APPROXIMATELY 30 bands are expected to be part of this year’s Mashramani float and costume parade, which will put the spotlight on government’s agenda of promoting a “green” economy.“We’re expecting 30 – 32 bands to be on the road, that is what the average has been,” said Mash Event Coordinator, Lennox Canterbury, at a news conference last week. The news conference was held by the Organising Committee at the Ministry of Education’s Department of Culture, Youth and Sport head office on Main Street. The notion of incorporating Guyana’s green economy concept was well received by many of the designers, he said.
“What we’re trying to do is as much as stay within the national concept of a green economy. We’ve been meeting with the Mash Camps and discussing with them, use, and recycling of the costumes at the end of the day. We spoke to them with respect to activities like avoiding the footprint; and the use of local indigenous materials,” Canterbury explained.