Premier: 2025-2026 Budget to focus on 'bread & butter issues' of the community
Dr Wheatley made this disclosure during Virgin Islands Voice on Wednesday, October 9, 2025.
"This means investing our time and resources into building roads, fixing our water situation, building more schools, investing more in our recreational facilities, investing in our social safety nets, and investing in community programmes to ensure that we keep our young people on the straight and narrow, investing in our solid waste disposal and environmental protection, investing in building our tourism product."
The Premier emphasised the importance of these priorities, noting that the government's focus on reforms has made significant progress over the past few years.
'We're not forgetting about the reforms'
He noted, however, that while the government's priority focus will be shifted, governance reform will not be forgotten.
"Yes, on governance reform, because that was the pressing challenge that we had to confront over the past three years. And now that we have remedied a lot of the concerns, we have to turn our attention more fully... We're not forgetting about the reform, because we have a transition plan to ensure that those reforms are institutionalised. We also need to focus on these community issues."
Premier Wheatley explained that as the government prepares for this year's budget speech and process, they are committed to establishing structures that will keep government priorities and the objectives of individual ministers and ministries in focus.
Earlier this year, the government held a meeting to discuss ministerial priorities, followed by a media meeting to further outline those priorities as they relate to the budget process.
"The key goal is to ensure that those priorities for 2026 are funded in the budget and that is going to be reflected in the budget speech that I will deliver sometime later this month," Premier Wheatley concluded.
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11 Responses to “Premier: 2025-2026 Budget to focus on 'bread & butter issues' of the community”
Najan Christiopher as well is a strong woman as well. I think she will do well in the HOA
Two siblings children of the late Delores Christopher past NDP rep.od District 5
The Roads are awful and a plan is needed so lets do it right and once. THis is a long commitment and needs planning from engineers not the bandaid patches we keep adding. Lets see some commitment to this in the next election.