Business December 14 2025

Cedric Stephens | Closing the insurance gap

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Last Sunday, Christopher Burgess, PhD, civil engineer, land developer, climate change scientist, and newspaper columnist, drafted a blueprint of how government should approach rebuilding of the housing stock that was damaged and destroyed by Hurricane Melissa. Smart recovery, he wrote, must combine land tenure regularisation with a house starter kit to move families into permanent, climate-resilient homes.

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