TelEm Group jubilees who together celebrated 20, 30, and 35 years of service with the company, along with three retiring colleagues during a fun event at IZI Restaurant on Friday.
POND ISLAND–TelEm Group executives, managers and loved ones paid “fitting tributes” to veteran company workers during a fun jubilee party at IZI Restaurant in Cole Bay on Friday.
The 18 celebrants clocked a combined 470 years of service in various divisions of the TelEm Group company spanning 20, 30 and 35 years. Three of the celebrants were also toasted as seniors who are leaving or have already left TelEm Group this year to go on pension.
The pensioning trio are Network Engineer Carlos Monsanto, Senior Financial Administrator Xionara Vicario and Media Designer Steve Allen. All three were greeted with video messages from colleagues and managers along with tokens of appreciation from management on behalf of the company to which they have dedicated their working lives.
TelEm Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kendall Dupersoy urged the retirees to make good on their retirement years by doing all the things they can now find time to do at a very important stage of their lives. “Travel, take up a new hobby, enjoy life,” he advised.
Dupersoy spoke of how young and energetic the retires still look and praised the manner in which they had taken care of themselves while in company service. He also praised the most senior veteran worker of the night, Information Communications Technology (ICT) Technician Level II Lucien Hodge, for his many years of working with the company.
The celebrants who marked 35, 30 and 20 years of service to TelEm Group included: for 35 years of service Lucien Hodge and Heinrich Susanna; for 30 years of service Amalika Bute, Franklin Rogers, Hilaria Clovis-Sutton, Jose Arrindell, Elroy Hughes, Sherman Serastis, Ludson Evers and Monique Hodge-Wilson; and for 20 years Helma Etnel, Derrick Canhigh, Cheryl Rismay, Veronica Browne, Shadira Lont-Richardson, Estalita Gumbs, Mabel van Stralen and Fermin Marlin.
All celebrants received a video message from one member of staff with whom they have been closely associated along the years, together with some written messages from other colleagues. All were presented with a jubilee gift from management and received kinds words for their various contributions to TelEm Group from Dupersoy and from Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Eldert Louisa, who singled out a number of persons from the Technical Division for special mention.
For Dupersoy, the measure of the company’s strength is how it manages to keep its staff over the span of many years. He said that in adding up the number of years represented by those celebrating today he had counted more than 470 years of combined service – without including the years served by the three retirees.
“That is an amazing achievement for any company, and something as management we should be very proud of,” said Dupersoy.
Louisa took the calculation a step further, noting that the combined group would have clocked millions of hours of work in the company with more still to come. “TelEm is a good company with good dedicated workers, as you all are, and I personally want to thank you all for the part you are playing,” said Louisa.
The late afternoon was a success thanks to the preparations and work of Human Resources and Development team Joseline Urighre, Carmita Brooks and Isabel Santos. The three thanked those who sent messages of good wishes and took part in video messages for the celebrants. They also had a lot of fun toasting their own Human Resources and Development Manager Lont-Richardson, who was amongst those celebrating with 20 years under her belt.
The team’s impromptu “Photo-frame booth” was also a fun hit. Lont-Richardson, praised her team and thanked them for their part in making Friday’s Jubilee event a major success along with the friends, colleagues and family members who attended the event to give their enthusiastic support.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/90141-18-telem-veterans-clocked-a-combined-470-years-service
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