Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land says his of­fice is look­ing in­to con­cerns ex­pressed by Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) ten­ants at In­de­pen­dence Square about their re­lo­ca­tion

In an in­ter­view on CNC3’s Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, Scot­land said he met with HDC of­fi­cials on Sun­day and as a re­sult some of the af­fect­ed res­i­dents were giv­en more time to re­lo­cate.

He al­so as­sured that the res­i­dents will be of­fered as­sis­tance to in­te­grate in­to their new en­vi­ron­ment.

“Some units have been found in San Fer­nan­do. This will re­quire phys­i­cal mov­ing that will take time,” Scot­land said. “It will re­quire re­lo­ca­tion as it per­tains to schools. If there is a need for as­sis­tance in find­ing schools that are clos­er to the area, that will be pro­vid­ed. Any as­sis­tance that is need­ed in a struc­tured way will be pro­vid­ed to the le­git­i­mate res­i­dents”

Ac­cord­ing to Sc­cot­land, there are res­i­dents who have been il­le­gal­ly oc­cu­py­ing apart­ments, as well as res­i­dents who did not take the nec­es­sary steps to reg­u­larise their sta­tus while liv­ing in a unit with oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers. He said his of­fice will be work­ing with all who have been dis­lo­cat­ed.

“There is a hu­man­i­tar­i­an as­pect and what we do in­tend to do though, once we get the in­for­ma­tion, I will cer­tain­ly en­gage the HDC, with­out mak­ing any promise,” he said.