Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) continues to prioritise constructing houses for susceptible Jamaicans, significantly these with disabilities.
Dr. Holness was addressing the handover ceremony for a brand new one-bedroom unit to visually impaired Jephtah McIntosh, in City Head, Westmoreland, on January 24.
The unit was constructed at a price of $5.6 million.
“One of many issues that I’m significantly happy with with this programme, is that it has assisted many Jamaicans who’re susceptible. We have now assisted individuals who’re wheelchair-bound and individuals who produce other bodily disabilities,” he mentioned.
“We have now assisted individuals with visible impairments earlier than and it has meant a world of a distinction of their lives. and I’m completely satisfied to have the ability to hand this home over to you right now,” he advised Mr. McIntosh.
The Prime Minister inspired the brand new home-owner to make sure that the home is maintained and to proceed to be an upstanding citizen in his group.
In his response, Mr. McIntosh thanked Dr. Holness, Member of Parliament, Morland Wilson and Parish Organiser for the Nationwide Council for Senior Residents in Westmorland, Paula Murray, who performed an element in making certain he bought a brand new house.
“I’m so completely satisfied, I’m so joyful, I’m so glad. As a result of if it wasn’t for you and your imaginative and prescient and the Administration that you simply lead, this wouldn’t be potential. Mr. Prime Minister, God bless you, sir,” he mentioned.
“I by no means dreamed that I might be sitting beside the Prime Minister in my nation. I can’t even discover phrases to explain my emotions. To know that I’m a recipient of a pleasant, constructed, well-decent house to name my very own for the remainder of my life. It’s superb,” Mr. McIntosh mentioned.
The NSHP was developed to enhance the housing situation of the nation’s poor and deprived inhabitants by offering high quality, inexpensive and sustainable housing.
