Jun 05 - GSD Calls On Government To Explain “Phantom Workforce” On Housing Refurbishment Projects
The GSD says it has spent the last few months has conducting an outreach program listening to the concerns and aspirations of people in the community.
One of the concerns expressed to the party has been the pace of works at some Government estates. According to the party, Laguna, for example, still has many blocks where works have not even commenced despite a manifesto commitment in 2011 to finish the works in the last term. The Opposition adds that other blocks have had scaffolding for months with a minimum amount of workers on the site. The GSD says it is understandable “people feel very frustrated” about the pace of works.
The GSD says it also highlighted during the last Parliamentary session its concerns in relation to Government housing lifts, parts of which have been piled in the outskirts of Lathbury Barracks “for well over 18 months” adding that the lifts have been “expressed as a priority” by the residents it has met.
GSD spokesperson for Housing, Edwin Reyes MP said:
“It is difficult to understand why there are practically no workers on site to finalise some of these projects. Could it be lack of money? Number 6 Convent Place appears to have been completed on time and there were no shortage of funds for that. Four years on and many tenants do not see light at the end of the tunnel. ”
Photos of scaffolding on Government housing estate and crated lift at Lathbury Barracks provided by the GSD.
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