BEYC pledges big $$$ for VG health care facilities
This welcomed announcement was made on Friday evening, February 27, 2015 at the resort’s 40th Anniversary celebrations. “… The community is one of the main reasons we’re here and its wellbeing has been and will continue to be a key part of Bitter End’s future, so tonight I’d like to announce that our family is pledging $100,000 to support the BVI Health Services Authority’s activities in Virgin Gorda,” said Mr Hokin.
He further said a portion of the commitment would be immediately provided to fund the purchase of capital equipment for Virgin Gorda’s two clinics while the balance will be released as a challenge grant over the following four years.
According to several of the resort’s employees who were on the spot as part of the service party and equally part of the celebrations, they intend to engage management in discussions about their lobbying for the government to expeditiously move forward with the construction of the promised new health care facility on the island.
“The clinics are important yes, [but] we still need especially the one at North Sound but we also want a hospital here and the politicians keep promising and we are not seeing anything,” Mr Flax, one of the guests at the anniversary celebrations, stated while several other employees gave their approval.
Present at the time of Mr Hokin’s announcement were Deputy Premier Dr the Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering, Chief Executive Officer of the BVI Health Services Authority Mrs Darlene Carty-Baptiste and 9th District Representative Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal, OBE among a few others.
Premier Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith, who later arrived for the event, personally expressed his gratitute to Mr Hokin and the Bitter End Yacht Club.
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