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CABLE AND
WIRELESS
JAMAICA -
Following a name change on February 5, 1998 Cable & Wireless
Kingston Jamaica Limited replaced Telecommunications of
Jamaica Limited as the sole provider of the island's domestic
and international telephone services. (TOJ was incorporated in
May 1987 as the holding company for the Jamaica Telephone
Company and Jamaica International Telecommunications Limited).
Cable & Wireless Kingston Jamaica is the island's leading
provider of national and international fixed line services.
Cable & Wireless Kingston Jamaica remains the island’s only
full service provider, guaranteeing business and residential
customers reliable, tailored solutions in mobile and fixed
voice, data, IP (Internet Protocol) and broadband services, as
well as services to other telecoms providers. Cable & Wireless
Kingston Jamaica is owned 82% by Cable & Wireless plc with the
other18% being owned by members of the public. Cable &
Wireless Kingston Jamaica also owns Jamaica Digiport
International Limited, a company which provides high speed
data and other telecommunications services exclusively to free
zone and offshore companies
Cable &
Wireless Kingston Jamaica has had an enviable record of
outstanding corporate citizenship making major financial
contributions to education, health, sports and inner-city
development. Major beneficiaries have been the University
Hospital of the West Indies; the Sickle Cell Unit; the
University of the West Indies (UWI); the University of
Technology (UTech); The National Foundation for Science and
Technology and the Multi-Care Foundation, a private
sector-funded organization established to improve social
conditions and provide self-improvement opportunities for
inner-city youth. Cable & Wireless Kingston Jamaica is also
the major sponsor of the national High Schools Lawn Tennis
competition; the island's Junior Badminton program; the Senior
National Netball Team; the island's Special Olympics
programmed; and have adopted three primary schools in rural
Jamaica. In addition, Cable & Wireless Kingston Jamaica makes
hundreds of small donations to a plethora of other
organizations. In recent times Cable & Wireless Kingston
Jamaica established the Cable & Wireless Kingston Jamaica
Foundation to be the central vehicle for coordinating its
support for programs benefiting Education, and in particular
e-education, and Sports. His Policy states the measures Cable & Wireless Kingston
Jamaica (herein after referred to as the “Company”) shall
undertake to ensure that its telecommunication activities,
products and services are environmentally safe to its
customers, employees, and other stakeholders. To achieve this
goal Cable & Wireless Kingston Jamaica shall develop and
implement an Environmental Management System that complies
with ISO 14001 requirements. Cable & Wireless Kingston Jamaica
shall comply with all relevant Jamaican Legislation and
International Agreements, and shall integrate environmental
management into all business processes. It shall continually
improve its environmental performance and prevent pollution as
far as is reasonably practicable. In fulfilling its
responsibility Cable & Wireless Kingston Jamaica shall:
Perform periodic reviews of Company facilities to ensure
compliance with established C&WJ environmental policies,
procedures, corporate requirements, government guidelines,
applicable laws and regulations and other requirements,
support and assist Cable & Wireless Group Environment Strategy
Team in the development of future policies and standards,
identify and evaluate all operational undertakings which
affect the environment, and control and manage those effects
that are significant, promote environmental awareness among
all employees and ensure that all personnel whose work may
create a significant impact on the environment receive
appropriate training, review annually its environmental
performance and implement corrective action where necessary,
develop and maintain formal emergency and spill response
programs and report releases to the applicable governmental
agencies as well as Cable & Wireless Kingston Jamaica’s
appropriate personnel, monitor service providers to ensure
conformance with our environmental requirements, ensure that
plant is planned, installed and maintained with full regard to
its potential environmental impact, reduce emissions of
harmful substances to the atmosphere, ensure so far as is
reasonably practicable, that resources are not wasted and that
materials are reused and/or recycled, reduce, so far as is
reasonably practicable, and dispose of all remaining wastes in
an environmentally responsible manner, minimize the potential
contamination of water supplies and require suppliers of
materials and services to operate in an environmentally
responsible manner.
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