Linden IMC gives go ahead to Digicel for rehab centre

Orrin Gordon

By Jeff Trotman

After much heated discussion, the members of the Linden Interim Management Committee (IMC) voted last week for Digicel to proceed with preparatory work for the construction of a Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Special Needs.

The project was requested by way of a letter on Thursday, October 16, but had been turned down by four votes to two on the same day by the Special Buildings and Works Committee of the Linden Town Council over concerns that preparatory works were to be done without a plan being in place.

The request was refused one day after a much-publicised turning of the sod at the proposed site of the project. In raising the controversial issue at