Success Laventille top Angostura Youth Games

Hockett Baptist Primary finished in second place, while Morvant New Government ended in third position. Fourteen primary schools participated in the games with Angostura LLB supporting the event.

The organisers changed the meaning of LLB (lemon, lime and bitters) to “live, love, be” to fit the occasion.

The games were fashioned after the Olympic Games with each school representing different countries such as Grenada, Haiti, Colombia, Spain, Greece and Italy.

Events included musical chairs, a bike relay, balloon pop, bucket stacker and various running events. In the march past, Morvant New Government won the title, ahead of St Dominic’s RC and Chinapoo Government respectively.

Giselle Laronde- West, Communications Manager of Angostura, said the goal of the games was to have unity among the schools in the area.

“The idea behind the games was originally to bring the students of different schools in the area together, from Laventille, Morvant and Beetham,” Laronde-West said. “We (Angostura) wanted to make sure the schools are not segregated, so they could have one big school sports event.” Laronde-West said developing the human skills of the students was the number one aim. “What we try to do is to make sure we play with their team skills, their encouragement skills, they concentrate on teamwork, they build confidence.

“We like working with the kids because we believe they are the future. We of course are in this area, so we will like to give back as much as we can to the children who could make a difference.”