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Jamaica could potentially see new operator Rock Mobile enter its telecoms market with a former banking executive at the helm after enquiries were made with the country’s regulator on new entrant market conditions.
The Jamaica Gleaner reported, former head of Scotiabank Jamaica Bruce Bowen and his wife Suzanne Fernando-Bowen, contacted the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) in response to its Spectrum Cap Consultation launched last year, to enquire on the equal distribution of spectrum to enable new market entrants.
Daryl Vaz
Acutely aware that the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology (MSET) became known for controversy under the last Government, new MSET Minister Daryl Vaz is determined to shed its scandal tag.
“It has not missed me in any way that this Ministry is the make it or break it for me, despite the fact that some may feel that I am not that smart,” Vaz quipped at a press conference on Wednesday.
It is against that background that he has named a team of high-profile figures from business and academia to the boards of public bodies under his watch. Metry Seaga, Jacqueline Sharp, Professor Ishenkumba Khawa and Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee are among those chosen to advise and lead the entities which include Petrojam, which has been more associated with scandal than performance in recent years.
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