NO PLAN TO FIX WHITEHALL, PM’S RESIDENCE

One year af­ter the Gov­ern­ment de­clared both White­hall and the Prime Min­is­ter’s of­fi­cial res­i­dence in St Ann’s to be in poor con­di­tion to ac­com­mo­date Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in the con­duct of her na­tion­al du­ties, plans are now ad­vanc­ing to re­lo­cate key func­tions of the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) from White­hall.

The OPM’s al­lo­ca­tion in the 2026/2027 Bud­get in­cludes $500,000 for a new project ti­tled the White­hall Com­pan­ion Build­ing.

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Speak­ing on the al­lo­ca­tion yes­ter­day, Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath said White­hall re­mains ill-suit­ed to the needs of a mod­ern gov­ern­ment and that of­fi­cials are ex­plor­ing al­ter­na­tive ac­com­mo­da­tion for sev­er­al OPM de­part­ments.