Camille: Advertisers breaking the law

PLANNING MINISTER Camille Robinson-Regis said companies could be breaking the law through the unregulated erection of billboards along the nation’s main highways, and Government will soon announce an advertising policy to deal with the principal offenders.

Speaking with reporters during a tour of a housing project in Curepe, the Minister disclosed: “Right now we are looking at an advertising policy and as soon as that policy has been accepted, we will deal with those billboards because they appear to be in contravention of the law but there has been no policy set. The policy has been completed, we are going to look at it, advance it to the Cabinet and then we will act on the perpetrators.” The billboard issue was one which her predecessor and current Housing Minister, Dr Keith Rowley, was dealing with prior to last month’s Cabinet reshuffle. On the national housing programme, Robinson-Regis agreed with Rowley that the foundation laid by his predecessors Danny Montano and Martin Joseph was quite extensive. “All of us did work that we had to do at a particular point in time. We are working together to ensure that you see houses coming out at a particular rate. This year is the year we have deemed the year of delivery, 2003-2004. You are going to see homes being built and people occupying these houses,” she declared. Dr Rowley will discuss Govern-ment’s housing thrust with the chairmen and CEOs of financial institutions tomorrow at a breakfast meeting at the TT Chamber of Commerce in Westmoorings and will hold a similar meeting with contractors next week.