{"id":11358,"date":"2018-11-05T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11358"},"modified":"2018-11-05T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:39:03","slug":"hdc-projects-hit-by-approval-woes-defects-mistakes-cost-2-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11358","title":{"rendered":"HDC projects hit by approval woes, defects Mistakes cost $2.4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>By Renuka Singh<br \/>\nNovember 05, 2018 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/hdc-projects-hit-by-approval-woes-defects-6.2.707500.e93fc2cfb5\">guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=raffique-shah\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/2773887.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Greenvale Park' \/><\/a>Construction variations or changes to the agreed scope of works at Housing Development Corporation (HDC) projects cost taxpayers some $2.4 billion between 2005 and 2017. These include two projects that had to be abandoned because of structural and engineering obstacles that were not determined before construction began.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes even as the ruling People\u2019s National Movement and Opposition United National Congress continue to spar over which party made the errors while in government which led to the recent flooding disaster at the Greenvale Park, La Horquetta development.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley confirmed that pressure to provide state housing to a growing market meant that the HDC was sometimes forced to bypass approvals and procedures to complete projects on time. Rowley served as minister of housing from November 2003 to November 2007 and during that time, two other projects were started and had to be stopped because of the lack of proper approvals.<br \/>\n<I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/hdc-projects-hit-by-approval-woes-defects-6.2.707500.e93fc2cfb5\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Renuka Singh November 05, 2018 &#8211; guardian.co.tt Construction variations or changes to the agreed scope of works at Housing Development Corporation (HDC) projects cost taxpayers some $2.4 billion between 2005 and 2017. These include two projects that had to be abandoned because of structural and engineering obstacles that were not determined before construction began. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HDC projects hit by approval woes, defects Mistakes cost $2.4 billion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,1,30,7,142],"tags":[1398,834,635,60,49],"class_list":["post-11358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flooding","category-general-tt","category-pnm","category-politics","category-unc","tag-greenvale-park","tag-guardian","tag-hdc","tag-keith-rowley","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11359,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358\/revisions\/11359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}