NATIONAL OFFICE OF DISASTER SERVICES

Thursday 14th September 2017 - The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) will begin clean-up of the Barrymore hotel today to make way for the accommodation of a number of Barbudans who were displaced following the passage of Hurricane Irma.

According to Director of NODS Philmore Mullin, engineers from the Public Works Department carried out an assessment of the building earlier this week and found a host of health and safety violations as a direct result of a number of  Barbudans who have been living on the premises illegally for years.

Mullin made it quite clear that the responsibility of NODS at this time is to take care of those persons who were affected by the hurricane and not those Barbudans who have been living and working in Antigua.