Three Digicel Winners are set to LIVE FREE for 2009!!
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Three Digicel Winners are set to LIVE FREE for 2009!!
Saturday February 7th, 2009: “Surprise, Surprise you are the winner of the Digicel Live Free Christmas promotion.” This is the announcement that brought shrieks of delight and expressions of glee from friends and family as the winners of the Digicel Live Free promotion were revealed.
Digicel customers Angelica Grandison Heather Hennecart, Edmund Mathurin and learned with great relief and excitement that at the end of the Digicel Christmas Live Free Promotion that each of them would be receiving an income for the entire year of 2009. Each winner will receive amounts of $ 5,000, $2000 and $ 1,500 respectively each month of this year.
The Digicel Posse with host Sergen Joseph made the trek to the Morne and the Eastern communities of Mon Repos and finally Dennery to make the special presentation to the winners who had no idea that their lives would be transformed. It was a festive atmosphere as the presentation team greeted each winner with champagne, a special T-shirt, other gifts, and their cheques for the first month’s payment. It was an event celebrated by the members of the community too, as hundreds came out to see who was the lucky winner from their part of the island.
Alternating between disbelief and elation, Angelica Grandison who purchased her new Digicel handset on Christmas Eve, acknowledged that her life will be irrevocably changed by the news. In a radio interview on RCI with the host and Digicel’s
The selection of the three winners was done randomly from a pool of Digicel customers who had paid their bill in full and on time, purchased a handset or got the flex card combinations to spell the word ‘FREE’. The final three winners were selected from ten random numbers chosen by Andrea St. Rose, an internal auditor of Andrea St. Rose and Associates Chartered Accountants.
According to Keigan Cox, Digicel’s Country Manager, “the LIVE FREE promotion came at a time when tough economic times have been forecast for St. Lucia and other islands in the Eastern Caribbean. This promotion has assured that three families in
These three St Lucians join eighteen others in the rest of the
Digicel wishes to thank all its customers who participated in its Live Free Promotion.
About Digicel
Since its launch in 2001, Digicel has become the fastest growing mobile telecommunications operator in the
By offering innovative mobile services and community support, Digicel has become a leading brand in the Caribbean and has placed the region at the cutting edge of mobile communications.
With the recent achievements of new licenses and acquisitions, Digicel now has operation in over 15 Caribbean countries, covering a total population of 14 million people. Incorporated in Bermuda and currently operating in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Curaçao, The Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Digicel looks forward to launching in Trinidad & Tobago and Haiti in the near future. The company also has licenses in St Martin, Guadeloupe, Martinique and St Barths.
Digicel Eastern Caribbean has been created in order to harness the strengths of the operations in the OECS and Barbados and to ensure the effective management of the rapid growth of the business. With this new structure, Digicel will continue to provide the first class cellular service to Barbados and the OECS for which it is now renowned across the Caribbean.
Digicel is headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, and has approximately 900 employees. The company is the lead sponsor of Caribbean sports teams including, the West Indies Cricket Team, Special Olympics teams across the Caribbean and is title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean Football Union Cup, which involves over 30 Caribbean countries and is an important qualifier towards the CONCACAF Gold Cup.