After months of intense competition in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph company (GT&T) eight edition of the Jingle and Song Competition, Ryan Hoppie and Bibi Khan were on Friday announced the winners of the English and Bollywood segments respectively at the company’s BlackBerry headquarters, Brickdam, Georgetown.
This is the first year there was an absence of a grand finale which would normally pull the curtains on highly anticipated competition.
Hoppie and Khan who both won $1million in cash and brand new Toyota Raum motor cars to the tune of over $2 million each. Also in the winner’s row for the English segment were Michael Small, Diana Chapman, Dorian Obbermuller and Natasha Yap, who were awarded with $750,000, $500,000, $250,000 and $150,000 respectively. In the Bollywood segment, Andy Rambarack, Reshma Persaud, Bounty Singh and Devchandra Ramrattan also received $750,000, $500,000, $250,000 and $150,000 respectively.
The other contestants received $50,000 each. Apart from the monetary prizes, each contestant received a BlackBerry Z10 handset.