In front of one of the largest crowds in the his­to­ry of the Mi­lo Games, in­au­gur­al win­ners from 1987, Di­a­mond Vale Gov­ern­ment School, showed their new prin­ci­pal Lor­raine Fos­ter-Hen­ry that they have con­tin­ued the lega­cy of the school’s first prin­ci­pal Yvonne Pin­der.

The peren­ni­al West “B” cham­pi­on was awe­some once again on Tues­day when the 34th edi­tion of the Games was staged at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, with some 5,000 cheer­ing fans.

Di­a­mond Vale showed it con­tin­ues to ex­cel, sweep­ing both the boys’ and girls’ cat­e­gories through stel­lar per­for­mances from Za­kya Gill, Kalia Ben­jamin, Is­rael Wick­ham, Mu­jahid Joseph, Tae-Han Joseph and Jah­mir Chris­t­ian. How­ev­er, they did not start as they did in the March Past, but this year was dif­fer­ent as Pat­na Riv­er Es­tate Gov­ern­ment out-marched them com­pre­hen­sive­ly for a re­mark­able win.

In West A, Mar­aval Ro­man Catholic School gave Sports Teacher Karen Forde-Fe­li­cien some­thing to smile about when they won the judges’ nod. This is her fi­nal year at Mar­aval RC.

For­mer cham­pi­ons, Care­nage Girls Gov­ern­ment swept the West “A” Zone girl’s ti­tle with great per­for­mances from Aria Jules, Safi­rah Scott, Des­tiny Noel and Sal­imah Law­er­ence while in the process halt­ing the im­pres­sive run of for­mer cham­pi­on Mar­aval RC.

Care­nage Girls were aid­ed by the per­for­mances of the vic­trix lu­do­rum win­ners.

Sal­imah Lawrence was un­beat­en, prov­ing to be a class act, win­ning the 100, 200 and 400 me­tres, re­spec­tive­ly, with the min­i­mum of fuss.

The 15-time cham­pi­on Care­nage re­gained the win­ning thread in 2024 to move to 16 wins.

The “Gi­ant Killers” Dun­ross Prepara­to­ry School, which was the cham­pi­on of the West Zone and Port-of-Spain and En­vi­rons in foot­ball, could not add an­oth­er lau­rel to their bulging bags of suc­cess­es. How­ev­er, they were all proud of Jake Cor­reia who was im­pres­sive in win­ning the Vic­tor Lu­do­rum for the school.

Di­a­mond Vale, which de­fend­ed its boys’ ti­tle, has pre­vi­ous­ly won the Cham­pi­onship every year since the Games be­gan. Its girls’ team, mean­while, has nev­er lost a Cham­pi­onship since its in­cep­tion. The out­stand­ing per­form­ers in West A in­clud­ed Mar­aval RC’s Jo-an­no Al­leyne, and Kaseem Du­ver­ney, who were vic­trix and vic­tor lu­do­rum in the boys’ Un­der-9 and U-11, re­spec­tive­ly.

There were su­perb per­for­mances from Dun­ross’ star Cor­riea who was un­beat­able in all three events.

There were al­so note­wor­thy per­for­mances from U-9 girl ath­lete of Crys­tal Stream Gov­ern­ment’s Ami­rah Greene who raced un­beat­en in the 60m and 80m events. Kel­cy Roach was the stand-out per­former of Crys­tal Stream win­ning all three races for the U-9 girls. Diego Mar­tin Gov­ern­ment’s Kean­na Cum­ming was at her best win­ning the 100m and 200m be­fore fin­ish­ing sec­ond to Brit­ney Mor­gan of Crys­tal Stream Gov­ern­ment.

Mi­lo’s Con­sumer Mar­ket­ing Man­ag­er Neke­sha Bartholomew-Ramey laud­ed the West Zone man­age­ment for a won­der­ful sports day. Thanks and prais­es were show­ered on the co­or­di­na­tors Maria Si­mon and Camilus Ol­livierre.

They both thanked Mi­lo for their in­volve­ment and ap­plaud­ed them for the as­sis­tance giv­en to sport and ed­u­ca­tion. They com­mend­ed the pi­o­neers of the Mi­lo Games and said that the gala open­ing cer­e­mo­ny and march past were things worth savour­ing.

Ho­n­our Roll

March Past:

West A: 1 Mar­aval RC School

West B: 1 Pat­na Riv­er Es­tate Govt

Vic­trix Lu­do­rum: West A:

U-9: Des­tiny Lawrence (Care­nage Girls Govt)

U-11: Aria Jules (Care­nage Girls Gov't)

U-13: Safi­rah Scott (Care­nage Gov't)

U-15: Sal­imah Lawrence (Care­nage Girls Gov't)

Vic­tor Lu­do­rum - West A:

U-9: Jo-an­no Al­leyne (Mar­aval RC)

U-11: Kaseem Du­ver­ney (Mar­aval RC)

U-13: Jake Cor­riea (Dun­ross Prep)

U-15: Ethan Owuori (ISPS)

Vic­tor Lu­do­rum - West B:

U-9: Jah­mir Chris­t­ian (Di­a­mond Vale Govt)

U-11: Tae-Han Joseph (Di­a­mond Vale Gov't)

U-13: Mu­jahid Joseph (Dai­mond Vale Gov't)

U-15: Is­rael Wick­ham (Di­a­mond Vale Gov't)

Vic­trix Lu­do­rum - West B:

U-9: Jah­mir Chris­t­ian (Di­a­mond Vale Govt)

U-11: Kel­cy Roach (Crys­tal Stream Gov­ern­ment)

U-13: Kean­na Cum­mings (Diego Mar­tin Gov't)

U-15: Kalia Ben­jamin (Di­a­mond Vale Gov­ern­ment)