The Ministry of Housing, Lands and Maintenance’s Operation Seek and Secure has been extended to the weekends of September 17 and 18, October 1 and 2, and October 8 and 9.
This project will involve an audit of the housing stock of Barbados with a particular focus on houses that are made of wood, wood and wall construction, and single storey wall bungalows.
Students will be wearing orange T-shirts and wearing ID badges. They will not be entering homes.
The Ministry encourages members of the public to cooperate with the students and all information given is strictly confidential.
The data to be collected includes the age of the home, construction materials, condition of the walls and roof, and the angle of the roof.
Student volunteers from the Barbados Community College and the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology will be trained and deployed to undertake the audit, facilitated by the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, across the 30 constituencies. This will be done under the supervision of personnel from the Barbados Defence Force.