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The race is on as the Ministry of Housing has until the end of October to rebuild almost 200 houses destroyed by last month’s freak storm and Hurricane Elsa which affected Barbados on July 2.
Minister of Housing Dr William Duguid said this has prompted them to enact new house building methods in order to make the deadline.
“The Prime Minister has set a date for me, by October, so we recognise it’s a tight framework and this is why we have to be all out every day trying to get the assessments and the rebuilds done.
“We are doing a lot of the cuts of the wood and steel for ourselves and then building some of these houses in place by assembling them in the various locations. We cut, bundle, load and transport and we have found this cuts the work in half,” he said, adding they had six completed house uprights ready for transport. (CA)
Duguid tours work underway to fix storm-damaged houses
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Major house rebuilding programme
Article by July 3, 2021
A major house rebuilding programme will get underway soon in response to homes damaged during the passage of Hurricane Elsa.
This announcement came from Minister of Housing Dr William Duguid during Saturday’s live Government update on the damage from the storm.
Nothing that 62 homes were completely destroyed and 743 damaged roofs were reported as of Saturday, Duguid said Government had already agreed to facilitate the rebuilding of several properties within the next two days.
“Within 48 hours, we are going to try to get as many of the houses … started; we are dividing that between the Urban Development Commission (UDC), the Rural Development Commission (RDC) and the National Housing Corporation (NHC). There are certain geographic locations for UDC and RDC, and we’ll be following those, [and] with respect to the National Housing Corporation, we’ll be doing the houses that are wall and wood,