UberSoca Cruise met its objectives- Premier Wheatley
During a press conference on Friday, November 21, 2025, he expressed satisfaction with the arrival of the UberSoca Cruise to the Virgin Islands, stating, "This event drew thousands of visitors to our shores, underscoring our growing status as an emerging hub for entertainment-driven tourism in the Caribbean."
The Premier emphasised that the UberSoca Cruise showcased the best of the Virgin Islands—its people, culture, creativity, and spirit—while demonstrating the significant economic potential of entertainment and cultural expression to enhance our tourism product.
The premier congratulated Virgin Islands entertainers such as Jugo, boss, TJ, and Pascal, who he termed are "musical ambassadors for the Virgin Islands".
"In 2026, we'll continue to strengthen our tourism sector by enhancing our product with the incredible talents of our artists, musicians, and promoters who are making entertainment, tourism possible," he added.
Hon. Wheatley also acknowledged the efforts of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Sustainable Development, along with the events management team at the BVI Tourist Board and numerous volunteers, for their excellent preparations for the arrival of our friends from across the waters.
Will the data be made public?
Premier Wheatley stated, "We are presently analysing the data, so we can understand the economic impact of this event. We have surveys being completed by vendors and cruise goers. This will be the approach we will take to any event with significant government sponsorship."
When asked whether the data would be published to the media and the public, the Premier replied that he would be happy to share that information.
"We are developing a policy and sponsorship, and that policy will dictate how we deal with reports following events, but we recognise the responsibility that we have to the public to explain how, you know, public funds are used. So we'll be happy to share that data when it becomes available, and that's not just for this event, but for any event with significant government sponsorship.’’
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32 Responses to “UberSoca Cruise met its objectives- Premier Wheatley”
Half a million spent to get nothing in return other that his zeal for worthlessness and partying.
Where is the $750,000 expected objective…always some lame anancy story excuse.
I am sure just hoping that we will forget about that in time
“ NO ONE AT TOURIST BOARD IS NOT CONSIDERED AS PROFESSIONALS IN THEIR CRAFT” …it’s a double negative, which means that you’re saying that:
They are considered professionals in their craft.right?
School closed at half day to allow students and teachers to catch a quick break - yaaaaaaaaay
Students showing up to the uber party in their PE clothes and school tights and some still in uniform.....- huh??
Songs blasting in the speakers about she luv gunman up in she hole........... - huh????
the same gunman that we denounced and had crime summit for with the youths??? weird....
then yall wonder why so much minors dressing half naked, drinking rum on the festival grounds to the point you had to beg grown adults not to sell rum to minors!!!(they might be confused cuz the minors dress like grown women)
Then yah wonder why so much youths drop out school and involved in gangs like the money boys robbing people at gun point to support their fast life and party life that WE the bvi promote!
I think somthing more productive should of been in place to keep the youths them occupied instead of partying when exams are coming up..........................................
the best part is when the fete reach near round about at vanterpools and the scent of sweage water was strongggg looool. we really got our priorities in lines mehson
and whatever money gained from this will it be used positively to improve the conditions of the country? DOUBT . Will be used for another party or scheme yeaaa
i dont want to hear no politician or persons who supported the youths school being half day with nothing in exchange to keep them occupied complain about the gun crimes and robberies cuz yall promoting it strongly! actions show different yall not serious
party promotes dressing in
yah best clothes/jewlery to show off (needs money),
drinking rum - needs money,
sex,
drunk fights,
females fighting females over cheating man (i mean if the man like you half naked in public you dont think he would like woman outside of you doing the same thing?? lol clown)
weed smoking - needs money
songs promoting gunman to be supported and loved by females (thats why you got so much young girls/women helping and assisting their criminal boyfriends in crime..........most notably the incident where the old lady lost her life after hearing her granddaughter screaming outside and was shot....the young men return home give their guns to the young girlfriends while laughing.....................thats what yall is promoting!!! for young men/boys to be criminals and for young women/girls to love and support their stupid self destructive lifestyle!.... the next case was the escaped prisoner on the loose had so much women aware of his status but slept with him and supported him in hiding from the police... now hes out again.... a known killer...smh thats why you got grown men giving young kids sex drugs to go into the schools.... thats why you got grown men being predatory to students while working at the schools you trust your child with for 8hrs....
if yall still cant see the bigger and picture and what is going then it will be too late 10 years later when the same youths exposed to nonsense grow up and part take in our community... some will hold sensitive jobs like magistrate, cheif immigration, head of customs, politicians, financial services etc..... can you imagine a woman entangled with criminals, money launders, gunman, killers, hitmen, teachers, etc in those positions? the criminals will run everything and have access to everything thru them gunman loving girlfriends and the gunman them who dont want to work but live fast life will be living them best life while committing crimes like murder, robbery, extorting, human trafficking, money laundering, drug trafficking etc etc etc
Thats why yall had to cry out at this year festival when it had so much minors dressed half naked, so much youths smoking, so much youths drinking rum, so much youths cussing out yall adults cuz thats what yall promoted to them, so much youths getting alcohol poisoning.
Objectives met!
Rest assured. He doesn’t know how to do a financial analysis and doesn’t understand how you calculate return on investment.
His analysis is probably just a GPT generated paragraph about what a visionary leader he finds himself to be.
Actual analysis, such as the audit report on Covid grants, will get ignored by the government.
WAIT FOR IT.