By Melanius Alphonse
Caribbean News Now associate managing editor
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ROSEAU, Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has reiterated Dominica’s commitment to contribute to the “sustainability and sustenance” of LIAT. This recognition is also significant to the economic impact on Dominica’s housing revolution, citizenship by investment and the tourism industry, together, the most vital components of Dominica’s social and economic viability, following tropical storm Erika in 2015.
“We need to look at things from a holistic standpoint and ensure that everybody needs to play their part in order for LIAT to be sustainable for it to continue to fly,” Skerrit noted. “And this is why Dominica is committed in its humble way, to make a contribution to LIAT’s sustenance and its sustainability because we in Dominica appreciate the importance of LIAT to the economy of Dominica,” he stated. “We do not have a largesse of funds but the little that we have or the little that we do not have, we will certainly make a contribution to LIAT sustainability and sustenance.”
Dominica’s housing revolution is the envy of the Caribbean, part of a more significant feat to construct up to 5,000 homes across Dominica thus the movement of people, goods and services are vital, in the service to hundreds of Dominican workers and others from the region and beyond. In the process boosting economic growth locally and regionally, helping to reduce unemployment contribution to the socio-economics of the region.
The Belleview Chopin housing project is a prime example, financed entirely by Dominica’s citizenship by investment (CBI) program, to provide affordable and climate-resilient homes to families throughout the country.
In September 2016, the government contracted Montreal Management Consultants Est (MMCE) and launched the Bellevue Chopin Housing Programme to benefit Petite Savanne residents displaced by Erika.
The Bellevue Chopin project consists of 340 residential units and a 28-unit commercial complex. The commercial complex will be used as a daycare and early childhood education centre, sports and recreation, shops and boutiques.
Fifty-two families from the Petite Savanne community are now proud owners of new homes in the Bellevue Chopin region. An additional 190 homes are expected to be…
