EXACTLY?ONE?YEAR after Tropical Storm Tomas struck Barbados damaging thousands of properties, at least 200 homes are yet to be repaired.
And many of those properties belong to the country’s most vulnerable: the poor.
That indication came from Judy Thomas, director of the Department of Emergency Management. She was quick to explain in New York that thousands of properties were “affected” by the winds and the rains and most of them were repaired by a mix of Government departments and agencies, including the Urban Development Commission and the Rural, by insurance payouts and homeowners’ own resources.
“I would say there are more than 200, and I speak from memory, but I am sure there are a few hundred of them that we are looking at in our own organization,” Thomas said when asked about the unrepaired homes across the country. “But there are people working with Urban and Rural Development Commissions that are dealing with them separately.” (TB)
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