Big up ScotiaBank NCB Azan Digicel etc etc

[britisha]

Local firms rally to aid quake-hit Haiti

Alicia Roache Sunday Finance reporter [email protected]

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Despite living in a country besieged by a vicious recession, Jamaicans have rallied together to make donations of cash and kind to Caribbean neighbour Haiti, a country that was ravaged by a far more destructive force last week -- a 7.0 earthquake. The Haitian relief efforts have been going on in earnest following the earthquake that has so shaken the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, that days later rescue efforts are still being thwarted by the sheer magnitude of the devastation.

Companies across Jamaica have rallied around the cause and Sunday Finance sought to highlight some of the efforts.

Azan Supercentre

Azan's, one of the first local companies to organise relief efforts, is the hub of a wide and impressive network of corporate collaboration. Kamal Azan, who is organizing the relief effort for Azan's, said he has received assistance and input from organisations such as Tara Couriers, KFC, and Air Jamaica, providing transportation and logistics support; The Salvation Army, Food for the Poor, which handles collection of items; Carimed and T. Geddes Grant, providing medical supplies, Seprod, which is sending food, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), the Ministry of Health and the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association, which has volunteered 20 andnine medical doctors respectively to go to Haiti. "I think it's admirable that in a country where people are trying to get out we have people who are trying to get in," Azan said.

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[britisha]

Re: Big up ScotiaBank NCB Azan Digicel etc etc




Gwaan chru Digicel, hiff yuh cuddah give more free calls outtah Haiti tuh di poor people dat wuddah be even Irier..

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS company, Digicel, reported yesterday that its network in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti is now functioning well, with more and more customers connecting and able to make and receive calls, text messages, e-mail and BlackBerry Messenger messages.



"With coverage in the rest of the country good, Digicel is also ensuring that all of its two million plus customers in Haiti can stay in contact with friends and family by giving each and every Digicel customer US$5 of free call credit, totalling US$10 million," a company statement said.

Digicel, since deploying a team of technicians to Haiti following the earthquake last Tuesday, has been working to restore its network to full capacity.

[H_O]

Re: Big up ScotiaBank NCB Azan Digicel etc etc

seing as Port au Prince is levelled and how much percent of the population is homeless
my question is
a) where is digicel going to be sending there billing information too and (b) people can barely find food and water yet a pre paid phone card.
wouldnt $10 million dollars be better spent on food and supplies?
maybe they can eat there blackberry's

[RichD]

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to give the $10 million would mean spending actual cash form the company ..to give out $10 million in call credit doesn't really cost them anything. couple key strokes and the $5 credit is added to all the accounts.

[britisha]

Re: Big up ScotiaBank NCB Azan Digicel etc etc

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">seing as Port au Prince is levelled and how much percent of the population is homeless
my question is
a) where is digicel going to be sending there billing information too and (b) people can barely find food and water yet a pre paid phone card.
wouldnt $10 million dollars be better spent on food and supplies?
maybe they can eat there blackberry's </div></div>

**chukkle**


i thought about where the phone and all bills for that matter would be sent...but who cares?

I doubt there would be any &quot;pre-paid&quot; cards to buy...to initiate the free calls, all that SHOULD be required is turning aawn di phne an dial...

Methinks yuh shuddah ask where dem gwine get battery to chaawge di phones..

Mi still salute Digicel.

[RichD]

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yuh remember after the last hurricane in Jamaica how innovative the people were in finding ways to charge their phones? im sure somebody already have a generator set up for this purpose alone.

[H_O]

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how comes nobody ever invented a solar phonle you could cahrge the batteries by lying it in the sun to charge the batteries?

[RichD]

Re: Big up ScotiaBank NCB Azan Digicel etc etc

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">how comes nobody ever invented a solar phonle you could cahrge the batteries by lying it in the sun to charge the batteries? </div></div> yuh jus gi wey yuh million dollar idea

[RichD]

Re: Big up ScotiaBank NCB Azan Digicel etc etc

and dem quick yuh know:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/samsung_unveils_solar_powered_cell_phone

[H_O]

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i was just throwing my clozes on and heading to the patent office...shux...

[britisha]

Re: Big up ScotiaBank NCB Azan Digicel etc etc

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">how comes nobody ever invented a solar phonle you could cahrge the batteries by lying it in the sun to charge the batteries? </div></div> yuh jus gi wey yuh million dollar idea </div></div>

Yuh si, yuh still cyaan think logically HO...as fi di phone chaawging, aftah di hurrican when di powah did hout yaawd, mi figgit seh dem did seh a dem cyar dem use fi chaawge using some kanneckshan or di oddah.

[Amberal37]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Total bloody joke of an article!!!!

How much of that is ACTUALLY coming from the Jamaican government...ODPEM, Jamaica Medical Doctors Association, Air Jam-can ill afford - will the funds come from them donation some of the money collected - or will they take it in THEIR fees.</span>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Local firms rally to aid quake-hit Haiti

Alicia Roache Sunday Finance reporter [email protected]

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Despite living in a country besieged by a vicious recession, Jamaicans have rallied together to make donations of cash and kind to Caribbean neighbour Haiti, a country that was ravaged by a far more destructive force last week -- a 7.0 earthquake. The Haitian relief efforts have been going on in earnest following the earthquake that has so shaken the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, that days later rescue efforts are still being thwarted by the sheer magnitude of the devastation.

Companies across Jamaica have rallied around the cause and Sunday Finance sought to highlight some of the efforts.

Azan Supercentre

Azan's, one of the first local companies to organise relief efforts, is the hub of a wide and impressive network of corporate collaboration. Kamal Azan, who is organizing the relief effort for Azan's, said he has received assistance and input from organisations such as Tara Couriers, KFC, and Air Jamaica, providing transportation and logistics support; The Salvation Army, Food for the Poor, which handles collection of items; Carimed and T. Geddes Grant, providing medical supplies, Seprod, which is sending food, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), the Ministry of Health and the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association, which has volunteered 20 andnine medical doctors respectively to go to Haiti. &quot;I think it's admirable that in a country where people are trying to get out we have people who are trying to get in,&quot; Azan said.

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[evanovitch]

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i will reserve judgement cause mi well n know seh collecting is one ting...accounting fi weh supposedly collect n tunning it ovah is anodda...dem Jcans no easy...memba our own experiences wid Gilbert..if u do u own dat whe u wi do oddas especially wen some a dem did always look dung pon Haitians as not being human in di fuss place...

fi all we know light bill mite pay fuss