KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: The thousands of Vincentians who turned out to Heritage Square Monday to witness Earl “Old George” Daniel and Joel Butcher “complete” their world record-breaking six-day non-stop walk were stunned when the duet announced that they would only be making a brief stop and would continue walking. Daniel and Butcher began walking at about 6:16 p.m. on Tuesday March 8. Daniel, who is spearheading the attempt at a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, had said that they would have stopped walking wherever they were when the six-day period elapsed. As it turned out, this was not to be the case. Thousands of Vincentians lined the streets from Sion Hill unto Murray’s Road on the outskirts of St. Vincent’s capital – Kingstown. Any visitor to the island could have been easily fooled into believing that St. Vincent had returned its carnival to the pre-Lenten season and was engaged in the Monday Street Party event. This would have been conveyed not only by the large crowd but by the celebratory music. Daniel and Butcher, escorted by police outriders, stopped to participate in a very brief ceremony at Heritage Square in Kingstown. The large crowd gathered there canonised him into National Hero’s status as his accomplishment ideally coincided with the nation’s celebration of National Hero’s Day. Reprinted from Caribbean Net News caribbeannetnews.com