Chairman of LIME Jamaica, Chris Dehring (second left) and three workers of Denholm Offshore — (from left) Dane Barrett, Kirk McDonald and Cavern McLeod — pull on the new fibre-optic cable that links Venezuela, Cuba and Jamaica. LIME only recently landed its East-West Cable that links Jamaica, the British Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic. Late last year, LIME and its parent company, Cable & Wireless Communications, signed a contract with Telecommunicaciones Gran Caribe (TGC), a joint venture between Cuba (Transbit SA) and Venezuela (Telecom Venezuela).
Under the agreement, LIME will be TGC’s strategic landing partner in Jamaica and Cable & Wireless Communications will carry voice and data traffic from Cuba to Europe. The 240-kilometre segment of the cable which runs from Cuba to Jamaica was landed yesterday in Ocho Rios, St Ann.
The 1500-km cable, which originates in Puerto de la Guaira, Venezuela is the first international telecoms cable connect to Cuba for several decades.
