The fight against cer­vi­cal can­cer con­tin­ued on Sat­ur­day with the Dyette’s Feel The Teal 5k Walk and Run Road Race which took place around the Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain.

With an in­creas­ing rate of in­fec­tion across the na­tion, the event sought to re­in­force the im­por­tance of get­ting test­ed for cer­vi­cal can­cer. The event, in its fourth edi­tion, at­tract­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 390 par­tic­i­pants from dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories, who ig­nored the prizes at stake, in favour of spread­ing the mes­sage.

Guswil George dom­i­nat­ed the men’s cat­e­go­ry to storm home with the win, cross­ing the fin­ish line af­ter just 17 min­utes and 55 sec­onds. He was fol­lowed in­to sec­ond po­si­tion by Kay­den Siewrat­tan who broke the rib­bon at the fin­ish in 18 min­utes and 59 sec­onds, while Josh Fuller was third in 19 min­utes and 18 sec­onds.

Among the women, it was Kel­ly Ram­per­sad to walk away with the sil­ver­ware for first place af­ter 24 min­utes and 30 sec­onds. Ram­per­sad was the lone fe­male par­tic­i­pant to fin­ish the race.

Af­ter the race, or­gan­is­er Paige Ribeiro-Agard race di­rec­tor and co-founder said: “Feel the Teal 5K is more than just a race. It was in­tend­ed to bring per­sons to­geth­er to raise aware­ness about cer­vi­cal can­cer and how it can be pre­vent­ed. The event brought fam­i­lies to­geth­er (dogs in­clud­ed) from all over Trinidad for one com­mon cause.”

“Let’s erad­i­cate cer­vi­cal can­cer! One step at a time… From the race to the sur­vivor’s sto­ry to the give­aways, while ed­u­cat­ing and of course some en­ter­tain­ment by Er­phaan Alves, the day was in­deed a suc­cess. I think every­one present def­i­nite­ly Felt the Teal! We at AS­DF stay com­mit­ted to the ed­u­ca­tion, pre­ven­tion & erad­i­ca­tion of cer­vi­cal can­cer.”

Re­sults

Male: 1 Guswil George 17.55, 2 Kay­den Siewrat­tan 18.59, 3 Josh Fuller 19.18

Fe­male: 1 Kel­ly Ram­per­sad 24.30

12 & Under

Male: 1 Maceo Lind­say 25.00

Female: 1 Jette Lue Choy 51.36

13-17 years:

Male: 1 Asheesh Singh 27.21

Female: 1 Kim­ber­ly Bird 32.12

60+

Male: 1 Afza Mo­hammed 26.06

Female: 1 Su­san­nah Joe­field 30.46