By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff
Plans are afoot to offer plumbing and utilities to citizens living in temporary houses within the territory. Four domes costing $9,000 were purchased for persons residing in emergency shelters but did not own land. Three have been dispensed on Jost Van Dyke and one in West End, Tortola. Impacted individuals who owned land have been supplied with makeshift wood homes. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Development Petrona Davies said neither the domes nor wood centers had been ready with washrooms, and occupants were utilizing nearby facilities within the period in between.
She said sanitary centers and utilities are to be included within the scope of works, which are to be shrunk through the Recovery and Development Agency in what she stated changed into the now not-too-remote destiny.
We had been running with these families for some time,” she defined.
Families and single occupants, nevertheless, in brief housing
Davies said she did not know the variety of humans dwelling in temporary accommodation. However, she indicated that it’s far a combination of households and single occupants.
In the intervening time, the everlasting secretary stated that other families in need of Anegada and Virgin Gorda might be properly assisted with transient homes.
However, she is encouraging residents in temporary housing to search for permanent shelters in every other principal weather event. We don’t inspire everyone to journey out a hurricane in temporary housing whether or not it is a dome or a timber residence,” she said. During an interview with BVI News on Wednesday, Davies explained that residents on Jost Van Dyke now have a fully-repaired emergency refuge.
She stated the Church of God of Prophecy on the sister island obtained a grant of $ sixty-three four hundred to adopt the said maintenance. The church is one of the emergency shelters on that island that wanted care following the 2017 hurricanes.
