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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is moving into the International Waterfront Centre on Wrightson Road, Port of Spain.

The Ministry is now housed in two separate buildings in the capital city and will join the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries in Tower C, one of two 26-floor towers comprising the International Waterfront Centre.

Not everyone will have their properties valuated this year, said Mervyn Thompson, senior valuations surveyor, Ministry of Finance. “There is no way we will be able to cover every property in T&T. Although Britain is the most orderly and registered country in the world, they are still looking at a 90 per cent coverage. This is 2010, which is the first year of the taxation, and we are not going to say that we will get anywhere near total coverage. “You are dealing with human beings you are dealing with people who are not going to let you into their properties and you will have to guess what their annual rental value is.

New home-owners who benefited from Government’s housing project at Harmony Hall, Gasparillo, are complaining of cracks in their apartments. The cost of each apartment is $220,000. The residents said they expected to move into their new apartments at the end of January but to date the building remains incomplete.