With interconnection still pending - Intelco has no significant revenue stream - and management claims that its hemorrhaging $55,000 a week in operational costs. That's why the lay-off of 9 staffers has raised eyebrows.
7 News has confirmed that four employees from Orange Walk, four from Belize City, and one from Belmopan were all given their walking papers.
But it's not as simple as cost cutting layoffs, 7 News confirms that the staffers from Orange Walk were fired after a whole storeroom filled with $60,000 worth of cell phones was clean out. And despite that confirmed case of theft, our checks with Orange Walk Police show that no complaint has been made.
The office staffers in Belize City were reportedly fired because they were busy doing nothing - and not specifically as a cost cutting measure.