The Queen's Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain will be overflowing with children when the Port-of-Spain & Environs Education District hosts the 10th annual Walk Against Crime–Walk For Sport tomorrow.
Some 8,000 children from 80 primary schools and ten secondary schools and colleges will come together at the special anti-crime march around the Savannah.
Blue Waters and Pepsi are the lead sponsors for this year's edition of the Port-of-Spain and Environs Walk Against Crime. Blink Vigilance, Crimestopper T&T, BPTT and the Ministry of Sport are the other sponsors.
The walk will commence at The Paddock, Queen's Park Savannah, from 9.30 am tomorrow morning.
Central Port-of-Spain schools will lead off the walk headed by School Supervisors III Taliba Ayodike, Minister of Sport Anil Roberts, Garland Samuel and Malika Morre of Blink Vigilance.
National heroes who have been at the Walk since its inception have been invited for the tenth anniversary celebration. These include former Miss World Giselle La Ronde-West, cricket legend Brian Charles Lara, who has taken part in the event since 2003, Olympians Roger Daniel and Michelle-Lee Ahye.
Chief of Defence Force Staff Brigadier Kenrick Maharaj and Mayor of Port-of-Spain Louis Lee Sing and Olympic cyclist Njisane Phillip are expected to be in attendance.
Calypso monarch Eric "Pink Panther" Taylor and former national calypso monarch Kurt Allen. Valentino Singh, sports editor of the T&T Guardian, and hockey standout Stacey Siu Butt will also join the walk.
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