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The 52nd edition of the Carifta Games officially opened on April 18 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, marking Trinidad and Tobago’s first time hosting the regional athletics championship in two decades.

The opening ceremony began at 3 pm and welcomed junior athletes from 28 Caribbean countries and dependencies to an event described by World Athletics president Sebastian Coe at the opening as athletics’ “most important junior competition in the world.”

The event opened with performances by the police, fire service and prison bands, who delivered calypso-inspired arrangements to a cosmopolitan audience.