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Schreiber also discussed how he plans to positively build relations with the BTL staff. Last month, employees at the company's St. Thomas Street branch staged a walk out. The employees, who as members of the Belize Communications Workers Union, were dissatisfied with the company's lack of communication. The walkout was also prompted by an alleged standstill in the negotiations of a collective bargaining agreement, which determines the employees' salaries and benefits. Here's the update Schreiber gave us on that situation...

Rochus Schreiber - CEO, BTL
"I'm very pleased to announce these matters have been resolved since then and we continue to meet with the workers union on a weekly basis, the requirements and questions which were posed prior to the walkout have been addressed and we are working towards signing a collective bargaining agreement so it's an ongoing process, it's very constructive, productive and friendly, open communication that we have between the management and the union."

Nestor Vasquez - Chairman of the Board, BTL
"Maybe you should mention that you call me that very afternoon when it was happening and you said that you were in Punta Gorda working along with the president of the union with other BTL matters down there. I'm just trying to show you the relationship that presently exists between the president of the union and the new CEO. They were down their doing the work of BTL at the time, it's good for them to know that."

Rochus Schreiber
"Thank you very much, that's correct so I was - we were doing an activation event a launch of one of our sites, new antennas in Punta Gorda and actually I was on the site in Punta Gorda working alongside with the president of the union at that very same day so the communication and the matters were resolved as we were going."