THE BISHOP of Mandeville, the Right Reverend Dr. Harold Daniel, has called on the National Housing Trust (NHT) to further strengthen its impact on the lives of Jamaicans by exploring additional avenues of shelter provision in some of Kingston's inner cities.
While acknowledging that the trust has been playing a major role in providing shelter for Jamaicans since its establishment 30 years ago, Bishop Daniel bemoaned what he said was the continuing decay in parts of the Corporate Area with which he was familiar, including some communities in eastern Kingston. The bishop noted that "there is a link between the decay in our cities and crime."
Dr. Daniel said he was gratified that the trust sought to come to the house of God to give thanks for its work over the 30 years since it began operations. "There is no doubt that God is actively at work, through the NHT, to provide homes for Jamaicans ... to give them the key to their own homes."
The Right Reverend Dr. Daniel was delivering the sermon at one of three regional services of thanksgiving attended by the Trust's board of directors, management and staff on Sunday at the St. Gabriel's Anglican Church in May Pen.
