Republic $$ for UWI race

REPUBLIC BANK Limited pitched in $10,000 to the UWI International Half-Marathon. The bank handed over  a cheque in that amount to UWI Sport and Physical Education Centre (SPEC director Dr Iva Gloudon at the St Augustine Campus for their inaugural half-marathon to be contested on November 14. Runners will vie for over $100,000 in prizes. Caribbean and seven-time winner of the CLICO Trinidad and Tobago marathon Pamenos Ballantyne and arch-rival, Trinidadian Ronnie Holassie, are expected to match strides and guts in the race which begins at 6.30 am from SPEC, and travel the 13.1-mile closed course which will take them along the Priority Bus Route to the turnaround point at La Resource and back to UWI to the finish line.

Registration is in progress at selected branches of Republic Bank. Already Kenyan marathon runner John Murieth and Russian Tatiana Titova have signed on. University students from regional and international institutions have also been invited to participate in the event. Republic Bank’s involvement in the UWI Half-Marathon is part of their Power To Make A Difference Programme, which has committed $40 million to the alleviation of poverty, education, sport and entrepreneurship over a five-year period.