By Jeff Trotman
The proposed Digicel Children’s Rehabilitation Centre in Linden will be a main agenda item when the Linden IMC holds its monthly statutory meeting today.
The proposed multi-million dollar project became immersed in controversy when a Special Buildings Committee of the Linden IMC put the project on hold one day after a sod turning ceremony.
Jacqueline James, Digicel’s Head of Marketing, along with Chairman of the Region Ten Democratic Council, Sharma Solomon; the Linden IMC Chairman, Orrin Gordon and Education Ministry representative, Evelyn Hamilton, participated in turning the sod, witnessed by representatives from the Linden Town Council, the Region Ten Education Department, stakeholders and students from several Linden schools.
The Linden IMC Chairman has expressed concern about an article in this newspaper that focused on the project being put on hold by the Special Buildings Committee of the town council a day after the sod turning ceremony because Digicel had requested to begin “preparatory” work before the architectural plan was submitted for approval. Gordon said, following the publication of the article,