THA to provide 50 homes for airport-displaced residents

Res­i­dents still strug­gling to re­build their lives af­ter be­ing dis­placed by the new To­ba­go air­port will be get­ting ad­di­tion­al help. Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine made the an­nounce­ment on Mon­day as he not­ed many af­fect­ed res­i­dents were not giv­en suf­fi­cient com­pen­sa­tion.

Au­gus­tine said 50 hous­ing units will be pro­vid­ed by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) to al­le­vi­ate their chal­lenges. He said these units are catered to "in­di­vid­u­als who could not be re­lo­cat­ed, who weren't paid enough to re­build their homes."

How­ev­er, he said the de­signs for the units are still be­ing com­plet­ed. He said, once fin­ished, he will hold a meet­ing with stake­hold­ers.