Government from its long-time Prospect headquarters in September, has found a new home on the old US Base lands in St. George's.

BPHA chairman Mr. Willard Fox confirmed last night that the association will be moving into a ground-level facility just inside the former Naval Air Station's main gate by the middle of January.

And while he felt some members of the association, which will become the Base's first non-Government tenant since the US Navy pulled out almost three months ago, might find it "a little difficult'' to reach the site, he did say that the Kindley Field facility did constitute an improvement over the association's previous home.

"It'll be larger, on ground level and better than what we have now,'' Mr. Fox told The Royal Gazette . "The only hitch is transportation. It'll be a bit hard to get to. It's a bit out of the way.'' Even so, the chairman revealed last night, the building at Kindley Field will present the BPHA with facilities and opportunities that it never before had.

In addition, to a new bathroom, air conditioning, kitchenette and ramping that the Works Ministry is installing for an undisclosed amount, the Base land building is also next to a 50-by-100-foot tarred area the association plans to use for social events and fundraisers.

"We can play basketball and volleyball or hold concerts there,'' Mr. Fox said of the blacktop. "We hope to have more functions and fundraisers.'' The new facility will also allow the association's 13 to 15 staff members to continue with the mailing and envelope-stuffing business that keeps them busy for some 21 days out of every month and provides them with a degree of financial independence.

In September, that independence was threatened when the Works Ministry, which had provided the association with a rent-free workshop in the Old Military Hospital for more than 20 years, gave notice that it would have to move out by the end of this month.

After a spate of negative publicity, Government eventually softened its position, offering to find the association an alternative facility and coming up with the present site.

"They have been pretty good about it,'' Mr. Fox admitted. "Relations were tense there for a while, but they came up with the money. They have come through.'' The chairman, who said most of the association's centrally located members will use the current East End shuttle bus to get to Kindley Field, added he will soon be trying to negotiate a "long-term'' agreement with the Ministry over use of the Base land site.