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Monday, February 5, 2007
Rudy Gurley, a former Cable & Wireless executive, has called for an investigation into alleged discrimination and corporate bullying against Caribbean nationals by the telecommunications company. Gurley who served Cable Wireless in Grenada and St Lucia as vice-president of Strategy and Business Development and chairman of the Board of Directors of C&W Grenada, called on the BBC to investigate the corporate bullying and discrimination seemingly practised to brutal effect by Cable & Wireless against its Caribbean employees." According to Gurley, the West Indian managers who served C&W when Digicel threatened to take over market share, are currently being discarded like used Kleenex from the companys managerial posts. Citing his own circumstances as well as the example of Colin James, the Antiguan chief executive of C&W St Lucia dismissed with immediate effect after 27years of service, Gurdy claims that there is a clear plan by Cable and Wireless British owners to dispose of the West Indian Managers. Reports in the Caribbean indicate that chairman of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, intends to seek clarification from the British Telecommunications giant C&W on alleged plans to eliminate top-ranked Caribbean nationals from the company's hierarchy.
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