LIME cash squeeze could cost jobs<\/h4>\n
Cayman Islands<\/em> \u2013 Telecoms company Cable and Wireless want to shed losses and cut US$100 million in costs, but this could mean people\u2019s jobs here in the Cayman Islands\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Jamaica<\/em> \u2013 When the first ball is served at the start of the US Open tennis tournament today, sports fans in Jamaica will have behind-the-scenes access to that and other sporting events for three days on ESPN Play, available exclusively via the Flow network\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Jamaica<\/em> \u2013 The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) is calling for the resignation of the chairman of the board of Television Jamaica (TV), Milton Samuda, following an allegation that he confiscated the video camera of journalists who had conducted an interview with two Olympians last month\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) yesterday said its franchise store roll-out will have created 100-120 jobs by year-end, with another three locations set to open by October\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Grenada<\/em> \u2013 Grenada\u2019s government is exploring the possibility of establishing an ICT partnership with Trinidad and Tobago\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Jamaica<\/em> \u2013 Telecommunications provider, Digicel today introduced a new offer that allows customers on their Gimme 5 and Brawta plans to connect with their best friends for free\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Regional<\/em> – The Caribbean is not immune to the recent global attacks on computer networks and systems by Internet hackers\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Trinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 It\u2019s hard to get annoyed for long with the team at F1RST, a new technology startup that\u2019s gambling big on creating a Caribbean Internet platform designed to lubricate the schedules of today\u2019s connected limers\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Barbados<\/em> \u2013 The international controversy over state surveillance and spying has reached Barbados\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Belize<\/em> \u2013 The Caribbean is not immune to the recent global attacks on computer networks and systems by Internet hackers\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Dominica<\/em> \u2013 More than sixty young people from Dominica launched software applications delivering local content for government services, community news and agriculture alerts, as part of a historic Mobile App Development workshop in the island’s capital city, Roseau\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Haiti<\/em> \u2013 Tuesday, the College of C\u00f4te Plage of Carrefour proceeded to the launch to the Knowledge and Freedom Foundation (FOKAL), of the Network of Schools of Program Information Technology, Communication and Energy (REPTICE)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Jamaica<\/em> \u2013 ALREADY more than three months behind schedule, the Spectrum Management Authority hopes to take another step closer to the sale of two telecommunications licences next month\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Puerto Rico<\/em> \u2013 After more than a year of quietly reshuffling its Puerto Rico operation, Lexmark executives met with members of the media Thursday to outline future plans that call for a marked shift from being strictly known as a consumer-oriented, multi-functional printer maker to a solutions provider catering to a corporate market they say is leaning more toward adopting digital technologies\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 Cable Bahamas and the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) yesterday renewed their verbal war, this time over who was to blame for the delay in introducing number portability to this nation\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 One of the Cuban detainees allegedly beaten by detention center guards back in May claimed when he was interviewed by investigators that detainees paid money to defence force guards to use their uniforms in a video they made reenacting the abuse, and paid the guards to provide cell phones with video recording capabilities\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 Cable Bahamas has blamed BTC for delays in the implementation of what it is calling a “cornerstone” of true liberalization of the telecoms market in this country, after URCA announced it is postponing number portability due to a lack of “operator readiness”\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Belize<\/em> \u2013 The government of Taiwan through the embassy in Belize handed over a mobile police station dubbed the Police Peace Caravan along with Radio Communication Equipment and Repeaters to the Police department\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Jamaica<\/em> \u2013 There are fears that the mushrooming of private solar-energy solution systems may have triggered a spike in the theft of expensive batteries used at cell sites of the island’s telecommunications companies\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Regional<\/em> \u2013 Our Q313 Caribbean report analyses latest industry, regulatory and macroeconomic developments in the telecoms markets of 10 countries: Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n St. Kitts & Nevis<\/em> \u2013 Digicel St. Kitts and Nevis is making it easier for students and teachers to keep in touch and start the new semester in style with its Back to School Promotion\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Trinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 DIGICEL Business, the region\u2019s leading business solutions partner, today announced that the Pepsi Bottling Company has joined its growing list of valued customers\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Trinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 \u00a0Now that the bill is in\u2014$59 million\u2014for delivery of the People\u2019s Partnership campaign pledge to provide laptops to Form One pupils, a start should at least be made in evaluating the benefits\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Trinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 THERE are few commercial sectors that have experienced the kinds of fundamental impacts that new technologies have brought to the mass media\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Antigua & Barbuda<\/em> \u2013 The training facility for the Government Assisted Technology Endeavour (GATE) programme launched yesterday with reminders that it is part of a revolutionary move to transform communications \u2013 and, by extension, life \u2013 in Antigua & Barbuda\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Antigua & Barbuda<\/em> \u2013 \u00a0The Ministry of Telecommunications, Science and Technology on Thursday officially opened an ICT Cadet Training facility, which will be used to train hundreds of Antiguans and Barbudans in ICT\u2019s and New Media techniques\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Barbados<\/em> \u2013 LIME has confirmed that 200 workers will go home next month as a result of a deal with global provider Ericsson that will see the Swedish company taking over some of the telecommunications company’s technical services\u2026more<\/a><\/p>\n Cura\u00e7ao<\/em> \u2013 Bureau Telecommunications and Post (BTP) , in cooperation with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) will hold a Caribbean ICT Roadshow and an Internet Governance Forum from Monday 9 to Wednesday, September 11, 2013\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Columbia<\/em> \u2013 Cura\u00e7ao Technology Exchange (CTEX), together with KPMG Meijburg & Co., the law firm of Van Eps Kunneman and the HBM Group met with senior executives from 50 of Colombia\u2019s top Multinational corporations, the so called Multilatinas\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Jamaica<\/em> \u2013 LIME recently won a bid to manage the electronic mail platform of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, effective October 1, 2013\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Jamaica<\/em> \u2013 Embattled chairman of the of the board of Television Jamaica Ltd. (TVJ), Milton Samuda, Friday temporary stepped down from his position pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations that he had engaged in censorship when he restricted the questions to be asked of two Olympians last month\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Regional<\/em> \u2013 The Caribbean Community is transforming its agricultural sector into a competitive and sustainable system of agricultural production and services in which ICTs will play a vital role\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Regional<\/em> \u2013 Digicel Business announced today that it has achieved a Customer Satisfaction Excellence Gold Star from Cisco. This designation recognises Digicel Business for delivering outstanding customer service to its customers across the Caribbean, Panama and El Salvador\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Trinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 A total of 3,300 of the 21,500 Lenovo Thinkpad laptops bought by the People\u2019s Partnership Government, at a cost of $58 million, will be shipped to St Lucia as part of a government-to-government Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh said yesterday\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) will sponsor two youth at the International Telecommunication Union\u2019s (ITU), BYND 2015 Global Youth Summit in San Jose, Costa Rica next month. Both are recent graduates of The College of The Bahamas\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Barbados<\/em> \u2013 Social media is another avenue used to commit crime and police say it is a concern\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Trinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 Attorney representing Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in the controversial emailgate probe, Israel Khan SC, says he is anxious to know what information the Integrity Commission (IC) has received from an international electronic mail service provider regarding his client\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Jamaica<\/em> \u2013 The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has targeted more than 6,000 potential jobs in the information communication and technology (ICT) sector for the financial year 2013-2014 and it aims to make available J$6.3 billion to facilitate an estimated J$9 billion in business activities\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n Regional<\/em> \u2013 With back-to-school upon us, topping up cell phones for students, parents and teachers alike has just been made a lot easier and cheaper for family, friends and colleagues of LIME customers living in the USA\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image credits: RambergMediaImages <\/a>(flickr); \u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>; \u00a0 Wikipedia<\/a>; \u00a0Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n ____________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A roundup of ICT\/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 26 August to Sunday 1 September 2013. 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Journalists call for resignation of TVJ chairman<\/h4>\n
Tuesday, 27 August 2013<\/h3>\n
BTC Franchises To Create 120 Jobs By Year-End<\/h4>\n
Grenada Exploring ICT Partnership With Trinidad and Tobago<\/h4>\n
Digicel\u2019s launches \u2018best friend for free\u2019 promotion<\/h4>\n
Caribbean vulnerable to hackers- expert<\/h4>\n
On being young, gifted and techy<\/h4>\n
Wednesday, 28 August 2013<\/h3>\n
Facebook turns down Barbados government\u2019s request for info<\/h4>\n
Technology experts to help defend Belize against internet attacks<\/h4>\n
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Bright future for Dominica mobile apps<\/h4>\nHaiti – Technology : Launch of Network of Schools REPTICE<\/h4>\n
Telecom licence auction moving again<\/h4>\n
Lexmark Shifts Focus From Printers To Business Solutions<\/h4>\n
Thursday, 29 August 2013<\/h3>\n
BTC ‘Vehemently Denies’ Cable Portability Claim<\/h4>\n
Detainees\u00a0 \u2018paid guards for cell phones, uniforms\u2019<\/h4>\n
Cable Bahamas blasts BTC for delay in key liberalization step<\/h4>\n
Taiwan donates Communication Equipment to Police<\/h4>\n
Telecoms Firms Lose Millions To Battery Theft At Cell Sites<\/h4>\n
\u201cCaribbean Telecommunications Report Q3 2013″ Published<\/h4>\n
Teachers & Students Get 1000 FREE Texts in Digicel\u2019s \u201cBack to School\u201d Promotion<\/h4>\n
Digicel business adds Pepsi<\/h4>\n
Put free laptop policy to the test<\/h4>\n
Technological change, media and business<\/h4>\n
Friday, 30 August 2013<\/h3>\n
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GATE\u00a0enters new phase with opening of training facility<\/h4>\nGovernment opens ICT Cadet Training Facility<\/h4>\n
200 LIME workers\u00a0on way out<\/h4>\n
Caribbean ICT Road Show On Cura\u00e7ao<\/h4>\n
CTEX Together With Its Partners Present The Business Case For Cura\u00e7ao As The Region\u2019s Newest Technology And Business Nexus<\/h4>\n
LIME wins bid to host ministry’s e-mail service<\/h4>\n
TVJ chairman steps down, pending outcome of investigation<\/h4>\n
CARICOM\u2019s e-agriculture strategies<\/h4>\n
Digicel Business Recognised by Cisco for Excellence in Customer Satisfaction in the Caribbean, Panama and El Salvador<\/h4>\n
Tim buys 3,300 extra laptops for St Lucia<\/h4>\n
Saturday, 31 August 2013<\/h3>\n
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URCA to Send Youth to ITU UN Meeting in Costa Rica<\/h4>\nSocial media used for crimes<\/h4>\n
What did Internet provider disclose?<\/h4>\n
Sunday, 1 September 2013<\/h3>\n
DBJ To Fund $9B In Business Opportunities – ICT Sector Targeted For Thousands Of Jobs<\/h4>\n
TopUp in the US and get big savings with LIME<\/h4>\n