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Published:Friday | July 9, 2010 | 12:00 AM
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Yulit Gordon is the lone rose among the gents (from left) Winston Harrison, David Hall and Brian Pengelley. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Digicel boss Mark Linehan (second right) sharing some camera time with hard-working execs (from left) Jackie Burrell-Clarke, Jason Corrigan, Trisha K. Thompson and Lesline Chisholm. - Winston Sill/ Freelance Photographer
Camar Williams, senior business account manager, drops legs with Desrine McFarlane, 3M's human resources and customer service manager.
Zakiya Lofters, business account manager at Digicel, with Sharon Gibbs, general manager of Singer Jamaica and Simone Mahabeer, Singer's products manager. - Contributed photos
Stephen McHugh, Digicel business accounts manager, jokes with Dr Patricia Holness, CEO of the Registrar General's Department.
Suzanne Palomino, Digicel's head of sales (East) lymes with Donovan Perkins, president of PanCaribbean.
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The promise was for a great time, and that's what guests got at Digicel's Business Client Appreciation event at Devon House last Wednesday.

The toughest choice each guest had to make at first was whether to try the sushi or the manish water. Most ended up doing both, before heading to the sumptuous buffet. Digicel Jamaica's CEO Mark Linehan, said the evening was about celebrating Jamaican culture, and as Jamaicans have come to expect from 'Digi' over the years, the promise was kept.

Setting the tone

Dancers set the tone with their journey through the eras of Jamaican music, before the fire breathers from Negril raised the temperature a few degrees with their act. Their departure led to the musical explosion that was also promised.

First up was the 2008 Digicel Rising Stars winner Cameal Davis. She dedicated Stay With You to the mobile company, before enticing a few guests of the amphitheatre section out of their seats with I Wanna Dance With Somebody. Another Rising Stars alumni Romain Virgo, delivered a few tracks from his newly released self-titled album, including Be Careful and the popular Can't Sleep. The consistent Karen Smith then jazzed things up with a genre-mixing array of songs.

But there was still one musical guest to come, and the minute Digicel's head of marketing Donovan White started to introduce his hits, the mystery was over. Freddie McGregor stepped forward to keep the flames going with his catalogue of hits and, in his inevitable encore, wooed the women with So I Will Wait For You and Just Don't Wanna Be Lonely. It was left for DJ Collin Hinds to bring it home on the turntables.

Guests included Dennis Chung, Chesna Haber, Trudy Deans, Keith Hinds, Daryl Vaz, Nasma Chin, Donovan Perkins, Yulit Gordon, Milton Walker, Collin Virgo, François St Juste, Becky and Paul Stockhausen, Leighton Davis, Denise Williams, Patrice McHugh, Chris and Kerri-Anne Reckord, Rajiv Bakshi and Dorothea Gordon-Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick.