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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
The outdated $600 figure that is currently being used as this country's poverty indicator is to be changed, according to Minister of Planning, Housing and the Environment Emily Gaynor Dick-Forde. Speaking in an interview at the launch of the National Socio-Economic Database project at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Wrightson Road, Port of Spain, yesterday the Minister said: "Right now...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... Cleaver Heights Development Project in Arima, took the Prime Minister and his Housing Minister, Dr Emily Gaynor Dick-Forde, to task over the alleged "missing" $10 million. He said both of them knew that there was "no missing money, no overpayment". Elias presented his own bundle of documents to show that NH's "payments and billings were based on the correct contract sum" of...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Former housing minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday that public servants in the Housing Development Corporation had indicated to Housing Minister Dr Emily Gaynor Dick-Forde on Tuesday, that there was no "missing" $10 million and that the discrepancy between the $133 million and $143 million price quoted in the letter of intent for the Cleaver Heights Project was a "mathematical...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
... was awarded. Sources told the Express that in January, Planning, Housing and Environment Minister Emily Gaynor Dick-Forde requested a report on the project from the HDC. Sources said it was with a view to establishing whether NH received the contract without tender or whether it got the contract above market rates. The voluminous report was presented, which, according to...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
... agencies in the Ministry and indeed the Government," Minister of Planning, Housing and Development Emily Gaynor Dick-Forde said during the Budget debate yesterday. Gaynor Dick-Forde added, "The dedicated citizens in UDeCOTT must be commended for their fortitude and decency in the face of sustained and sometimes bitter criticisms and allegations from oppositional...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
'ALMOST READY': Emily Gaynor Dick-FordeSome $377 million in additional works are being carried out on the International Waterfront Project, in downtown Port of Spain and this has now resulted in a new total contract cost of $2.04 billion. The project, which had an original price-tag of $1.663 billion includes the two 26-storey office towers meant to comprise the Government's highly...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Planning Minister Emily Gaynor Dick-Forde says UDeCOTT has made a significant contribution to this country. She made the comment as she boasted that one of its projects-the Hyatt Regency hotel-is now a profit cash cow. Speaking on the Opposition's motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Patrick Manning at the Parliament sitting at the Red House, Port of Spain, on Friday, Dick-Forde...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Following Government's announcement of the establishment of the fund during the 2000/2001 Budget, the Ministry of Finance sought and obtained technical assistance from the Inter-American Development Bank to help establish the fund. Minister of Planning Housing and the Environment, Emily Gaynor Dick-Ford, said the assistance took the form of an expert in administration and management,...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... Ltd," the letter said. Khan said he and a group of Carlsen Field farmers met with Housing Minister Emily Gaynor Dick-Forde, the line Minister for the HDC, five weeks ago, and claimed that she assured, "no farms will be interfered with for the housing programme". "She even publicly say that no agricultural lands would be used for public housing; all over the country," Khan said....
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
HOUSING MINISTER: Emily Gaynor Dick-FordeFARMERS at Carlsen Field, Chaguanas, have stepped up their protest over Government's plans to construct 3,900 housing units on what they say is prime agricultural land. At an early morning protest yesterday at the Chase Village Flyover in Chaguanas, farmers blocked the road with burning debris and called on Housing Minister Emily...
