Thursday, September 2 2010

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BRILLIANT PYROTECHNICS: This brilliant firework lit up the sky over the Queen's Park Savannah on Tuesday night in the annual Independence Day firework...

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FIREWORKS lit up the Port-of-Spain sky above the Queen’s Park Savannah on the night of Independence Day when Firepower Fireworks in collaboration with Newsday, IETV Channel 1 and Stega Engineering presented a spectacle entitled “A gift to the nation’’.

Hundreds of excited spectators, many of whom were children, were dazzled by the impressive display where for the first time, the fireworks were choreographed to music. Newsday’s photographer SUREASH CHOLAI covered the event and brought back these images.

The fireworks display rounded off a day of celebrations to mark the 48th anniversary of Independence which included a parade of officers from the various arms of the Defence Force which was held during the morning period at the Queen’s Park Savannah and then the National Awards ceremony held at Queen’s Hall in St Ann’s on Tuesday evening.