And Zabaneh also spoke about a matter of great interest to his constituency - and that's the closing down of the Ready Call branch. We've reported on the closure after just 10 months of operation. That happened after Ready Call was acquired by another outsourcing operator called Fusion. He explained that they never knew the acquisition was happening:
Louis Zabaneh, Dangriga - Area Rep
"Well we obviously were not privy to, around, January, February when those negotiations were going on with the sale to another company. So looking back now and understanding that that is what was happening, we, we, we have a better, more clarity on why it is that the pressures that we were placing for the wages to go up from $7 an hour closer to what the industry was offering, above eight, $9 an hour, didn't materialize. Well they were in the process of transitioning to the new company. Fortunately, another company in Belmopan started to hire our people here. And now we have three buses that leave to Belmopan to that company that employed our people. We are again in consultations with some of the same people who helped us to bring Ready Call here. We have the facilities here, and we certainly, would welcome another, provider for another company, to come to Dangriga."
