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TMB Enterprises gets $798,108.74 contract for de Castro Street Sidewalk Improvements

- Work to begin in September 2026
TMB Enterprises signs its first contract with the Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency (RDA) Left is Jaheel Howe, left, a proud son of the Virgin Islands soil. Right is Trecia Howe. Photo: GIS
From left: The Chief Executive Officer of the Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency (RDA), Anthony S. McMaster, Junior Minister for Culture and Tourism, Honourable Luce D. Hodge-Smith (R4), Premier of the Virgin Islands, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7), Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development, Mr Joseph Smith-Abbott, Co-owner of TMB Enterprises Trecia Howe and Owner of TMB Enterprises Jaheel Howe at the contract signing ceremony. Photo: GIS
From left: The Chief Executive Officer of the Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency (RDA), Anthony S. McMaster, Junior Minister for Culture and Tourism, Honourable Luce D. Hodge-Smith (R4), Premier of the Virgin Islands, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7), Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development, Mr Joseph Smith-Abbott, Co-owner of TMB Enterprises Trecia Howe and Owner of TMB Enterprises Jaheel Howe at the contract signing ceremony. Photo: GIS
The signing ceremony took place on Thursday, July 30, 2026. Photo: GIS
The signing ceremony took place on Thursday, July 30, 2026. Photo: GIS
According to a Facebook post by the Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency, the project will transform one of Road Town’s most important corridors through the demolition and reconstruction of deteriorated sidewalks, improved drainage, new landscaping, and the creation of a safer, more attractive, and fully accessible pedestrian network. Photo: VINO/File
According to a Facebook post by the Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency, the project will transform one of Road Town’s most important corridors through the demolition and reconstruction of deteriorated sidewalks, improved drainage, new landscaping, and the creation of a safer, more attractive, and fully accessible pedestrian network. Photo: VINO/File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency (RDA), in partnership with the Government of the Virgin Islands, has signed a $798,108.74 contract with TMB Enterprises for the Sidewalk Improvements to de Castro Street in Road Town.

This milestone marks TMB Enterprises’ first contract with the RDA and is led by Jaheel Howe, a proud son of Virgin Islands soil, highlighting the growing capacity of local businesses to help shape the territory’s future. 

The signing ceremony took place on Thursday, July 30, 2026.

The project will improve sidewalks

In an article by our news centre on July 26, Junior Minister for Culture and Tourism, Honourable Luce D. Hodge-Smith (R4), stated that “It’s a major project to be completed. It [the sidewalk] is unsafe. It’s unsafe for pedestrians,” Hon Hodge-Smith said, adding that she has received a lot of complaints about persons getting “tripped up” because of the unevenness of the sidewalk.

The Junior Minister stated that the aim of this project is to make sidewalks wheelchair accessible and up to ADA standards, and therefore, both sidewalks on de Castro Street will be widened and made even.

According to a Facebook post by the Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency, the project will transform one of Road Town’s most important corridors through the demolition and reconstruction of deteriorated sidewalks, improved drainage, new landscaping, and the creation of a safer, more attractive, and fully accessible pedestrian network. 

'Provide safer movement'

The RDA added that once completed, the upgraded streetscape will provide safer movement for residents, visitors, seniors, children, and persons with disabilities, while strengthening the capital's appeal and business profile. 

The project is being delivered in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development, with funding from the Government of the Virgin Islands as part of the Road Town Development Partnership. 

Officials describe the initiative as more than a sidewalk improvement, calling it an investment in accessibility, opportunity and the continued revitalisation of Road Town.

21 Responses to “TMB Enterprises gets $798,108.74 contract for de Castro Street Sidewalk Improvements”

  • bvi (31/07/2026, 08:33) Like (21) Dislike (0) Reply
    waste
  • resident (31/07/2026, 09:01) Like (22) Dislike (0) Reply
    Wow, money to waste. What is really so wrong that needs fixing???? These politicians don't disappoint.
  • LOL (31/07/2026, 09:39) Like (27) Dislike (4) Reply
    Gotta take care of thier fallen VIP member's family in a "legal" way. The VIP will continue to fatten themelves and support their friends with tax payers dollars and call it legal business and transactions.
  • FEED UP (31/07/2026, 09:39) Like (27) Dislike (0) Reply
    You have got to be kidding us, where will the traffic go, why don’t you finish one project at a time. The mess you’ve all made of ether road from pack wood pond through seacows bay, shocking, just shocking
  • HMMM (31/07/2026, 10:20) Like (25) Dislike (0) Reply
    And i am sure this might be a project left halfway as the others up East and West.
    Completed 1 project then move on mann!!
  • ... (31/07/2026, 10:20) Like (6) Dislike (2) Reply
    Weeeeeeeelllllsa...wonder if it going have jerk chicken during work
  • Judy (31/07/2026, 10:31) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
    election on the way school children saying novermber because only VIP has a complete political party
  • Where is Coi? (31/07/2026, 11:03) Like (14) Dislike (0) Reply

    Why not fix what is broken. No water for the rest of the island

  • mehnknow (31/07/2026, 11:20) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    you know the sidewalks need to be Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant to keep the ships rolling in
  • Contract (31/07/2026, 11:42) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
    IT look like i have to go and study abroad to my license quick and fast cause if the government could give away this kind of money want some of it.
  • Norris Turnbull (31/07/2026, 12:21) Like (8) Dislike (1) Reply
    VIP supporters getting all the contracts. Wow
  • Very Wrong (31/07/2026, 14:41) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    @ Contract. The only qualification you need in order to benefit from a contract is to become a LOYAL member of the VIP. What justification is there for this project and what criteria was used to select TMB Enterprises to execute the work? It really begs the question as to how things are done in this place with no measure of accountability. This one urgently needs the COI to investigate it meson.
    • Shut up. (01/08/2026, 10:41) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      The same construction done to rebuild the new road going through the hills to sea cows bay was done by TMB Enterprise, and is the only construction in recent years that was done exceptionally well and in a timely manner. Do some homework before you speak.
  • Madness (31/07/2026, 15:38) Like (12) Dislike (1) Reply
    We need F%#*! WATER TO BATHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Fullit (31/07/2026, 20:36) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    We, as a people, are expected to celebrate the fact that a "son of the soil" is being paid to assist in the destruction of these Virgin Islands.

    Those trees have stood for decades. They are more than part of our landscape—they help stabilize the land and play a vital role in protecting Road Town from erosion, flooding, and ground instability.

    Once they're gone, even if replanted they will take years to prove the shade and protection they grant us now.

    Every day I look around this place and struggle to see my tax money working to do anything but enhance the wealth of the wealthy.
  • Really (31/07/2026, 22:21) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Really Loose. That look a money scheme.
  • oh father (31/07/2026, 22:53) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    Not even 5,000 square feet of sidewalk will cost us almost a million dollars? Okay. I even goggled the cost of demolishing an old sidewalk and then replacing same. Well according to Forbes, we just be replacing these sidewalks with gold-flexed concrete. No value for money in these Virgin Islands with this young Government. I guess cutting down the mahogany trees will cost at least $50,000 each. You really can't make this stuff up. Now we understand why $100 million is not enough to do anything in these Virgin Islands since our standards are so high and our completed work is top notch.
  • Get rich or die trying (01/08/2026, 00:09) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    These de castros again
    When we gonna open our eyes and see what’s in front of us.
  • I know this con man personally (01/08/2026, 13:47) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    This was the biggest con ever, instead of fixing the many other issues, on the island they prefer to fix what's not broken fishlock road side walks near the high school near to the H house practically non existent but yes lets overpay to build the wrong road then beg the uk for support while claiming we can be independent cant even clean up sea weed on time but spending almost a mill to rebuild sidewalks and up root trees to put in new trees that still don't give the people walking on the side walk shade to begin with bus stops and all run down highway got no shade what so ever but lets fix what's not broken to show we supporting local "business" men
  • UK (02/08/2026, 12:21) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Yet another reason for direct rule.
  • Lucky (02/08/2026, 14:26) Like (0) Dislike (2) Reply
    It's a curious question that I think need to be answered if not already. How come we see the signing of all those contracts and the amount they were awarded for but the back road to north sound on virgin gorda was never inked on the news nor was the amount made public or the contractor.
    Isn't that a government project and it's only fair for the ppl to know all this information just like the other contracts being issued to contractors.
    Politricks at its highest in this little place we call home.


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