Phone company slams BK for latest damage to fibre optic cable

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) categorically rejects BK International’s attempt to “deliberately misrepresent the facts” surrounding the destruction of its cable infrastructure at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, saying the contractors were working outside of their assigned zone when the incident occurred.

In two press releases issued yesterday, both GT&T and the Ministry of Public Works said that the location of the damaged fibre optic cable in Tuesday’s incident was entirely outside of the area where Bk International was assigned to work.

“BK International uprooted a structurally sound pole and in the process damaged our buried cable infrastructure,” GT&T said. “The cable infrastructure could not