DIGICEL PARTICIPATES IN AMERICA’S BIGGEST CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL FOR THE FOURTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR
- Labor
Day Celebrations Kick Off with Final of the Digicel Caribbean Cup New York
Tuesday, August 17th 2010 – Brooklyn, New
York: Digicel, the best value mobile operator in the Caribbean,
Central America and the Pacific, today unveiled details of its Labor Day activities,
which include a host of activities at the West Indian American Day Parade (also
known as the Labor Day carnival) and the finals of the Digicel Caribbean Cup
New York.
A weekend of festivities is in store for the 3.5
million Caribbean people living in the Diaspora community in New York – not
least of which is the highly anticipated Digicel Caribbean Cup New York final
which takes place on Sunday September 5th. This year’s final will
take place at 3pm in the Jefferson High School Stadium at the corner of
Flatlands and Sheperd in Brooklyn, New York.
The festivities continue on Monday September 6th
with the West Indian American Day Parade which features two Digicel-sponsored
floats, ten Digicel booths and Digicel promotional staff who will be working
the crowds throughout the 26 blocks along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.
The West Indian American Day parade is the largest
Caribbean carnival and one of the ten largest festivals in the United States.
This year’s parade will host two Digicel sponsored
floats – one each for the Haitian and Jamaican Diaspora. Arguably two of the
most anticipated floats in the parade will be the Digicel-sponsored Irie
Jamboree float as well as the ever-popular Digicel Carimi Band float. Celebrity
musicians from each country will perform live on the floats throughout the
Parade.
The ten Digicel booths will be located over ten
blocks from Albany Avenue to Franklin Avenue on Eastern Parkway. Customers who
purchase Top Up or calling cards from the Digicel booths will walk away with a
free prize and automatically be entered into a draw to win some exciting
prizes.
Digicel’s General Manager for the Diaspora, Valérie
Estimé, said: “Digicel is proud to be participating in the West Indian America
Day Parade for the fourth consecutive year. This year promises to be even
bigger and better with two Digicel-sponsored floats as well as exciting
giveaways and fantastic prizes from our ten Digicel tents.
“At Digicel, we are committed to serving the needs
of our Caribbean customers living in the Diaspora through our wide range of
products and services such as Digicel Top Up – online and retail – and Digicel
Calling Cards, which make it so much easier for Caribbean customers to stay in
touch with friends and family back home. We hope that everyone will come out
and enjoy themselves and the Digicel activities over Labor Day weekend,” she continued.
Digicel currently offers a range of innovative
products and services to Caribbean and Central American nationals living in the
Diaspora, including online top up – where customers can log on to any Digicel
website and top up or send minutes to people back home; retail top up – where
customers can go into any one of over 100,000 retail stores in the UK, Canada,
the Caribbean and the USA and purchase Digicel top up or send Digicel minutes
to friends and relatives in their home country; and Digicel calling cards –
where customers calling friends and family in Haiti and Jamaica can call home
at competitive rates using minutes stored on the calling card.
ENDS
ABOUT DIGICEL
GROUP
After nine
years of operation, Digicel Group Limited has 10.8 million customers across its
32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific. The company is
renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.
Digicel is the
lead sponsor of Caribbean, Central American and Pacific sports teams, including
the Special Olympics teams throughout these regions. Digicel sponsors the West
Indies cricket team and is also the title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean
Championships and the Copa de Naciones Digicel. In the Pacific, Digicel is the
proud sponsor of several national rugby teams and also sponsors the Vanuatu
cricket team.
Digicel also
runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up
Digicel Foundations in Jamaica, Haiti and Papua New Guinea which focus on
educational, cultural and social development programmes.
In 2004,
Digicel developed Digicel Rising Stars – an annual talent show to support
aspiring young music artists in the Caribbean. The show has spanned the Eastern
Caribbean, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago ranking as one of the
top-rated shows.
It is
incorporated in Bermuda and its markets comprise: Anguilla, Antigua &
Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the
Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada,
Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Nauru, Panama, Papua
New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the
Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos and
Vanuatu. Digicel also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barts in the Caribbean.
Visit www.digicelgroup.com for more
information.
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August 17th 2010 - - Labor Day Celebrations Kick Off with Final of the Digicel Caribbean Cup New York- Labor
Day Celebrations Kick Off with Final of the Digicel Caribbean Cup New York
Tuesday, August 17th 2010 – Brooklyn, New
York: Digicel, the best value mobile operator in the Caribbean,
Central America and the Pacific, today unveiled details of its Labor Day activities,
which include a host of activities at the West Indian American Day Parade (also
known as the Labor Day carnival) and the finals of the Digicel Caribbean Cup
New York.
A weekend of festivities is in store for the 3.5
million Caribbean people living in the Diaspora community in New York – not
least of which is the highly anticipated Digicel Caribbean Cup New York final
which takes place on Sunday September 5th. This year’s final will
take place at 3pm in the Jefferson High School Stadium at the corner of
Flatlands and Sheperd in Brooklyn, New York.
The festivities continue on Monday September 6th
with the West Indian American Day Parade which features two Digicel-sponsored
floats, ten Digicel booths and Digicel promotional staff who will be working
the crowds throughout the 26 blocks along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.
The West Indian American Day parade is the largest
Caribbean carnival and one of the ten largest festivals in the United States.
This year’s parade will host two Digicel sponsored
floats – one each for the Haitian and Jamaican Diaspora. Arguably two of the
most anticipated floats in the parade will be the Digicel-sponsored Irie
Jamboree float as well as the ever-popular Digicel Carimi Band float. Celebrity
musicians from each country will perform live on the floats throughout the
Parade.
The ten Digicel booths will be located over ten
blocks from Albany Avenue to Franklin Avenue on Eastern Parkway. Customers who
purchase Top Up or calling cards from the Digicel booths will walk away with a
free prize and automatically be entered into a draw to win some exciting
prizes.
Digicel’s General Manager for the Diaspora, Valérie
Estimé, said: “Digicel is proud to be participating in the West Indian America
Day Parade for the fourth consecutive year. This year promises to be even
bigger and better with two Digicel-sponsored floats as well as exciting
giveaways and fantastic prizes from our ten Digicel tents.
“At Digicel, we are committed to serving the needs
of our Caribbean customers living in the Diaspora through our wide range of
products and services such as Digicel Top Up – online and retail – and Digicel
Calling Cards, which make it so much easier for Caribbean customers to stay in
touch with friends and family back home. We hope that everyone will come out
and enjoy themselves and the Digicel activities over Labor Day weekend,” she continued.
Digicel currently offers a range of innovative
products and services to Caribbean and Central American nationals living in the
Diaspora, including online top up – where customers can log on to any Digicel
website and top up or send minutes to people back home; retail top up – where
customers can go into any one of over 100,000 retail stores in the UK, Canada,
the Caribbean and the USA and purchase Digicel top up or send Digicel minutes
to friends and relatives in their home country; and Digicel calling cards –
where customers calling friends and family in Haiti and Jamaica can call home
at competitive rates using minutes stored on the calling card.
ENDS
ABOUT DIGICEL
GROUP
After nine
years of operation, Digicel Group Limited has 10.8 million customers across its
32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific. The company is
renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.
Digicel is the
lead sponsor of Caribbean, Central American and Pacific sports teams, including
the Special Olympics teams throughout these regions. Digicel sponsors the West
Indies cricket team and is also the title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean
Championships and the Copa de Naciones Digicel. In the Pacific, Digicel is the
proud sponsor of several national rugby teams and also sponsors the Vanuatu
cricket team.
Digicel also
runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up
Digicel Foundations in Jamaica, Haiti and Papua New Guinea which focus on
educational, cultural and social development programmes.
In 2004,
Digicel developed Digicel Rising Stars – an annual talent show to support
aspiring young music artists in the Caribbean. The show has spanned the Eastern
Caribbean, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago ranking as one of the
top-rated shows.
It is
incorporated in Bermuda and its markets comprise: Anguilla, Antigua &
Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the
Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada,
Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Nauru, Panama, Papua
New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the
Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos and
Vanuatu. Digicel also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barts in the Caribbean.
Visit www.digicelgroup.com for more
information.