Nerves, excellence evident as children’s Mashramani competitions kick off

Scenes from the start of the annual Children’s Mashramani Competition, which opened yesterday at the National Cultural Centre. Photographs by Anjuli Persaud.

The Georgetown leg of the annual Children’s Mashramani Competition opened yesterday with the calypso and dramatic poetry segments at the National Cultural Centre (NCC), where some showed nerves while others went all out to impress the judges.

Coordinator of the event, presented by the Department of Education (Georgetown), Daniela Mc Calmon said that with the first leg of the five-day competition completed, exceptional performances from all the participating schools were seen and that fresh ideas were