A showdown is brewing between communications giants Digicel and LIME as the latter contests Digicel’s title sponsorship of the newly renamed Digicel Halcyon Steel Orchestra.

An August timeline has been set for a report to be handed in by a committee comprising representatives of telecommunications company, LIME, and unions representing its employees across the Caribbean, including the Antigua & Barbuda Workers Union (ABWU).

Digicel Antigua & Barbuda has become the first telecoms company operating here to begin competing directly with LIME for regional and international calls

Following a Carnival Development Committee (CDC) representative’s reaffirmation that the Panorama decision will stand, LIME Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra

Leon “Kuma” Rodney, the first to sound the alarm decrying last year’s Panorama scoring debacle, is now the first to call for a truce between the embattled factions as his prediction of impending lawsuits looms near.

In the ongoing Panorama saga, LIME Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra has put the Carnival Development Committee (CDC) and Antigua & Barbuda Pan Association (ABPA)

Responding to criticism of foot-dragging on the investigation into the discovery of a 40-foot container containing stolen copper and wire, the police have said the investigation is still on-going.

Two local businessmen wanted for questioning over the recent bust of an Asian father and son with four tonnes of stolen copper wire and air conditioning parts have reportedly agreed to turn themselves over to police today.

The general manager of telecommunications company LIME Davidson Charles said the company won’t be daunted by increased competition when its exclusive license to market international direct dialling (IDD) telephone calls runs out in July.

The two top debaters in this year’s LIME Interschool Debate series will go head to head tonight when they compete in the Prime Minister’s Debating and Public Speaking Competition.