Business View Caribbean | August 2019

54 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN AUGUST 2019 work – that sort of thing – to survive because we we’re not getting the construction work we need to be able to do it full-time.” As it turns out, diversification of their portfolio succeeded in growing the business in different directions. Currently, the company is only operating from St. Croix, but they’re now working on moving back to St. Thomas to re-establish where it previously had a facility. Competition is strong in the USVI, especially on St. Croix. Daniel notes, “Our main difference is that 90 percent of our jobs are government contracts; federal work which involves more restrictions and paperwork, and we’re able to handle that kind of work much better. Our efficiency also gives us a competitive edge. For example, we have numerous different families where we’ve had three generations of employees working for us at the same time. Some have been working for us over 20 years and, in that time, they’ve honed the skills to do their job better than anyone else on the island. In fact, they’ve been doing road work for so long that some of them know how to grade a road, by