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Sunday, July 6, 2025

8,000 school children to walk Against Crime & Walk for Sport

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The Queen's Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain will be over­flow­ing with chil­dren when the Port-of-Spain & En­vi­rons Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­trict hosts the 13th edi­tion of its Walk Against Crime –Walk For Sport to­mor­row from 9:00 am. In what is ex­pect­ed to be the biggest turn-out in the his­to­ry of the An­ti-Crime Walk, The Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion- An­tho­ny Gar­cia will lead the walk.

How­ev­er, the walk will be mak­ing his­to­ry as three Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters are ex­pect­ed to be in at­ten­dence. Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs- Dar­ryl Smith has con­firmed his pres­ence, while the Min­is­ters of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty and Trans­port, Ed­mund Dil­lon and Fitzger­ald Hinds are ex­pect­ed.

Cleopa­tra Borel, the Sports­woman of the Year 2016, is ex­pect­ed to give her sup­port along with Roger Daniel, who has nev­er missed a sin­gle walk. Pres­i­dent of the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee, Bri­an Lewis will al­so grace the event.

School Su­per­vi­sor Ol­son Oliv­er will lead the charge for the Dis­trict of Port of Spain, while all oth­er Su­per­vi­sors will be walk­ing to show their sup­port.

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 which will be led for the first time by Mar­aval Ro­man Catholic School which has been prepar­ing for this event.

Blue Wa­ters, Pep­si, the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Sport and the Sports Com­pa­ny of T&T are the event spon­sors.The walk will com­mence at The Pad­dock, Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, from 9.30am on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Na­tion­al he­roes who have been at the Walk since its in­cep­tion have been in­vit­ed again. Among them are - for­mer Miss World Giselle La Ronde-West and crick­et leg­end Bri­an Charles Lara.

Chief of De­fence Force Staff Brigadier Rod­ney Smart are ex­pect­ed to be in at­ten­dance.

For­mer ca­lyp­so monarch Er­ic "Pink Pan­ther" Tay­lor and for­mer na­tion­al ca­lyp­so monarch Kurt Allen and Guardian Sports ed­i­tor Valenti­no Singh, and for­mer hock­ey stand-out Stacey Siu Butt are al­so in­vit­ed.


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