Occupants Receive Trailer Keys

The first trailer home occupants will receive their keys today (Friday, 28 January) in a ceremony taking place at 4 p.m. at the Ed Bush Sports Field in West Bay.

All 28 travel trailers that arrived in Grand Cayman last week have already been allocated, as have an additional 12 trailers which are slated to be here by weekend. These 40 trailers represent Phase One of the Cayman Islands Recovery Operation’s (CIRO) Temporary Housing Project

If you are receiving one of the first 28 trailers, you will already have heard from the Housing Office. The 12 families who have been approved for the trailers coming in this weekend were notified on Wednesday (26 January).

If you have been advised that you have been approved for a trailer, but have not been notified that your trailer is here, it could either be because your site is not yet ready, or because the Housing Office has slated you for a larger trailer, 44 of which are scheduled to arrive in the next 6–8 weeks. The larger trailers will also all have been allocated by the end of the month

To date, the Temporary Housing Committee has processed 126 applications, and more are being handled. Trailers are allocated according to a priority system and thus far, all have gone to those families deemed to be on a Priority One level of need.

Single-parent families with children under 17 years, the sick and the infirm are being treated as Priority One in the allocation process.

Location

There are three community sites:

• Nine trailers will go to the Ed Bush Sports Field in West Bay, to be handed over to the tenants on Friday (28 January), at 4:00pm. All tenants will receive their keys from the National Housing and Community Development Trust, who will be managing the three sites.
• Eighteen trailers will go to the Dr. Hortor Memorial site, on Fairbanks Road, in George Town. They will be handed over to their tenants on Friday, 5 February, at a time to be announced.
• Seven trailers will go to a site off Cumber Avenue in Bodden Town near the Old Mission House location. The handing over details are to be announced, but the expectation is for early February.
• Two trailers will be sent to an East End site, while four persons have had trailers approved for their own sites in different districts.