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National free bus transport programme for students |
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 It was a new school year in many ways yesterday morning (Sept 1st 2008). It was not just the first day for students but the first day for two new programmes - the national free bus transport programme for students and the deportment Rules and Guidelines established for secondary school students. According to officials from both the Ministry of Education and the Transport Board, it was a largely successful day on both fronts. Government spared no effort in ensuring that a 250-strong fleet of buses was ready to hit the road with both the Minister of Education Ronald Jones and Minister of Transport John Boyce themselves boarding a bus to get a first-hand view of how the start of the day would unfold. Here, Minister of Transport John Boyce (in suit) observing schoolchildren in Tweedside Road, St Michael, getting on an Alleyne School-bound bus yesterday morning. (Picture by Rawle Culbard.)
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NHC Tenants to become owners |
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 2 095 people who have lived in their National Housing Corporation (NHC) units for 20 years or more, will become proud legal owners of their homes.
An emotional Mary Brown, of Bagatelle Gardens, St James, was the first to get her letter of intent yesterday afternoon.
"I live here for longer than I can remember and I feel so glad for this," she told Minister of Housing and Lands Michael Lashley, who visited five other Government housing estates to deliver letters to elated recipients.
Accompanied by members of his ministry and the NHC, Lashley stopped in Haynesville, St James; Deacons, The Ivy and Bonnets in St Michael; and Silver Hill in Christ Church.
"Today is a very historical day in housing in Barbados," the minister said. "I am pleased to announce that we have delivered letters of intent and have acknowledged our manifesto commitment, which basically set out that those tenants living in NHC units for 20 years or more we would transfer the units to them except for legal fees."
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