Dunbars workers to ‘pick up the pieces’ and wait for reassignment, while Agriculture will move into Nugent Avenue ‘hospital’

Following a meeting at the Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday
morning, January 2, on the future of the Dunbars Agricultural
Station, the president of the Antigua and Barbuda Public Service
Association confirmed that the workers have been turned out, but
have no idea where they will be relocated.

According to Joan Peters, who spoke with REAL News reporter
George Wehner, the permanent secretary could not say where the
research agency’s employees would be re-sited.
All she knew is that the Dunbars staff would spend the rest of this
week picking up the pieces, and would be given further instructions
next Monday.

However, she confirmed that the Ministry headquarters will be
moved, since the building, located on Independence Avenue and
Queen Elizabeth Highway, has been condemned.

Peters says it is expected that operations will be moved to the
former NTTC Building on Nugent Avenue, which – in 2021 – Health
Minister Sir Molwyn Joseph had said was being repurposed as a
satellite hospital and named in honour of Dr. Sir Cuthwyn Lake.

Meanwhile, the director of agriculture, who also was present at the
meeting with the public secretary, declined to comment on the
situation with the Dunbars workers.