A woman was almost brought to tears in Tobago on Friday, when she was afforded a home by the Tobago House of Assembly.
Her house in Speyside Tobago had fallen off a precipice after works conducted by a neighbour damaged her property.
Over one million in Home Improvement Programme cheques and Housing Lot were distributed on Friday by the Division of Settlements Public Utilities and Rural Development.
00:00I've been living in Spaceside for about 20-something years and there come my neighbor dig, you know, bring him back home and excavator and all like that and they broke down the whole part of the house and, you know, me and my little son, he was about 14, 14, 15, you know, and we had a little horrible time but we stayed and, you know, we'd be up, you know, we used to pray, I'm a praying soul, you know, I'm trusting God, not this morning, every 64 Christmas Day come in.
00:30Yeah, so thank God for this, for Christmas again, I'll be comfortable.
00:35Joanne Blake spoke to TV6 News at the Shaw Park Complex during the Division of Settlements Home Improvement Program Check and Housing Lot Distribution Ceremony.
00:46God has been so great and people will recognize how great God is, you know, until you pray and seek him. That's what it's been doing in the night, day and night.
00:57Some 67 Home Improvement Program Checks were distributed to successful applicants along with leases for 49 housing lots.
01:08There are 43 lots in Bleming Housing Development, 3 in the Milford Court Housing Development and 3 lots in the Buku Housing Development.
01:17Settlements Secretary Ian Pallard said policies would be implemented to treat with persons who do not use the grants for its intended purpose.
01:28If you know your floor you need to change, your windows, whatever you apply for the grant for, please use it for that purpose.
01:35Because money is not finite.
01:36The policy that would be coming shortly in the division is that we come and we improve people's persons' home and you're out of the system.
01:47In that we have persons coming every five years and getting a grant.
01:52In that way some persons just want to change their windows and as you can see from some of the pictures,
01:57the deplorable conditions that some persons live in and have not been able to access the grants program.
02:02Townhouses are to be built in Rysland and additional units in Chauvin-Tobago.
02:09While Secretary Pallard said over 10,000 applicants are in the division's database.
02:14It's only in 2024 we learned that the IDB gave the central government a grant to the tune of 20 million U.S. dollars
02:25to do the infrastructure work at Rysland.
02:33The former government withheld it from the Tobago House of Assembly.
02:39Hence, at this time, those recipients, once they qualified, could have been in their homes today.
02:45So we are now working to try to get that 20 million U.S., which is the sum of TT-124 million dollars
02:55to undertake the infrastructure work at Rysland.
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