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The government has completed the process of land acquisition for the construction of an international airport in Dominica, according to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.<\/p>\nThe government has completed the process of land acquisition for the construction of an international airport in Dominica, according to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.<\/p>\n
He said recently during his regular Sunday talk show that plans are in place to house Wesley residents who\u00a0 were displaced due to the proposed construction of the international airport in that area.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of land acquisition, we have completed the process under the law, we are continuing to make payments to property owners as we go along,\u201d the prime minister stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bit tedious because you have many of these properties that are owned by families or are in the hands of an estate where the rightful owners died and they left a will\u2026\u201d he said adding that there are people who have mortgages from financial institutions, \u201cso we have to be engaging these financial institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are some cases he said of people who do not have titles for their land, ” and we have to work on this; so every one case is not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said “as time goes by” the government is making payments those people who have accepted cash only for compensation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going very well, we have given the trigger to start the homes for those affected….we are going through the process of allocating lands for agricultural purposes,\u201d he reported.<\/p>\n
According to the prime minister, the international airport project as a \u201cvery huge\u201d undertaking with many different parts and considerations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a house we are building or a health centre, it is an international airport that has a number of safety issues that you have to be mindful of\u2026,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
He also revealed that the government has acquired all the equipment for the lab to deal with the testing and geotechnical studies.<\/p>\n
\u201c…We have identified [the] location for the construction of the lab and we will start construction of that lab very soon,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are ready to move and it is just a matter of signing off on the agreement with the developer and once that is done I think you will see some real movement taking place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government has completed the process of land acquisition for the construction of an international airport in Dominica, according to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. He said recently during his regular Sunday talk show that plans are in place to house…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":259582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,22,11,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-development","category-environment","category-general","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n