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NHC rebuilding Albert family home

Government has finally started rebuilding a house for the Albert family at Haggatt Hall, St Michael, after dismantling their home ten years ago to make way for the Dash Valley road expansion project.(Picture by Maria Bradshaw.)

By Maria Bradshaw | Fri, January 27, 2012 - 12:08 AM

The National Housing Corporation Unit at Country Park Towers, St Michael, which became the scene of a fiery family dispute last Wednesday was supposed to be a temporary location for the Albert family.

Michael Albert, who died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday after suffering fourth degree burns to 90 per cent of his body, his eight siblings, and his father Prince Albert Lynch, were relocated to two separate units at Country Towers ten years ago by the Ministry of Transport and Works (MTW), which dismantled their home at Dash Valley, St George, to make way for a road expansion project.

In 2010, following the death of his father, Michael complained to THE NATION about the length of time it was taking for Government to honour its promise to rebuild a six-bedroom family home for them at Haggatt Hall, St Michael.

Yesterday Michael’s grieving sister Cecilia said that of all the siblings he was the one who was determined to see that the house was built.

Read the full story in today's WEEKEND NATION.

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Posted by sandra padmore lewis 3 months, 3 weeks ago

This is such a sad story that could have been avoided if the NHC had kept its promise and had repaired their home. NHC did not literally set the fire, the brother did, however NHC created the tension. NHC destroyed the family unity and harmony; and separated them from the support of their community and extended family.  The Government pushed down this family’s home in Dash valley to widen the roads but never got around to rebuilding the home. Instead, the Government placed the family in these temporary dwellings. If the Government had rebuilt the family home where all of these children once lived in harmony then more than likely this tragedy would not have happened. What the Government failed to realize when they destroyed so many homes was that they destroyed many families…they unravel the threads that kept these families together.  There are still so many families waiting to have their homes rebuilt by the Government, especially Dash Valley. It seems as though the Government has purposely forgotten their promises to these people to rebuild their homes.  Out of the cries from tragedies usually comes action and hopefully the Government will understand that they need to keep their promise and rebuild the many homes they have destroyed, especially the families form Dash valley St. George where these two young men lived most of their lives.

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