THE 2013 CARIFTA Games got under the way with an opening ceremony at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium in The Bahamas on Friday evening.
The ceremony featured 26 teams on parade for the 42nd edition of the Games, the supremacy of junior track and field in the Caribbean.
Barbados were among the teams who filed through the stadium before a near capacity crowd of 15,000.
The competition will start on Saturday morning when there will be four field event finals before attention switches to the evening session that will be highlighted by the finals of the 100 metres and 400 metres in both the Under-17 and Under-20 divisions.
CARIFTA Games start with opening ceremony
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