Min. of Education launches vibrant Mash Band
Minister within the Ministry of Education, Nicolette
Henry poses with staff of her ministry during Tuesday’s
launch of their 300-strong full costume revelers Mash
band, themed “Guyana an emerging green state.” The
costumes and float were designed by the E.R Burrowes
School of Art
Minister within the Ministry of Education, Nicolette Henry poses with staff of her ministry during Tuesday’s launch of their 300-strong full costume revelers Mash band, themed “Guyana an emerging green state.” The costumes and float were designed by the E.R Burrowes School of Art

THINGS are looking good over at the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) Mash Camp, which utilised the skills of the instructor and students of the E. R. Burrowes School of Arts, to put together one of the more vibrant Mash Bands expected to come out at tomorrow’s Mashramani Costume and Float Parade.

The Ministry’s Department of Culture, Youth and Sport, officially launched their Mash band yesterday afternoon at the E. R. Burrowes School of Art on Carifesta Avenue, where Junior Minister, Nicolette Henry, smilingly gave her endorsement of the spectacular costumes.
“I think it’s awesome! The pieces that we see here today are really fantastic and definitely I look forward to a good showing from the Ministry of Education. I’m really impressed and happy with what I see here today,” Henry said.

With the organisation of Mashramani falling under Henry’s department, the Ministry was hard pressed to lead by example and put on one of the best of the day’s floats. “We’ve done our part. It’s now for the revellers and the bands to go out and have a great time. We’ve prepared the venue, we’ve done the route and we’ve put the necessary arrangements in place. It’s up to them now to go out there and have a good time. It promises to be a really exciting, and great event. It’s been a really awesome and phenomenal effort from a lot of people.” Henry relayed.

Junior Minister responsible for Culture, Youth and Sports, Nicolette Henry, (fourth from right) in the midst of the models displaying the costumes

The MOE’s band is conceptualized under the theme “Guyana an Emerging Green State,” and will be coming 300 strong tomorrow in the large band full costume category. Most of the costumes were designed by the school’s instructor Sean Thomas.
Coordinator at the School, Volda Ramsammy, gave some insight into what was going on with some of the costumes, as she gave media personnel a little tour of the Mash Camp.

“Because we are envisioning a green Guyana, we are trying to portray the sense that we are tapping into, things like hydropower. There’s our costume for solar power. We have our forest. The Queen’s costume represents the eco system. Because our ecosystem is very rich in flora and fauna, what we are trying to depict here is the richness of our environment. We’re looking at things like butterflies, flowers, birds, and even a monkey. The main part of this costume is a rare butterfly that can be found in the rainforest. The King’s costume basically represents our solar power, which Guyana will soon be tapping into,” Ramsammy explained.

On the road the revellers will be divided into sections, partitioned by the Queen and King.
“Its 300 strong: we have 3 sections. We have a set of revellers that will be going behind the Queen which represents eco systems, then we have 100 coming behind the King which will be representing solar energy, and behind the float we have a mixture of all the other costumes.” Ramsammy revealed.

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