A North Georgetown Primary student leading the school’s ‘Frolic in the Sun’ band during the Children’s Mashramani Costume and Float parade yesterday.
The streets of Georgetown were covered in fruits, flowers and fish with a little bit of liquid gold for several hours yesterday as Guyana’s children frolicked for the 2018 Children’s Mashramani Costume and Float parade.
The annual parade saw dozens of bands tramping along the route from the Parade Ground to the National Park.
Each of the 11 Educational Departments showed up and showed out with students from Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Vocational institutions celebrating all aspects of Guyanese life.
A majority of the bands appeared to focus on aspects of Guyana’s flora and fauna and members of last year’s standout, Graham’s Hall Primary, tagged themselves as “Guyana’s Arapaima.”
While Department Six declared to the judges that their region’s attachment to rice farming by titling their band “Rice Ah We Thing,” Department Two took time to display the entire process “From the farm to the pot.”
Several other entries chose to focus on a specific flowers, with St Ambrose’s Primary decorating the route with the many stamen of the exotic Heliconia plant, while the colorful petals of the flowers in St Anne’s Primary bouquet pushed for “pollination.”
Lodge Nursery, however, chose to celebrate a different type of resource, the recently discovered “liquid gold.”