9 March, 2021, Port of Spain
: The #GirlsRunTT Challenge is a key feature of the Ministry’s recently restructured Pink Reign Campaign which seeks to encourage more women and girls to be physically active and increase their involvement and participation in sport. In recognition of International Women’s Day 2021 (#IWD2021), the Ministry of Sport and Community Development (MSCD) will enroll and sponsor 120 women and girls to participate in a number of virtual road races covering 70 miles between the months of March and August 2021.
The MSCD is working with BafaSports Limited on this #GirlsRunTT initiative which takes its pattern from the BafaSports’ Magnificent 70 mile Challenge. This Challenge takes participants on a virtual journey celebrating the seven historic buildings located around the Queen’s Park Savannah in Trinidad and Tobago. The virtual race is intended to challenge women of various fitness levels to participate in 5k, 10k, half marathon and other races to impro
Eastern loses an icon
Saturday 27 February 2021
THE EDITOR: Over two decades ago, we were engaged in a ceremonial “topping off” ceremony to signal the completion of the roof at the picturesque Eastern Credit Union’s La Joya facility in St Joseph.
Representing then prime minister ANR Robinson was the parliamentarian attached to the Prime Minister’s Office, Margaret Hector and on that afternoon we were looking forward anxiously to the commissioning event later in the year with the attendance of the prime minister and guest speaker Prof Rex Nettleford, a revered Caribbean intellectual based at the UWI campus in Jamaica.
Thursday 25 February 2021
Photos of the late long-distance Lynette Granny Luces are seen at her funeral, held on Thursday, at the Mt D Or Seventh Adventist Church, Champs Fleurs. - ROGER JACOB
LYNETTE Granny Luces was fondly remembered by her grandchildren and great-grandchildren during the funeral service of the beloved long-distance runner at the Mt D Or Seventh Adventist Church, on Thursday.
Luces, an avid long-distance TT runner, was 93. Luces, who suffered a stroke in October, died at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex on February 18.
Luces is popularly known for participating and completing long-distance races throughout TT and the world. Luces got involved in the sport in her mid-fifties, making her marathon debut in 1984. Luces received the Hummingbird Medal Gold in 2013.
Granny Luces was a Goliath: Family, friends remember veteran runner at funeral
Friday 26 February 2021
People gather to view photographs of the late long-distance runner Lynette ‘Granny’ Luces, at her funeral, on Thursday at the Mt D’Or Seventh Day Adventist Church. - ROGER JACOB
LYNETTE GRANNY Luces was remembered as the female Goliath and a legend by former colleague and friend Curtis Cox during the funeral of the beloved long-distance runner at the Mt D Or Seventh Adventist Church on Thursday.
Luces, an avid long-distance runner, was 93. She had a stroke in October, and died at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex on February 18.
Photos of the day: February 25, 2021
Thursday 25 February 2021
Sorrel growing at the Ministry of Agriculture s National Seed Bank, Chaguaramas facility. - Vidya Thurab
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The closed flower of the sorrel plant at the Ministry of Agriculture s National Seed Bank, Chaguaramas facility, where members of the public can go sorrel picking, Tucker Valley Road, Chaguaramas. - Vidya Thurab