Barbadians looking forward to seeing the Garrison tunnels for Christmas will have to wait until March.
Vice president of the Garrison Consortium Inc., Peter Stevens, yesterday disclosed 100 per cent funding for the opening of the tunnels had finally been secured from the Tourism Development Corporation, and given the work to be done, the consortium was now projecting opening the historic tunnels to the public in March.
Stevens told the Saturday Sun that with the money in hand, the consortium now had the resources to start work to meet the last requirement by the Town and Country Planning Department “which means we can break ground to install the two stairwells”.
He projected an early January groundbreaking and said it would take approximately two months to do the necessary work. In addition, emergency training, which he described as “crucial”, would have to be done before the tunnels were opened.
