Tenders Out for Infrastructural Works at Relocation Site

Contact: John Emmanuel

Monday, February 14, 2000 - The preparation of tender documents for infrastructural works required at Carellie the proposed relocation site for families displaced by land slippage in parts of Marchand has come to its end. Director of Planning Alison King Joseph says her department is hoping to issue the invitations to tender this week, with a view to receiving quotations in the next four to six weeks.

Contractors, she says, will tender on elements like roads, drainage works, water and electrical services. According to Mrs. Joseph, "In parallel with that, we will be conducting discussions with the individuals who will be taking up parcels of land within the relocation site to help isolate their individual needs. Then, its all systems go."

Beginning in September of 1999 Government, through the Ministry of Planning, began a massive relocation drive involving over fifty families affected by land slippage in Black Mallet and Maynard Hill. Part funding for the relocation effort has come via a 500,000 US dollar loan from the Caribbean Development Bank.

Mrs. Joseph says it is difficult to place a time frame on the completion of the relocation exercise to date since government has not been able to ascertain the exact amount of assistance it will provide. Support, she says, may vary from family to family.

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