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GT&T rewards ‘good Samaritan’

Oct 21, 2010 News

While the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) has been experiencing an enormous “setback”, as result of constant vandalism of external implants belonging to the company, Leroy Smith, was yesterday rewarded by the company for his concerned citizenship in reporting such vandalism.
On September 30, last, around 2:00am, Arlington McPherson, of ‘D’ Field Sophia was seen cutting a GT&T cable located on Brickdam outside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
According to Smith, who was rewarded with an undisclosed amount of cash, the man had already cut part of the cable when he (Smith) alerted the Police who subsequently caught the man in the act.
The man was apprehended and charged with vandalism and damage to property.
According to Manger of Security, GT&T, Edgar Blackman, the cost to repair the damaged cable was $1.6 million; however had he been able to continue his ‘operation’ the expenditure would have been more.
Blackman further explained that every time an incident of this kind occurs it does not only affect the company.
The man said that customers whose telephones may have been connected to the destroyed cable would also be affected.
He added that this can be catastrophic in the long run since customers usually use the phone to dial emergency numbers and if the phone isn’t working they can’t do such, said Blackman.
Smith encouraged his fellow citizens to be on the “look out” for such acts of vandalism; since according to the young man, “once the security of a nation is crippled we can consider the nation to be the same”.

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