  We discuss a correspondence between certain contact pairs on the one hand,
and certain locally conformally symplectic forms on the other. In particular,
we characterize these structures through suspensions of contactomorphisms. If
the contact pair is endowed with a normal metric, then the corresponding lcs
form is locally conformally Kaehler, and, in fact, Vaisman. This leads to
classification results for normal metric contact pairs. In complex dimension
two we obtain a new proof of Belgun's classification of Vaisman manifolds under
the additional assumption that the Kodaira dimension is non-negative. We also
produce many examples of manifolds admitting locally conformally symplectic
structures but no locally conformally Kaehler ones.
