St. GEORGE’S, Grenada(March 24th, 2016) –The excitement is steadily building in the Spice Isle, as the crème de la crème of junior track and field descends on Grenada for the highly anticipated 2016 Flow CARIFTA Games this weekend.
Already, teams from Anguilla, Antigua,the Cayman Islands,Guyana, St. Lucia, Suriname, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the US Virgin Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago have arrived in St. George’s to compete in the 45th edition of the Caribbean’s premier athletics meet.
“We know that a lot is expected of us, and as we showcase our Caribbean youth, we want to provide them with an experience that will encourage them to continue in sport. My heart is filled with joy to see that we have reached this point,” said Veda Bruno-Victor, Chairperson of the Local Organising Committee.
Flow, the region’s leading telecommunications provider, has signed a three-year partnership with the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) to be the exclusive broadcast partner and title sponsor of the CARIFTA Games.
It means that for the first time in the history of the CARIFTA Games, the event will be broadcast live in High Definition (HD) across the entire Caribbean.
“I am also very grateful that Flow has become our title sponsor for the 2016 CARIFTA Games and for the following two Games to come. We want our young athletes to be seen and remembered, because if they are not in Rio, they will definitely be in Japan (2020 Olympic Games). We want our people to say ‘I remember that boy or girl’ and it is with great expectation that we look forward to the coming of the CARIFTA Games,” added Bruno-Victor.
Flow, which is also the region’s exclusive broadcast partner for the upcoming Rio 2016 Olympic Games, has contracted an international production team that will capture, package and present more than twenty hours of live coverage from the River Road venue on the Flow Sports Channel (Channel 190 in Barbados).
“This is a triumphant moment for Caribbean athletics and we very proud to be the exclusive broadcast partner and title sponsor of the 2016 Flow CARIFTA Games,” said Denise Williams, Senior Vice President of Communications, Cable & Wireless Communications.
“Since its launch last year, Flow Sports has already become one of the Caribbean’s leading sports networks and our partnership with the CARIFTA Games builds upon Flow’s other initiatives across the region. In addition to lending financial support, we are also very excited that our partnership with NACAC will allow us the opportunity to broadcast the Games across multiple platforms including our very own Flow Sports.”
The 2016 Flow CARIFTA Games will inaugurate Grenada’s new National Stadium which was recently redeveloped following the passing of Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
More than 650 athletes and officials will attend the Games from countries including Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Bonaire, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Maarteen, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands.
I cant understand how is it that Flow and its predecessors, C&W and Lime continue charging their customers for a rental line entering their homes , the local calls should be part of that rental line. Could you imagine that some local calls are more costly than some overseas calls? I can remember that at one time C&W was going to charge the customers of Barbados for their local calls, Bajans kicked against it, if not, there would be a big strike action on the island. Bajans are still enjoying their free local calls. Now, what the company cant get from the Bajan people, they are milking the blood from we Dominicans at what ever cost.
A person is acquiring a loan to build their homes after a certain amount of time you would expect to finish paying that loan but one renting a line from Lime, that loan will never finish paying. I want Lime to incorporate the local calls into the local lines, making it easier for us.
Nice plug for Flow (=same Cable & Wireless really in a different wrapper). Who from Dominica will compete in which disciplines? It would be nice to know that.
If your business name is FLOW, then live up to it. Let the service flow properly. It should not be substandard.
Poor Dominica in this respect. It is too bad Dominica does not have telephone providers’ competition. It is too small for that I suppose. Therefore, it is monopolized by one telephone provider and they have to take what they are able to get. This should not be. It is cheating customers of proper service and of their payment to you. There is nothing exciting about that. They should receive a credit for lack of proper service.
Leading telecommunications provider? This may be due to purchasing other enterprises. However, for sometime I heard that the phone service in Dominica is extremely poor since you took over the telephone service. How disappointing.
I had a taste of it today, Saturday when I tried to telephone a few relatives and friends to wish them a Blessed Easter. We could hardly hear each other. I had to hang up and will try the following day. Hopefully the reception will be better.
I also telephoned my telephone Provider to check my line. I know it is not my line for I spoke to someone else in another island and the reception was clear. To my knowledge the Provider in that island is not FLOW.
Customers pay an exorbitant sum of money for this service and expect excellent service. Service + Money and vice versa. If they fail to pay their bill, you will not hesitate to disconnect them. Therefore, please ensure that you provide them with satisfactory service.
Does anyone know if Luan Gabriel still compete in track?
Dominica won a silver in jarvylin. Keon burton of concord
Javelin, please, the word is javelin. Thank you.
Good question. After DOC used her in London to justify their extravagant trip and late President Liverpool & his wife’s visit she had served her purpose and was discarded like a squeezed lime.