Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit vowed to deliver 5,000 climate resilient homes to Dominicans across the island nation. This is part of the government’s plan to make Dominica the first country in the world to be fully climate-resilient, Skerrit said. He added that the people of Dominica will never be distraught or lack a place to live with comfort following any more natural disasters such as hurricanes.
Skerrit said the norm is for people to become refugees or struggle to rebuild their dilapidated houses following natural disasters all over the world, but this will never be the case in Dominica. He said hundreds of housing projects are currently ongoing across the country because the current government cares for the people.
“All over the world, it is a norm, after natural disasters for people to live as refugees or in tent cities and temporary, makeshift accomodations for years,” Skerrit disclosed. “Not so here in the Commonwealth of Dominica.”
He listed that the government has constructed or in the process of constructing thousands of resilient homes across numerous communities in Dominica, and these include –
- Castle Bruce
- Cotton Hill
- Hillsborough Gardens
- San Sauveur
- LaPlaine
- Georgetown
- Portsmouth
- Grand Fond
- Bellevue Chopin
- Pointe Michell
- Dubique, and
- Concord, etc.
According to Skerrit, “We provided hundreds of millions of dollars to start new housing construction programmes to repair homes, re-roof, and pay contractors so that people could help themselves to rebuild and upgrade housing structures.”
Hundreds of Dominicans in the listed communities have expressed deep gratitude to the DLP government for new houses given to them for free alongside all documentation. Hundreds more are on the waiting list to pack into their own homes as soon as construction finishes at the listed communities. Many more have registered and await experiencing the joy of having their own homes for life after hurricanes destroyed their ancestral homes.
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