THERE ARE 120 empty houses in Parish Land, St Philip, waiting for their owners to move in.
But don’t blame the Ministry of Housing or the National Housing Corporation (NHC).
The blame, said Minister of Housing and Lands, Denis Kellman, lies squarely with the Ministry of the Environment.
“We have been getting a lot of bad mouthing (for the delay) but it has nothing to do with us,” he said.
He was speaking to the Daily Nation yesterday after a team visited the St Philip housing project on Saturday to discover that Mother Nature was slowly taking over the majority of the weather-beaten, once brightly-hued houses.
Without mincing his words, the outspoken minister blasted “certain departments” which he said “need to understand” the urgency of certain matters.
“But as usual the Minister of Housing gets blamed for everything,” Kellman said.
