Comments on: Buildings On KEMH Campus To Be Demolished

By: Izzypop

Izzypop — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:55:26 +0000

There are a lot of smaller companies who hv the same machines

By: Izzypop

Izzypop — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:54:38 +0000

Always the big boys. They never help the small guys who hv the equipment

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:15:37 +0000

The well known nickname of Island Destruction is very well earned. How much construction have they done?

Oh & yes, if they can do the job as per contract for the best price, why not?

By: Jolly

Jolly — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 13:30:41 +0000

Only a few companies have that big equipment. He’s made the investment, so of course he’s in prime position for work like this!

By: Vote for Me

Vote for Me — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:53:22 +0000

An interesting article… goes to show that Minister DeSilva’s company can ‘compete with the best of them’.

By: Tom Cooke

Tom Cooke — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:24:31 +0000

As far as I know… this was supposed to have been done this time last year… but whatever. ..

By: Keepin' it Real!...4Real!

Keepin' it Real!...4Real! — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:34:51 +0000

Or Uncle Dunk may have felt obligated to give it…knowing the whining that it would have occurred had he not…

Hmmmm??…should I buy a truck or a dumpster…plenty of tonnage to transport…Drivers…START! YOUR! ENGINES!!

Yo Zane!…where you want dis load ?…airport? Or down de yard?

By: Keepin' it Real!...4Real!

Keepin' it Real!...4Real! — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:16:52 +0000

You may have read it a couple of times but it sounds as if you still don’t know what “protective hoarding” means or is.

By: Rico

Rico — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 22:49:18 +0000

Sure is.. Shows that the OBA doesn’t only choose family and friends, whoever can do the job for the right price and on time.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 22:04:45 +0000

Island Construction, isn’t that our Ex PLP Health Minister ?

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 21:43:16 +0000

“Protective HOARDING”? Had to read that a couple of times. Does that mean that a certain destruction company cannot salvage the stone out of the buildings & then sell it off later, after the dust has settled?

By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 21:38:20 +0000

“Both have been unoccupied and are in poor physical condition.”

Good reasons, I suppose, to demolish.

But why do we not recycle buildings to other purposes. Why must we always knock down and later build new?

Twenty years ago, a family member went to a well known E Coast university where the dormitory building that housed him in his freshman year was then 140 years old. Many of the lecture halls were in buildings that were well over 100 years old and they’re all still there. New buildings have been added; but at this university there is little of this ‘knock down’ and later – and expensively – build new.

H’mmm? What shall we knock down next?

Oh, there’s that building at 105 Front Street, immediately north of the Cenotaph. Been there well over a hundred years. And not much of any real use happens there.

Let’s knock it down. Start at 10am on a Tuesday morning with four big ‘dozers coming in at full speed from North, East, South, and West; and coming simultaneously.

I’ll watch and clap!