Mash camps busy as ‘festive fever’ heats up
Digicel helpers getting ready to ‘close up shop’ but just making sure all is in place (Adrian Narine photos)
Digicel helpers getting ready to ‘close up shop’ but just making sure all is in place (Adrian Narine photos)

AS Mashramani draws nearer, designers and their workers are busily putting together colourful and resplendent costumes in time for the costume and float parade on February 23, in keeping with this year’s theme ‘One People, One Culture, One Celebration’.

The Guyana Chronicle visited a few of the camps yesterday to have a firsthand view of how the preparations and final touches are coming along.
Digicel Communications Manager, Vidya Bijlall-Sanichara spoke with Chronicle’s reporter explaining that they have finished all costumes including their float, and male and female individual pieces. She related too that the “the distribution of the costumes are about 95% finished.” This year, Sanichara, emphasised the company has outdone itself with the largest contingent they have ever brought forth. “We have 400-plus persons with some persons still coming along to register,” she said.
The Ministry of Agriculture will be entering the small band category with 50 revellers in full costumes. The ministry is placing emphasis on their ‘grow more locally’ campaign and as such their costumes will be depicting same. The Agriculture Ministry will be mashing under the theme “Cultivating our land” and their costumes are designed by Olympia Small-Sonoram.
“Celebrating in Harmony” is the theme that the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has chosen to Mash down the streets of Georgetown to. A representative from the Borrows School of Art explained that the ministry has some 300 persons in their band this year and they have chosen the theme to coincide with this year’s Mashramani theme.
The revelers will be broken up into three groups and they will take the idea of unity, diversity and celebration to the streets. These colourful revellers will represent not only the six peoples of Guyana, but also the multi-ethnic society we live in.
The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce and the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) with their 100- strong band will be embracing the country’s diversity through their costumes and float. Under the theme ‘embracing our diversity as we celebrate one people, one culture, one celebration”, the ministry will be entering the Mashramani competition under the medium category.

(By Rebecca Ganesh-Ally)

 

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