The dream of home ownership is fast becoming a nightmare for three women who live in two separate apartment blocks at Barker Road, Haggatt Hall, St Michael.
The occupants of the light-gauge steel homes built for the Government by Chinese contractors under the East-West Project are complaining of falling ceilings, creaking floors, broken fixtures and a mosquito infestation caused by water settling near the foundation.
Twelve homes across three buildings were built at Haggatt Hall under the East-West Project. Other units were completed or are under construction at Bullens, St James; Sargeant’s Village, Christ Church and River Crescent, St Philip.
An upset Judine Gittens, who was relocated to Haggatt Hall from St Philip via Christ Church after Hurricane Beryl destroyed her home, reached out to the
DAILY NATION yesterday after a piece of the ceiling fell.
“The ceiling start caving in on Friday,” she said. “It had a big gape upstairs on Friday afternoon and the officer said she would pay me a visit tomorrow [today]. Then the ceiling start to drop in further this [yesterday] morning.”
She quickly called her mother to get help moving her possessions out of the bedroom, pointing to the piece that she said hit her in the head.
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you get what you pay for. would have been better off converting shipping containers into homes.