Greater than $330 million has been paid out to residents in Hanover by the Authorities’s Restoration of Proprietor or Occupant Household Shelters (ROOFS) initiative, geared toward supporting restoration efforts following Hurricane Melissa.
Pearnel Charles Jr., Minister of Labour and Social Safety, disclosed the determine throughout a handover ceremony in Lucea on Wednesday. He later confirmed the replace in an interview with Nationwide Information.
The ROOFS programme varieties a part of the nationwide response to Hurricane Melissa, offering direct monetary help to owners whose properties had been broken. Eligible beneficiaries could obtain grants starting from $75,000 to $500,000, relying on the severity of destruction recognized throughout assessments.
Islandwide, greater than 96,000 property evaluations have been carried out thus far. In Hanover alone, over 6,000 assessments have been accomplished. Of these, roughly 3,600 had been categorized as main or extreme injury instances.
Minister Charles Jr. said that the Authorities continues to prioritise people who had been most affected, with explicit consideration to susceptible residents in want of pressing help.
He additionally reminded the general public that help beneath the ROOFS initiative is restricted to 1 grant per resident. Nonetheless, he famous that extra help for rebuilding is out there by different government-led hurricane restoration programmes that present reconstruction help.
The ministry maintains that the distribution course of stays centered on transparency and making certain reduction reaches qualifying households throughout the parish.
