The 10 million US dollars flood alleviation and mitigation project for the Belama Project was signed in November of 2011 in the wake of Hurricane Richard. But two years later, there's no alleviation or mitigation for Belama resident who end up inundated every time there is a heavy rain. Indeed, nothing discernible has happened with the 5 year project. And that PM says that's because it's funded by the IDB - which moves at a glacial pace. We asked about it at his press conference on Wednesday:.
Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"The flood mitigation project indeed it is just now starting. The frustration has been for us intense, but these people have their processes. In a sense, you want to tell us about our being slow, comparatively speaking, we are like a hair. When you look at the way the CDB and the IDB and the Union proceed, so you ought to be commending us for doing so much better job than it appears is the international norm."
The first component is the establishing of an Execution Unit - which we gather been done.
