The Trinidad and To­ba­go Com­mon­wealth Games As­so­ci­a­tion (TTC­GA) will lead as the first Ba­ton bear­er for the start of the King’s Ba­ton Re­lay amongst the 74 Com­mon­wealth na­tions.

King’s Ba­ton Re­lay Cel­e­bra­tions for the TTC­GA will spend five days filled with ac­tiv­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go be­gin­ning on Tues­day (March) 11 in Trinidad and then over to its beau­ti­ful sis­ter is­land of To­ba­go from March 14-15 be­fore head­ing off to its next Caribbean des­ti­na­tion of St Kitts and Nevis.

The King’s Ba­ton Re­lay will be­gin at Buck­ing­ham Palace on Com­mon­wealth Day 10th March 2025 where his Majesty the King will present His Mes­sage to the Com­mon­wealth em­bed­ded with­in the Ba­ton and car­ried as part of a Re­lay. This will mark the start to the count­down to­wards Glas­gow 2026.

TTC­GA Pres­i­dent, Di­ane Hen­der­son, “Trinidad and To­ba­go is thrilled to be the first host of the King’s Ba­ton Re­lay, show­cas­ing its cre­ativ­i­ty and cul­ture through its own Ba­ton de­sign. As well, be­ing able to con­tribute to the Clean Oceans plas­tic cam­paign, and the en­gage­ment of our lega­cies from CYG Trin­ba­go 2023.”

The Ba­ton Re­lay is a tra­di­tion that cel­e­brates, con­nects and ex­cites com­mu­ni­ties from every cor­ner of the Com­mon­wealth dur­ing the buildup to the Com­mon­wealth Games, em­brac­ing unique cul­tures and shar­ing sto­ries.

King’s Ba­ton Re­lay, Com­mon­wealth Sport, for the first time, part­nered with the Roy­al Com­mon­wealth So­ci­ety (RCS) to de­liv­er the Com­mon­wealth Clean Oceans Plas­tics Cam­paign – bring­ing much-need­ed at­ten­tion to both on­go­ing ocean con­ser­va­tion ef­forts and in­ter­est­ing new so­lu­tions to plas­tic waste.

The cam­paign aim is for ath­letes and com­mu­ni­ties to come to­geth­er to pre­vent one mil­lion pieces of plas­tic from en­ter­ing Com­mon­wealth wa­ters and spark last­ing change in how we view plas­tic pol­lu­tion.

TTC­GA in its ef­fort to ac­tive­ly am­pli­fy the Ba­ton Re­lay and its pro­mo­tion of clean en­vi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and dri­ving col­lec­tive ac­tion to­wards a clean­er, green­er fu­ture, will part­ner with Caribbean Net­work for In­te­grat­ed Rur­al De­vel­op­ment (CN­RID) to host a beach clean-up dur­ing the af­ter­noon pe­ri­od on Wednes­day 12th March 2025 at In­vaders Bay.

The Com­mon­wealth Games (CWG) is a unique, world class, mul­ti-sport event that is held once every four years and is of­ten re­ferred to as the ‘Friend­ly Games’. The CWG brings to­geth­er the mem­bers of the Com­mon­wealth of Na­tions in an ef­fort to raise the bar of sport for all hu­man­i­ty and pro­vide a lev­el play­ing field where ath­letes com­pete in a spir­it of friend­ship and fair play.

This time each of the 74 Com­mon­wealth coun­tries will re­ceive their own Ba­ton, sim­pler than past Mu­se­um-style ba­tons, to al­low coun­tries to dec­o­rate their ba­tons to show­case its cul­tur­al wealth. Each Com­mon­wealth Games As­so­ci­a­tions (CGA) have been en­cour­aged to en­sure the Ba­ton re­flects their cul­ture, cre­ativ­i­ty and vi­sion. It can be paint­ed, carved, or craft­ed, as cho­sen.

The King’s Ba­ton Re­lay will cul­mi­nate mark­ing at the Open­ing Cer­e­mo­ny of Glas­gow 2026, one of the largest the mul­ti­sport Games, on Ju­ly 23, 2026.