The Urban Development Corporation, UDC will be relocating fishers from the informal Forum Fishing Village in Portmore, St. Catherine.
A new fishing village will be established off the Port Henderson Road also known as Back Road, in the parish.
The Forum Hotel was sold in January to a partnership led by businessman and owner of the Burger King franchise in Jamaica, Richard Lake.
General Manager at the UDC, Desmond Malcolm says occupants of the informal settlement, including commercial interests and residents, are required to vacate the beach in light of the UDC’s sale of the property.
Those settlers were originally set to vacate the property on July 28.
However, Mr. Malcolm says the UDC has extended the relocation period.
Mr. Malcolm says the UDC says the new accommodation for the relocated fisher folk will be purpose built.
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Desmond Malcolm, General Manager at the UDC.
