Medical centre roof ‘key to the future of healthcare’ on VG- Hon Wheatley
Hon Wheatley made this statement during the contract signing for repairs to the medical centre’s roof on August 11, 2026. The $562,100 contract was awarded to Professional Roofing Ltd.
“Since taking office in 2023, we embarked, in the Ministry of Health, on a very ambitious transformational agenda, and I’m so pleased today to come to this point,” the Health Minister said.
He added that this was not just about signing a contract for a roofing project, but is a sign of hope for the development and expansion of healthcare on Virgin Gorda.
“The way the clinic is set up now, it is not the way it is intended to be set up. This roof here holds the key to the future of healthcare on Virgin Gorda.”
Expansion of services upon completion
Hon Whealtley said upon completion there will be an expansion of services offered at the Nurse Iris O’Neal Medical Centre in the medium to long term.
“This roof is going to open up a whole second floor of that building that’s currently empty. The front-facing services we hope to have on the bottom and longer care are going to go on the second floor; dentistry and all those other things that are currently happening infrequently.”
Hon Wheatley said recently a sonogram training was held for nurses stationed at the Nurse Iris O’Neal Medical Centre as well as the Dr D Orlando Smith Hospital.
“We hope to do more training for more services on Virgin Gorda…[so] persons don’t have to catch that ferry ever so often to come to Tortola.”
He spoke of a recent incident where a young woman had to go over to Tortola from Virgin Gorda at 12:30 AM and said those occurrences need to be minimised where persons have to come to Tortola for simple things. ‘The long-term goal is to have persons come very infrequently over to Tortola by offering certain services there on Virgin Gorda.
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$562,100 contract signed to repair Nurse Iris O'Neal Medical Centre's roof
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13 Responses to “Medical centre roof ‘key to the future of healthcare’ on VG- Hon Wheatley ”
James Todman Construction - BVI man
He already pocketed over $6Million for a $2Million building without a roof.
Of course he probably had to share some of the additional $4Million with some HOA folks.
Why we paying someone else. Either Todman should fix it or if we don't trust him after our previous experience he should pay for someone competent to do the job.
Vi publics taxes should not be paying twice.
Contract got bumped up over 7 million. And it still leaked!