Wednesday, May 24th, 2000
Caymanian Compass

C&W Top Team Honoured

Cable & Wireless recently honoured 12 of its staff members for a job well done and presented certificates of appreciation, a Top Team pin and cheque at a recent luncheon at Cafe Tortuga.

A C&W press release said the team had responded to an urgent call from the police that a speeding car had destroyed a telephone line cabinet and they worked long hours to restore full service of 900 lines.

The First Quarterly Top Team Award recipients were Norman Carter, Aery Ebanks, Joel Ebanks, Glen McDermott, Jason McLean, Vaine Ramgeet, Mark Rankine, Patrick Solomon, Mauricio Terry, Robert Watler, Roger Watler, and Troy Wood.

Mr. Tim Adam, General Manager, gave a congratulatory speech.

It all began on a rainy night in November when Dervin McLean of Cable & Wireless received the call.Ê Mr. McLean, who is Supervisor of the External Line Department, called out 12 men from their beds at 1am.The outage included 886 telephone lines in the area of A.L. Thompson's (Cabinet #9) George Town.

First they prepared the area by disconnecting the old cabinet, which had been updated just two week prior, cleaned up the area of debris, and levelled the ground.

A new cabinet was prepared indoors, away from the rain.Ê Work on the new cabinet began at 10am on Sunday and continued until 2am that Monday when the new cabinet was taken to the site and the underground cables were connected to the new cabinet.Ê All was in working order by 5:45 Monday morning.

After the restoration there were only three faulty lines, which were immediately repaired to give a whole new set of 900 lines.(C&W)

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