Business View Caribbean | October 2020

78 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN OCTOBER 2020 by Fides-Limited started in October 2018 and was completed in August 2019. Currently, the company is working on Queens Royal Castle. Built in 1902, QRC, as it is known, is the oldest secondary school in the country. The company also worked on the Cathedral of Port of Spain, the country’s first Catholic Church, built in 1781. Additionally, Fides Limited did all external works, inclusive of monuments at the Red House – which is the seat of Parliament – and President’s House, which is home to the country’s Head of State. Suarez says that when working on the restoration projects, he tries to use traditional building materials that match, as much as possible, the architectural and historical aspects of the buildings. “There are instances where we have to be innovative with respect to how we go about restoring,” Sagar notes. “There’s no way, for example, that you can source the original block, so what Yeimer did was construct blocks from scratch, using the methodologies to match Whitehall Founder, Shane Sagar