The National Housing Corporation Unit at Country Park Towers, St Michael, which became the scene of a fiery family dispute last Wednesday was supposed to be a temporary location for the Albert family.
Michael Albert, who died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday after suffering fourth degree burns to 90 per cent of his body, his eight siblings, and his father Prince Albert Lynch, were relocated to two separate units at Country Towers ten years ago by the Ministry of Transport and Works (MTW), which dismantled their home at Dash Valley, St George, to make way for a road expansion project.
In 2010, following the death of his father, Michael complained to THE NATION about the length of time it was taking for Government to honour its promise to rebuild a six-bedroom family home for them at Haggatt Hall, St Michael.
Yesterday Michael’s grieving sister Cecilia said that of all the siblings he was the one who was determined to see that the house was built.
Read the full story in today’s WEEKEND NATION.
