On Thurs­day, the eve of the Lon­don 2012 Olympics Open­ing Cer­e­mo­ny, the British High Com­mis­sion has or­gan­ised a lam­plit fun run from George Cabral Street to Fort George, St James cul­mi­nat­ing in a sen­sa­tion­al fire­works dis­play. The eyes of the world will be on Lon­don for the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny and the British High Com­mis­sion in Port-of-Spain is hop­ing to gen­er­ate its own ver­sion of the spec­tac­u­lar on Thurs­day evening.

Be­gin­ning at 6.45 pm, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 75 par­tic­i­pants, in­clud­ing mem­bers of the diplo­mat­ic com­mu­ni­ty; fans of the High Com­mis­sion "Uk­inTT" Face­book page; TTOC & TTPC; sports clubs; T&T per­son­al­i­ties; and In­ter­na­tion­al In­spi­ra­tion young lead­ers in­clud­ing Olympic Torch­bear­er Shaquille Roberts, will take on the gru­elling 3km route, light­ing their way with so­lar lanterns and LED torch­es.

This "glow­ing pro­ces­sion" should be vis­i­ble to the whole of Port-of-Spain as it makes its way to the sum­mit of Fort George. Up­on reach­ing Fort George, an in­vit­ed crowd will wel­come the run­ners with High Com­mis­sion­er Arthur Snell lead­ing the con­grat­u­la­tions.

To mark their achieve­ment, and to sig­nal the be­gin­ning of more than a month of Olympic and Par­a­lympic com­pe­ti­tion in Lon­don, a fire­works dis­play will light up the skies of Port-of-Spain.

Ash­mead Ghany, of Fire­pow­er Com­pa­ny, has put to­geth­er a dis­play in­spired by the UK and the com­pe­ti­tion and has planned some­thing "ex­tra spe­cial" to treat those at the his­toric mon­u­ment. The fire­works should be vis­i­ble from any­where in Port-of-Spain and to res­i­dents in Diego Mar­tin and West­moor­ings, and will be­gin at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 7.30 pm.

The High Com­mis­sion thanks par­tic­i­pat­ing spon­sors Co­ca Co­la, bmo­bile, bpTT and Fire­pow­er Com­pa­ny, who are con­tribut­ing to the event, which will be led by two Min­is on dis­play from Ox­ford Mo­tors. The High Com­mis­sion al­so thanks Dee­Tee In­ter­na­tion­al, a UK com­pa­ny, which has pro­vid­ed LED so­lar lanterns to light the way for the in­tre­pid run­ners.