Topic: NHDT general manager Julio Ramos

Days after a decision was made to truck hundreds of tons of vegetable matter to a non-profit farm, the board chairman of the National Housing Development Trust began diverting the material to land belonging to himself, his father and others, a court has heard.

Former National Housing Development Trust chairman Geoffry William Ebanks is on trial for breach of trust and conflict of interest in relation to 60 truckloads of cleared vegetation that he diverted to properties belonging to him and his father.

Affordable housing in the Cayman Islands continues to be a challenge, one that National Housing Development Trust general manager Julio Ramos knows all too well. The NHDT boss struggles daily to find ways to meet the demand for affordable housing that his agency was created to address.

A total of 196 applicants are awaiting low-cost homes at the National Housing Development Trust.