Business View Caribbean | April 2021

87 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN APRIL 2021 DOC ’ S GROUP OF COMPANI ES additional things that will make the house look better. Economically, it will grow their wealth from investing in their properties and it grows in value. I’m seeing it as a way to keep a sustainable middle class and at the same time they will earn and grow themselves as we go along.” Gosine has already been in talks recently with Trinidad’s Housing Development Agency. He acknowledges, “I met with the Minister and I let her know this is the manner and method we have to use. We are not giving anybody anything for free, but we give them something that they can afford. And with government interventions we will be able to do it more and more. And you wouldn’t have to pull a penny out of the public purse.” Gosine has also had productive talks with the Minister of Housing in Guyana about his plans, and he hopes to expand his efforts even farther. “They are all on the same page of this,” he says. “They think it’s a very good idea and they can work with this. I am seeing the whole of the eastern Caribbean needing housing like what I do, incorporating roofs that don’t get easily blown off. We do concrete roofs and, with today’s technology, we have a coating that allows the roof to remain at ambient temperature even at 2 o’clock in the afternoon when the sun is very hot.” The company has plans in the works to upgrade technology and integrate Five Variant FRP– fibre reinforced polymer – bars, which are 25 percent of the weight and stronger by half than carbon steel rebar. It will also allow that building to last 100 years plus without deteriorating the concrete. In carbon steel, after a while the oxygen starts to carbonize and then it creates cracks in the concrete. With FRP that won’t happen, and the building will last for a considerably longer time. In addition to building more economic housing, DOC’s Group of Companies is also focused on constructing houses and buildings “for everyday people who have land.” They are currently building 20 to 30 Shymdeo Gosine, Managing Director