THE NUMBER of building inspectors employed to the Manchester Parish Council is inadequate. But, according to Kenneth Mullings, the Superintendent of Roads and Works for the Manchester Parish Council, his team had managed to complete at least 80 per cent of the requirements for building inspection."Some things will slip you, you would have to be out there for 24 hours (to prevent it)."
However, Malcolm Housen said that in his 20 years in construction, he has never seen a building inspector on one of his construction sites.
Homer Brodie, the managing director of Garantee Construction Company, said he too was concerned with building inspection.
CHURCH COLLAPSED
Referring to the seven-year-old Church of God of Prophecy on Levy Lane in Mandeville, a section of which collapsed during the hurricane, Mr. Brodie said, "That is an indication of poor, poor construction. If it was inspected it would not have happened."
On Thursday, Milton Brown, Mayor of May Pen, said at another in the series of this newspaper's post-'Ivan' Editors' Forum at the Lionel Town Police Station in Clarendon that the Clarendon Parish Council was also restricted in carrying out building inspections because of an inadequacy in the number of building inspectors.
But he said the Parish Council would be employing two compliance officers to assist in ensuring that contractors carry out inspections. The contractors also said the lack of maintenance of public institutions in Manchester had contributed to the widespread devastation that was caused to public and commercial institutions as a result of the hurricane.
