006 but was stalled in 2011.
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Minister of Housing and Urban development Pennelope Beckles present keys to Joanna and Kimbia Brewster to their HDC Riverside North Corinth home, while San Fernando East MP, Brian Manning and HDC chairman, Noel Garcia looked on. The presentations took place at Riverside North Corinth. - Photo by Lincoln Holder
FIFTY families now have new homes at Riverside South, Corinth Hills thanks to the Housing Development Corporation (HDC).
Construction for these housing units began in December 2017 and its total expected yield is 121.
It is set to consist, entirely, of 82 townhouses, 27 family units, 12 single-family units across 24.9 acres.
The excited new homeowners received the keys to their buildings on Monday morning at a ceremony held at the compound.
PITTSFIELD â While school leaders look toward hiring and budgeting, health officials will take up two issues that have been generating community concern.
Last week, the School Committee finalized its interview schedule for four superintendent hopefuls, putting current Interim Superintendent Joe Curtis in the spotlight first. Curtisâ interview will kick off the 5 p.m. meeting on Monday, followed by Interim Bozrah, Conn., Superintendent Portia Bonner. Wayland Public Schools Superintendent Arthur Unobskeyâs interview will start Tuesday s meeting at the same time, with the final interview of Marisa Mendonsa, principal of Mohawk Trail Regional High School, capping the evening s events.
Catch the interviews live online and on PCTV s Education Television, channel 1302, before the committee makes its final hiring decision Wednesday. The vote will come after a budget hearing on the district administrationâs proposed $67.3 million spending plan for next fiscal year, whic
Oropune Gardens still seeks peace, gang activity continues
Apartment buildings in the area of Oropune Gardens known as China Town. - Photo by Roger Jacob
OROPUNE GARDENS is still struggling to find peace. There are areas in the east Trinidad residential community that continue to grapple with crime, although some parts are reporting a turnaround.
In 2019, Sunday Newsday reported on the crime surge that had been highlighted by former journalist Colleen Holder.
Since then, the community came together and working with the Police Youth Club crime went down. Except in one spot – a place that s now known as China Town. It s on the north western end of the community, nearest to the Churchill Roosevelt Highway.
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