Deputy Premier and Minister for Communications and Works, Honourable Kye M. Rymer is featured as he welcomed the Chairperson and Managing Director for Toshiba Water Solutions Private Limited (India), Mr. Hiroaki Kobayashi on Monday, February 27.

Madam Speaker, I am pleased to provide an update on the progress of work at the Burt Point Waste Water Treatment Plant.

Madam Speaker, as Honourable Members and the members of the public would recall, one of the major problems that the Government inherited when we took office in was the poor state of the sewerage infrastructure in several parts of the Territory, including in and around the Capital of Road Town.

Residents and businesses along Drake’s Highway from Nanny Cay to the BVI Electricity Corporation in Pockwood Pond are notified that the public water service will be temporarily interrupted on Thursday, February 2 and Friday, February 3 from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily.

Customers of the Water and Sewerage Department are advised that collections on Tortola will be partially interrupted on Friday, February 3, from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Services will resume at 1:00 p.m.

The Government of the Virgin Islands request tenders for the supply and delivery of precast concrete sewer manholes and pump station wet-wells structures for the East End/Long Look Sewerage Project on Tortola.

The public is advised that a portion of Flemming Street in the vicinity of the Roundabout and Sol Gas Station will be closed from Sunday, December 11 at 6:00 a.m. to Monday, December 12 at 5:00 a.m.

Residents and businesses of the Virgin Islands are reminded that for access to applications for new water and sewerage services is at http://bvi.gov.vg/departments/water-and-sewerage-department then click on Services.

Residents and businesses on Anegada are notified that officers from the Water and Sewerage Department Collections Unit will be present at the Theodore Faulkner Administration building to receive payables on Wednesday, November 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Residents and businesses of Meyers (Montessori School); Harrigan Estate; Georges Hallow and McNamara are notified that the public water service will be temporarily interrupted from today, Friday, November 4 to Tuesday November 8 from 9:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. daily, as a result of a broken water main line.

The Government of the Virgin Islands requests proposals for the repair, rehabilitation, commissioning, management, operation and maintenance of the waste water treatment plant, and design and construction of a sludge treatment facility at Paraquita Bay, Tortola.