High­light­ing the con­tin­u­ous sport­ing suc­cess of To­bag­o­ni­ans, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) held its awards cer­e­mo­ny themed 'Ex­cel­lence: A Jour­ney, Not A Des­ti­na­tion' at the Atri­um of the Gulf City Mall, Low­lands on Sun­day.

Many from the sport­ing com­mu­ni­ty gath­ered at the cer­e­mo­ny to ho­n­our 19 sport­ing cat­e­gories in­clud­ing the Sport­ing Com­mu­ni­ty of the Year and the Phys­i­cal­ly Chal­lenged Ath­lete of the Year awards which were both proud­ly spon­sored by the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion.

On hand to make the pre­sen­ta­tion and show her heart­felt grat­i­tude was Dig­i­cel's Coun­try man­ag­er for To­ba­go, Hazel Dou­glas, who com­ment­ed, "The Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion is al­ways pleased to be as­so­ci­at­ed with sport on the is­land and to re­ward and recog­nise out­stand­ing per­for­mances in the com­mu­ni­ty."

The event ad­mired the is­land's sports­men and women who con­tribute to the na­tion's sport­ing suc­cess with their out­stand­ing per­for­mances in their var­i­ous are­nas. Akeem Stew­art who broke a world record in Mex­i­co last year when he won the gold medal in the men's shot put, was pre­sent­ed with the ParaAth­lete award.

The Sport­ing Com­mu­ni­ty award went to the Rox­bor­ough Po­lice Youth Club–a young, vi­brant club on the is­land, whose aim is to in­still dis­ci­pline in young peo­ple and to de­vel­op pos­i­tive and healthy lifestyles while aim­ing to re­duce crime and an­ti-so­cial be­hav­iour in the com­mu­ni­ty.

The club has col­lect­ed the Prime Min­is­ter's Award for Best Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vice, the Trinidad Ex­press Youth Award and the THA's Best Youth Or­gan­i­sa­tion, as well as the BPTT Youth in Ed­u­ca­tion award.