Hundreds of Barbadians who need temporary housing after being displaced by Hurricane Elsa will this week go into special accommodation secured by Government.
Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams said yesterday that the authorities would leave no stone unturned in their assessment of all the damage done by the Category 1 hurricane, and this would continue all week.
He said officials already had a good idea of who the vulnerable were, and they should be in new accommodation from today.
“We sustained a fair amount of damage to our housing stock and to our infrastructure as well,” Abrahams said during a press conference at the National Emergency Operations. (BA)
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