The National Housing and Community Development Trust does not know with certainty the whereabouts of all 84 trailers it imported to give temporary relief to people displaced from their homes by Hurricane Ivan.
Trailers have been put at four government-owned sites: in West Bay near the Ed Bush playing field, in George Town near Fairbanks Prison, and in Bodden Town behind the Civic Centre and also near the Mission House site on Gun Square Road.
In addition, some trailers have been rented to people with privately-owned land on which to put a trailer.
Figures supplied by the NHCDT to the Caymanian Compass concerning the number of trailers at the Government sites conflicted with figures supplied to the Auditor General’s office.
Neither of the sets of figures corresponded to the actual numbers on the sites.
As of last week, there were 33 trailers at the main Fairbanks site, although the numbering on the trailers only went up to 32 because two trailers – positioned next to each other – were numbered ’14’.
There are an additional four unoccupied trailers off to the side at the Fairbanks site.
‘Those are available for people that have their own property to put them on,’ said a NHCDT spokesperson.
In West Bay, there are 15 trailers, and in Bodden Town there are 20 trailers behind the Civic Centre and three trailers at site near the Mission House.
In total, there are 75 trailers on Government-owned land, apparently leaving nine trailers on private land.
The NHCDT originally said there were eight trailers on private property, and then raised that figure to ten. The Auditor General had originally been informed there were six on private property.
One of those trailers is on property adjoining the house of NHCDT manager Roger Bodden.
Besides the four trailers sitting empty next to the Fairbanks site, a NHCDT spokesperson said there were other trailers unoccupied on the government sites as well.
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