Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, Phillip Watts, on Wednes­day, pre­sent­ed cel­e­brat­ed javelin throw­er and Sports Am­bas­sador Keshorn Wal­cott with a Na­tion­al In­cen­tive and Re­ward val­ued at TT$500,000.

The pre­sen­ta­tion, held at the Min­istry’s Head Of­fice with Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary Pene­lope Brad­shaw-Niles in at­ten­dance, of­fi­cial­ly recog­nis­es Wal­cott’s out­stand­ing gold medal vic­to­ry at the 2025 World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo.

Dur­ing the cour­tesy vis­it, Min­is­ter Watts ap­plaud­ed Wal­cott for his con­sis­tent ex­cel­lence on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage, de­scrib­ing the ath­lete as "a sym­bol of pride and in­spi­ra­tion for the peo­ple and ath­letes of T&T".

​The vis­it al­so fa­cil­i­tat­ed high-lev­el dis­cus­sions re­gard­ing a po­ten­tial col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, the Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T (SporTT), and Wal­cott’s or­gan­i­sa­tion, JAV­COTT. These talks fol­low the launch of the 2026 Gold­en League of Ath­let­ics TT, an ini­tia­tive aimed at en­hanc­ing ath­lete de­vel­op­ment and ex­pand­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for emerg­ing tal­ent across the na­tion.

While dis­cus­sions re­main on­go­ing to fi­nalise the part­ner­ship, the move sig­nals a strate­gic ef­fort to in­te­grate Wal­cott’s ex­per­tise in­to the na­tion­al sport­ing frame­work.

​In ad­di­tion to the for­mal re­wards, Wal­cott lent his en­dorse­ment to the Min­istry’s “Keep Pumpin Up Yuh Fit­ness” cam­paign, which of­fi­cial­ly launched on Wednes­day at Evo­lu­tion Gym in Ch­agua­nas. The pro­gramme pro­motes ac­tive liv­ing through aer­o­bics, Zum­ba, and HI­IT ses­sions, and is be­ing im­ple­ment­ed across six lo­ca­tions na­tion­wide from Jan­u­ary 19 to Feb­ru­ary 12.

Min­is­ter Watts reaf­firmed the Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to ad­vanc­ing sport de­vel­op­ment while en­cour­ag­ing cit­i­zens to em­brace healthy lifestyles.

“Keshorn con­tin­ues to rep­re­sent the best of who we are as a na­tion, dis­ci­plined, re­silient, and ded­i­cat­ed to ex­cel­lence. His ex­am­ple con­tin­ues to mo­ti­vate our youth and our sport­ing com­mu­ni­ty,” said Min­is­ter Watts.