A mas­sive mo­tor­cade is planned for To­ba­go to ho­n­our our Olympic ath­letes to­mor­row. Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar heads a list of dig­ni­taries who will take part in the mo­tor­cade from Mar­ket Square, Scar­bor­ough, at 9.30 am. The mo­tor­cade pass­es through sev­er­al vil­lages in To­ba­go.

Among the ath­letes who will be cel­e­brat­ed are Keshorn Wal­cott, who won the gold medal in the men's javelin com­pe­ti­tion, and To­ba­go-born Lalonde Gor­don, who won bronze in both the men's 400 me­tre fi­nal and 4x400 me­tre re­lay event. Be­fore the start of the mo­tor­cade, To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Orville Lon­don will re­ceive the ath­letes and the Prime Min­is­ter.

Sev­er­al Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters, in­clud­ing Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Jack Warn­er, will be in at­ten­dance. Since win­ning the gold medal on Au­gust 11, Wal­cott has been treat­ed to a hero's wel­come on his re­turn home last Mon­day. He was tak­en by mo­tor­cade from Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to his home­town, To­co. On Thurs­day, he was in an­oth­er mo­tor­cade from Port-of-Spain to Diego Mar­tin and Care­nage, where he hand­ed out ham­pers to per­sons af­fect­ed by last week­end's floods in west Trinidad.

An­oth­er mo­tor­cade is planned for Tues­day which will take the ath­letes to Pe­nal, Siparia, and Point Fortin. On Wednes­day, the mo­tor­cade pass­es through San Fer­nan­do, Cou­va, and Ch­agua­nas. On Thurs­day, they go to Princes Town and Ma­yaro.

On Fri­day, the mo­tor­cade leaves Port-of-Spain and goes through Laven­tille, the Croisee in San Juan, end­ing at Con­stan­tine Park, Ma­coya. These events are be­ing or­gan­ised by the Min­istry of Sport and the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.