[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200"] URCA CEO, Hon Khaalis Rolle, OOCUR Chairman[/caption] The tenth annual conference of the Organisation of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OOCUR) was hosted in The Bahamas by the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA). Held last week over the three-day November 7th – 9th period, the conference attracted 73 participants from countries throughout the Caribbean, as well as the United States, the United Kingdom, Ghana and Nigeria. The theme for the tenth conference was “Utility Regulation in the Caribbean: A case for Harmonisation of Approaches to Regulation”. Conference papers covered a range of subject areas related to the…
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority’s (URCA) will host the Tenth Annual Conference of the Organisation of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OOCUR), from Wednesday November 7th to Friday November 9th at the Grand Lucayan Resort in Freeport, Grand Bahama. Under the theme Utility Regulation in the Caribbean: A Case of the Harmonization of Approaches to Regulation, the conference will be opened by the Hon. Khaalis Rolle, Minster of State for Investments. This occasion is a particularly special one for OOCUR, which in July of this year, marked its tenth anniversary. The regional non-profit organisation was established on July 26th in 2002,…
The deadline to respond to the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority's (URCA) consultative document on Cable Bahamas Limted's (CBL) application to increase the price of its basic cable television package is 5:00 p.m. (EST) Friday October 19, 2012. A copy of the document may be obtained via the following link, https://urcabahamas.bs/publications.php?cmd=view&id=144&pre=y, or by visiting the "Publications" section of URCA's website. Persons may send their responses via email to info@urcabahamas.bs, by fax to 242 393 0153, by traditional mail to P. O. Box N 4860 or by hand to URCA's offices on East Bay Street, in the UBS Annex Building. This…
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200"] URCA CEO and DPR with Island FM's Patty Roker[/caption] This past Sunday September 16th, URCA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mrs. Kathleen Smith and Director of Policy and Regulation (DPR) Mr. Stephen Bereaux were guests on Island FM’s “Parliament Street” with Patty Roker. Smith and Bereaux talked about URCA’s recently launched public consultation concerning Cable Bahamas Limited’s (CBL) application to raise the price of its SuperBasic [REVTV Prime] package; and also expanded the discussion to explain URCA’s role as the regulator of the electronic communications sector. Other URCA consultations and upcoming consumer protection intitatives were also discussed.…
