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No title deeds halt Pool project

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Developers of the Home Ownership Providing Energy (HOPE) programme at Pool, St John, may have put the cart before the horse.

Construction started on low-income houses on lands which formerly fell under CLICO Farms, but the title deeds have not been transferred, leading to a halt in the project.

This was revealed in a statement yesterday from chairman of HOPE Inc. Colin Scaife.

“It is, however, a fact that the formal passage of legal title of the Pool lands to the Government of Barbados – a process arising out of the CLICO collapse – is still unexpectedly incomplete years after the transfer was initiated,” he stated.

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