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Hope has its first homeowners - Barbados Today

The Home Ownership Providing Energy (HOPE) housing project has its first prospective homeowners. The first two persons to qualify and select their housing spots did so Saturday morning at HOPE’s first development at Vespera Gardens, Lancaster, St James. Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance, Dwight Sutherland, was at the event to greet Shane Haynes, a […]

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