As part of its ‘Merry Moments’ promotion, LIME Anguilla is giving back to the community in various aspects of its products. One of the biggest areas of the promotion is an opportunity for five customers to win a number of different prizes each week.

The first winners to be announced were Elvis Fleming and Catherine Proctor whose separate prize was the Dr. Drake Beat Headset (from a line of high-quality headphones) valued at just under US$350; Ann Gumbs and Daphne Lake, separate winners of the Apple I-pod Nano Touch (from the thinnest line of i-pods ever made)valued at US$150; and Mary Steel Chewning who won the Google Nexus 7 Tablet (considered as grand prize) valued at just under US$700.

In keeping with the Christmas spirit of giving, Mary Steel Chewning said it was her privilege to pass on her gift to Nicola Carty. She stated that Ms Carty was travelling to England for special treatment for her daughter, and would be able to use the Google Nexus 7 Tablet to communicate with her family in Anguilla.

Meanwhile, in order to automatically enter the draw, the above customers were required to stay on a telephone call on Talk Excel for more than three minutes; and send more than three text messages. Landline and residential customers were required to pay their bills in full and on time.

The winners were chosen in the draw for the week of November 15-22.

The gift presentations will take place every Thursday until further notice.

THE VALLEY, ANGUILLA –1st December, 2012.Mr Darwin Hazel is the second winner of the “LIME Shop till You Drop Experience”. In a competition with Ms Fanny Stevens, in which they each had 90 seconds to fill a shopping cart at Ashley’s, Hazel was able to put EC$120 more grocery in his cart to claim the US$500 prize. Mr Hazel was, of course elated to emerge the winner.
Jade Reymond, Marketing Lead, LIME, was on hand at the Ashley’s said: “We will continue to spread our ‘Merry Moments’ around and helping our customers put a little more on their tables this Christmas. This experience is not only fun for our customers, but will bring great value to them this season.”
Meanwhile, the third “LIME Shop ‘Till You Drop”, took place at Lakes World on Friday afternoon at 5:30pm. The offer on smartphones mimicked the previous ones, offering customers a range of special prices for such devices. There were also great offers from the ‘Merry Moments’ promotion such as the Landline offer called Worldpak (1000 minutes for EC$30, to destinations such as USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, USVI and China), iPhone at half price, and many more. The randomly chosen winners will compete at a later date.
The finale will take place on December 17th at Best Buy Supermarket in Long Path, from 5:00pm until closing time. LIME is creating many Merry Moments for customers this Christmas. Customers can like the company’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/limeaxaand see all the happenings for the season.
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LIME Anguilla, in partnership with the Anguilla Tourist Board, is for the fourth year ensuring that children of the island are specially treated at Christmas. The telecommunications company donated EC$5,000 to the ATB on Tuesday, November 20, towards that end.
“As the Christmas season begins to gather full steam, we are very happy once more to partner with the Anguilla Tourist Board in bringing much cheer to the needy in the community,” LIME’s General Manager in Anguilla, Mark Romney, stated. “This is our fourth time being involved in such a very important community event that will bring much more joy to many unfortunate persons.

“This year we have even sought to increase our contribution, as best we could, given the economic climate, but we know that there are many more needy persons in the community, and we are trying to see if we can cover as many of them as possible.

“It gives me great pleasure to announce that we have made a cheque for EC$5,000 payable to the Anguilla Tourist Board. The ATB, in partnership with many of our local businesses, will be using this money towards the purchase of food hampers as well as little toy items that bring some joy to those needy families.”

Mr. Romney said the donation was part of LIME’s community outreach efforts. “We recognise that, as a corporate citizen, we have our social responsibility and we will always seek to provide much good cheer especially during Christmas time. Christmas is a very emotional time and it is really about giving,” he added.

The cheque was presented to Brenda Gumbs who accepted it on behalf of the Director of Tourism, Candis Niles.

LIME, the region’s best-value network, launched its Christmas campaign 15th November 2012), offering customers across the Caribbean many ‘Merry Moments’, complete with big savings and hundreds of weekly prizes for the season.

Prizes on offer include the powerful and portable Nexus 7 – the Google Tablet, the new credit-card-thin iPod Nano and the coveted Beats Solo HD headphone. Customers can also win a compact travel speaker set with the purchase of BlackBerry Smartphones, while every Samsung Galaxy Y comes with preloaded Apps valued at over US$150.

In a move that the company says will put more ‘value in the pockets’ of its customers, the full-service provider is giving its mobile, internet and landline customers loads of savings and many chances to win in its XL Value, Data Dubble Bubble, Broadband specials and Landline International bundle offers.

General Manager LIME Anguilla Mark Romney said, “Merry Moments is about spreading the joy of Christmas around and ensuring every customer experiences it.  We know we are giving great value by virtually putting money back into the pockets of our customers with these huge savings on their must-have telecoms services.”

The XL value mobile prepaid promotion offers a mix of free talk time – 27 minutes free after the first three minutes, 20 free texts after the first three and free talk time between 10pm and 6am after a top-up of only $10 each day. There are also huge savings with the Data Dubble Bubble which gives customers twice the amount of data they purchase for the same price.

Its postpaid mobile customers stand to get more savings than ever before with the ‘Merry Moments’ campaign. Every new postpaid customer will get 3GB of Data FREE for one month, 100 minutes every month for 1 year to call a special LIME mobile number, US$10 Gift Voucher to use when the next minimum purchase valued at US$50 is made and postpaid reward points amongst others. Existing customers who buy a new handset and sign a contract, buy a Talk, Text and Data (TTD) package or upgrade the existing one or renew their contract with will get some of the same benefits plus Free Sundays/Weekends on the TTD plan.

The broadband special gives new customers 50% off the first two months of service with any plan selected, while new and existing landline customers can add a World Pak bundle giving them a flat rate to call international destinations such as to anywhere in China, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, USA, Canada and UK landlines only.

Since October 15 LIME has been offering customers 100MB of data and 100 free text messages on alternate Thursdays and Sundays for prepaid and postpaid customers respectively. This will continue to the end of this month (November 2012), delivering to customers more ‘moments’ they can use to connect with family and friends leading up to the festive season.

LIME’s Marketing Officer, Jade Reymond said “we are holding nothing back from our customers this Christmas and it’s our way of saying thanks for the continued patronage”.

The company also announced that it will be continuing its presence in the communities it serves and will be making visits and donations to various community-based organisation and charities to spread the Merry Moments around.

As customary, LIME will sponsor the annual Christmas luncheon at the Miriam Gumbs Senior Citizens Home and will extend this good cheer this year to Tender Loving Care, Just Tender Care and the Rosewood Centre.  Mark Romney said “Christmas is about the little love that translates to BIG moments the tender things we hold so dear to our hearts are the BIG things that really matter – especially at Christmas.”

The Merry Moments Christmas campaign, which runs from November 15 to December 31, provides new and existing customers with many ways to win. Customers could win a Google Tab or a Beats Solo HD Headphone or an iPod Nano when they top-up or by making a call for 3/5 minutes (Talk XL). Customers who purchase any of our BlackBerrys or a Samsung Galaxy Y or signing-up for any post-paid service or upgrade any existing service could also win. Customers who sign-up for any LIME post-paid service or pay any post-paid bills on time and in full, are all automatically entered in to win one of the items on offer. People who want more information about the promotion can call customer care at (18008042994) or visit lime.com.

The Valley, Anguilla – 31st October 2012: LIME celebrated its 41st Anniversary of operations in Anguilla by providing one of its valued customers with the “Gift of a Lifetime.”

On Monday, 29th October, 2012, LIME presented Mr Clarence Lake of East End his prize of 40 years of FREE Mobile service.  Mr. Lake was pleasantly surprised at his workplace by LIME’s Marketing Officer Ms. Jade Reymond, and was certainly beaming with joy of the great news!  Whilst stunned for words, he remarked, “this feels so great and I’m happy to be with LIME – all the time with LIME.”

Last Christmas, LIME ran its first-ever Gift of A Lifetime promotion and 28 customers (including one employee) won 40 years of FREE Landline, Internet or Mobile service with one GRAND PRIZE winner receiving all 3 FREE!

LIME takes this opportunity to extend heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Clarence Lake and wishes to thank all their loyal customers for their patronage as well as the past and present employees for their sterling contribution over the 41 years.

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(Published without editing by The Anguillian newspaper.)

LIME Anguilla awarded Ms Cheryl Mussington a SAMSUNG GALAXY Tablet (Model 10.1) on Thursday 18th October for taking part in an Online Survey on LIME ANGUILLA Facebook page.

The survey gathers information on our customer service through our Facebook page. “Customer Service is very important to our company”, and in order to ensure we provide our customers with the best customer service, one of the initiatives we use is surverys of this kind. It allows our customers, after visiting our store, to share their experience with us thru this medium. In an effort to ensure all our customers receive the best customer service possible, the survey is always available.

We would like to thank our customers who participated. Visit our facbook page: facebook/limeaxa site, and listen out for more great opportunites to win!

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A new promotion, called “Merry Moments With Lime”, started on Monday, October 15.

In making the announcement on Tuesday, October 16, LIME Anguilla’s Marketing Officer, Jade Reymond, said: “It is a promotion being offered throughout the region, where LIME operates. The offering is for all of our customers.”

New customers are being offered an opportunity to sign up for an internet service with free installation and half the monthly cost for the first two months. The offer will last to the end of December.

Along with that promotion, LIME is offering new and existing customers a Lenova PC/Laptop or Netbook payable in instalments as low as EC$350 over a six-month period.A new Iphone is also available for as low as US$549.

Three young ladies are the lucky winners of a much-publicised summer promotion by LIME Anguilla called “It’s Your MEGA Moment.”

The winners were announced at a press conference called by the company’s Anguilla Branch. LIME’s Marketing Officer, Jade Reymond, said they were as follows:

The grand prize, a seven-day Royal Caribbean cruise for two persons valued at US$5,000, was won by Laura A. Ruan, who signed up for Internet service. Her trip will likely be in March during her vacation time. The second prize, a Home Entertainment Centre, valued at US$3,000, was won by Carren Ritchie by topping up her phone; and the third prize, one year free Internet service and an Apple Ipad, was won by Elidad Jacobs Baoz by texting “Sumfest”. She scored the highest number – 410 texts.

In order to enter the competition, customers were required to meet one of five obligations: top up their phones by more than EC$20; text “Sumfest” to 3100; pay their bill on time; sign up for a new service; and purchase a new phone.

The three winners expressed must excitement over their good fortune and were grateful to be customers of LIME Anguilla.

LIME’s Acting General Manager, Charmaine Sasso, made the presentations on behalf of Mark Romney who is off island.

A press release issued by LIME Anguilla stated that on Friday, September 28, the company held a special promotion which gave customers, who signed up for Internet, the opportunity to win a free Blackberry Jazz (Model #9320) phone.

The Blackberry smartphone is the latest model which includes an FM radio application as part of the media tools. It also carries special features such as a short key BBM on the side and a 3.15 megapixel camera with LED flash. The promotion entailed free installation and half of the monthly cost for the first two months of service for all new sign-ups.

The lucky winner was Mr. Marlon Lake of ABC Supplies.

The Valley, Anguilla – “LIME’s financial support of Anguilla’s 2012 Summer Festival was in excess of EC$100,000 and it was well worth every penny!” says Mr Mark Romney, General Manager of LIME Anguilla.

LIME’s contribution to this year’s summer festival included sponsorship of The August Monday A Class Boat Race, the UFO racing boat and repeat Road March and Band Clash champions Pantha Vibes International. Much to the delight of the company, lead vocalist Landvol ‘Pantha’ Hughes also captured the Soca Monarch title and vocalist Fedalia Shereena ‘Shea Shea’Richardsonsnared both the Female Calypso Competition as well as the Calypso Monarch Competition crowns.

Also proudly sponsored by LIME was Miss Anguilla Contestant, Morihinzi Richardson. Morihinzi represented the company beautifully in the Miss Anguilla Pageant where she placed first runner-up. The company also made contributions and donations in cash and kind to several troupes and groups involved in various ways in the Summer Festival activities.

The curtains came down on the Anguilla Summer Festival 2012 with yet another very successful LIME sponsored Leeward Islands Calypso Monarch Competition. LIME takes this opportunity to congratulate all the winners in the various competitions and pageants. We also wish to thank all the participants, without whom there would have been no competitions and the members and chairpersons of the organising committees for jobs well done.

The company has a long and proud history of support for Anguilla’s carnival and boat racing activities and continues to live up to its reputation of being one of the most generous sponsors on the island.

– Press Release

(Published without editing by The Anguillian newspaper.)