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Barbados: Call for Inquest

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 10 August 2009 13:54 GMT

As the government announces that it “will be demolishing three properties at Archcot Terrace…as it moves to get the area to return to normalcy,” Barbados Free Press maintains that not enough is being done to investigate the building collapse that killed the Codrington family almost two years ago.

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  • Pingback: Barbados: Arch Cot Inquest · Global Voices

    […] “Five people dead, big names involved, public allegations of negligence, witness intimidation – and three and a half years later we are told that the entire power of government and force of law behind the inquest couldn’t get some brush cleared from the disaster site in time for an inspection”: Barbados Free Press says that “this is just one more thing that shows the lack of commitment to get at the truth” behind the Arch Cot Disaster. […]

    6 December 2010, 19:30 pm

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