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Construction on these two structures had begun
when the UPP lost office in 2014. However, the The UPP Administration also repaired and
current Administration was challenged to bring resurfaced the road network, bringing paved
them to completion. The Treasury Building was streets to some areas for the first time.
finally commissioned in 2019, while the ADOMS
Building – seven years later – is said to be almost
completed but not yet occupied. The Grays/Green Community
Recreational Centre

Both were part of the UPP’s vision of modern
government in the technology age.
was closed down, years earlier, by the Lester Bird
completed during the UPP’s first term in office. Administration. Ironically, the hospital, this year,
It created space not only for its stated purpose was renamed by the present Administration in North Sound and Folleys Housing Projects
of school-plant maintenance, but enabled the honour of the late Sir Lester Bird.
expansion of the BoE’s Inventory Department These affordable homes were purpose-built –
and Book Scheme operations. The Medical Pavilion, meanwhile, houses the that purpose being the empowerment of civil

Cancer Centre, the brainchild of former Prime servants who wished to become home-owners
In 2014, 40 years after the original building Minister Baldwin Spencer, who persuaded the and raise their families in a comfortable and safe
was seriously damaged in the October 1974 OECS that a centre to serve patients of the sub- environment.
earthquake, the UPP completed and opened the region should be established here. Construction
permanent home of the National Public Library, was delayed after the UPP lost office, however.
removing this institution from its cramped
quarters above a Market Street store. The (State Insurance) Treasury This modern community centre, complete with
Department Building and offices and a covered basketball court, has
Through a grant from the People’s Republic The Antigua Department of Marine replaced the derelict structure affectionately
of China, the UPP Administration constructed Services (ADOMS) Building called ‘Knuckleblock’. It was intended to serve
the Five Islands Secondary School – which has the social and recreational needs of the Rural
since been co-opted for the establishment of West neighbourhoods represented by former
The University of the West Indies - Five Islands Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer.
campus.
Negotiations with the Government of the People’s
Republic of China and the design of the complex
had been completed when the UPP lost the 2014
The Mount St. John Medical Centre elections.

The UPP completed and opened the Mount St Since its substantive completion, however, use of
John Medical Centre in 2009, after construction BARBUDA the centre has been denied the Rural West youth,
in particular, since the sitting Administration has
On the sister-island, the UPP completed the relocated the St. John’s Magistrate Court there.
Barbuda Justice Complex to house the district
court and the police station. It constructed a The move was said to be a temporary one while
modern fishing complex, in collaboration with the High Street courthouse was being repaired.
the Government of Japan, to advance the sector, However, more than two years later, the centre
particularly the processing and exportation of still has not been turned over to the community.
Barbuda’s renowned seafood.

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