Booby Alley Project to start by August

Following lengthy delays lasting several years…work on the Booby Alley housing
project is now scheduled to start by August this year.
According to the parliamentary representative for the area, Prime Minister Gaston
Browne, the project has been placed before the Tenders Board for the selection of a
construction firm to carry out the project.
PM Browne said the tenders board’s process is likely to last for two months with a
selection slated to take place by June.
Actual work on the project will likely start within a sixty-day period from the
selection of the contractors.
The People’s Republic of China is financing the project as part of a $100 million
grant that will also finance a similar project in Mongo Town.
The start of the project was initially delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but was
further delayed due to issues where some residents had refused to be relocated to
enable the demolition or removal of the homes in the heavily congested block of
houses. the site for the project. After a stand-off with some residents, they finally
agreed to vacate the premises thus clearing the way for the construction of the
multi-storey condominium-style homes for the residents of Booby Alley.
MP Browne said the housing project was a necessity to ease the congestion, but
also to improve the quality of homes that the residents will move into on
completion.
He promised that residents will have an opportunity to have their views heard on
the homes during consultations planned for later.
Meanwhile, the ABLP Caretaker for the St. John’s Rural West constituency,
Michael Joseph, has announced plans o implement a housing development at
Yeptons and he is asking the prime minister for his assistance to raise the financing
for the project.
Under the project, some ninety homes will be constructed in Phase One with plans
to constructed additional homes in later Phases.