LIME to cut staff

Between 50 and 100 employees at telecommunications company LIME are to lose their jobs over the next nine months as the company continues its downsizing exercise.



The company, formerly known as Cable and Wireless, has been reducing staff for the last seven months.



The job cuts are part of some 12 hundred which are to be made regionally.



Regional vice-president for corporate communications at LIME, Errol Miller, says the layoffs would be conducted periodically until September 2009.



Miller says the restructuring of the company is almost complete in Jamaica and therefore these cuts were the last of the downsizing.



He says he is not aware of when the job cuts would begin.



The employee target for the company regionally is 2,500 from the current staff of 3,700.