Caribbean Housing Limited

6 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 9, ISSUE 7 the townhouse concept – in and around Port of Spain and elsewhere in the country, as well as in their present development, Brentwood – situated atop a portion of its sugar cane land. Currently building their second shopping center in Brentwood, CHL has further diversified from houses into creating complete communities for the residents. Fortunately, CHL owns some large-scale properties to accommodate this type of development. Like every business, Caribbean Housing Limited has been impacted by COVID over the last two years, however, the supply of material was not a major problem. What happened was that there were several government-imposed shutdowns, when CHL had to stop all construction in order to prevent the spread of COVID. “That was somewhat disruptive but we got over it eventually,” says Dr. Bahadoorsingh. “When you start a project and then stop, it takes a little while to get going again but we have good people and we’re able to manage that process. It has delayed our completions but we keep going and I think we have done pretty well.” CHL operates from one head office facility in Chaguanas and sub-office facilities at each of its many project sites. They have approximately 120 employees working directly on staff, but they actually give employment to hundreds of people. When it comes to the company culture, Dr. Bahadoorsingh shares that the glass ceiling doesn’t exist. “At Caribbean Housing we try to choose the best at all times. And a peculiar thing has happened in the last 25 to 30 years, in that women have taken over our business and I think it is wonderful. But as I said, we simply go after the best available, regardless of any CAR I BBEAN HOUS ING L IMI TED