The government of St Vincent on Tuesday signed an agreement for the procurement of 300 pre-fab houses from Steel Frame Engineered Solutions Limited of Trinidad and Tobago.
Govt. officials did not give a date for the arrival, only stating that the houses are scheduled to arrive soon.
The houses can be assembled within days and form part of the government’s plans to rebuild homes for those affected by the passage of Hurricane Beryl.
Last week, Minister Camilo Gonsalves stated,
“Those houses, when they start arriving, they are coming in batches of fifty (50) … And we have signed a contract for three hundred of those houses, coming in six (6) batches of fifty each”.
An advance team from the company in Trinidad, contracted to deliver the houses, is scheduled to arrive here today, April 25, to conduct assessment and training with builders and contractors.
The government has committed to building 1 thousand houses in 2025 for families affected by Beryl and the eruption of La Soufrière.
