The Queen's Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain will be overflowing with children when the Port-of-Spain & Environs Education District hosts its 12th Annual Walk Against Crime–Walk For Sport today.
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 is the lead sponsors for this year's edition, together with support from Atlantic LNG, BPTT, the Ministry of Sport, RBC, Massy Foundation and Brian Charles Lara.
The walk will commence at The Paddock, Queen's Park Savannah, from 9.30 am. The Walk will conclude at the Hasely Crawfoird Stadium where a programme of sporting activities will take centre stage.
Central Port-of-Spain schools will lead off the walk, headed by School Supervisors III Elma Campbell, Minister of Sport, Brent Sancho and First Citizens Foundation Sportswoman of The Year, Cleopatra Borel. National heroes who have been at the Walk since its inception have been invited for the 12th anniversary celebration. These include former Miss World Giselle La Ronde-West and Olympian Roger Daniel.
Chief of Defence Force Staff Brigadier Kenrick Maharaj and Mayor of Port-of-Spain Raymond Tim-Kee and Olympic cyclist Njisane Phillip are expected to be in attendance.
Calypso monarch Roderick "Chucky" Gordon 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.
However, on arrival at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, many sporting diciplines will take to the field, including football for Primary and Secondary schools Under-13 players. There will also be a Relay Festival which will be strictly for the primary schools of Port- of-Spain and Environs. Action in the sporting disciplines is expected to begin at 11 am, with the relays being the climax to the day with a start time of 1.20 pm.