Sunday, October 24th 2010 – Miami, Florida: Digicel, the best value operator in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific, today joins the Shark Football Team in kicking off the Shark Community Football League in Nassau, Bahamas.
The League features 12 teams, predominantly made up of Haitian Nationals living in the Bahamas and gets underway today at the AC Field on Cowpen Road in Nassau, as the Marble Football Club takes on Dinamo Nassau Village at 3pm. Immediately following that match, at 5pm, the Yellow Elder Strikers will take on Etoile de Cowpen Road.
The competition runs for the next 13 weeks and culminates with a showdown at AC Field with the winner walking away with a Digicel Soccer Cup Trophy. Digicel Top Up will be available for purchase at each match so that those living in the Bahamas can keep in touch with loved ones at home in the Caribbean.
“At Digicel, we not only deliver best value to the Caribbean and Central American Diaspora through our top up and calling card services, but we are also committed to helping their communities,” expressed Bertrand Florville, Digicel International Sales Operations Manager. We have supported the development of football in the Caribbean for many years, by participating in a wide range of football initiatives, such as the Digicel Caribbean Cup, which is currently underway. The Shark Community League is another way we reach out to our customer base in Bahamas.”
Digicel offers an innovative range of products and services to Caribbean and Central American nationals living in the Diaspora. This range includes online top up – where customers can log on to any Digicel website and top up or send minutes to people back home and retail top up – where customers can go into any one of over 160,000 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.
