The damaged Bellefield Great House, which has been in Mark Kerr-Jarrett’s family for generations, was a tourist attraction before Hurricane Melissa.(Photo: Charmaine N Clarke)
CONCERNED that there may be a repeat of the damage done by last October’s Hurricane Melissa — which wrecked history-rich buildings such as his company’s Fairfield Road office and his family’s Bellefield Great House — businessman Mark Kerr-Jarrett is among developers eager to hear more about the Government’s plan to share with them a tool that can help identify at-risk areas and suggest steps that can safeguard assets.
“All the people saying, ‘Oh, this [Hurricane Melissa] is a once-in-a-lifetime event’, I don’t think so. I think the way that the climate is going now, we’re going to see this fairly regularly, and we have to engineer and do the infrastructure improvements in order to minimise their catastrophic effect on the bu
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