PRIME?MINISTER?FREUNDEL STUART says Government is linking with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on a project that will deliver a comprehensive evaluation of the risks and vulnerabilities of Barbados to storm surges and tsunamis.
Stuart spoke about this country’s next phase of coastal conservation at Hastings Rocks, Christ Church, at a grand ceremony where the boardwalk on the South Coast was renamed after former Minister of Finance Sir Richard Haynes, a key figure in the Democratic Labour Party’s resounding 1986 general election triumph.
Before an audience that included Sir Richard and Lady Haynes; sons Richard and Kaska; Sir Louis Tull; members of Cabinet, including Minister of the Environment Denis Lowe; and entertainer Adrian Clarke, Stuart said: “Sir Richard Haynes has indeed made a sterling contribution and only the ungracious and the churlish would want to deny it.”
In a foreword on the programme, Sir Richard, who turns 76 in June, said the project was a welcome addition to those that had been completed and was an important response to the needs of the people.
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Pictured, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart (right) congratulating Sir Richard Haynes after the unveiling ceremony in his honour of the south coast boardwalk at Hastings, Christ Church. At right is Minister of Environment Denis Lowe.
