Mashramani activities begin this weekend

The Ministry of Education’s Department of Culture, Youth and Sport has revealed some of the events planned for this year’s Mashramani celebrations, which will start this weekend.

This year’s celebrations, which are being run off under the theme “Celebration of Diversity, Unity and Sovereignty,” will kick-start Guyana’s 50th Independence Jubilee. Though the annual Mashramani float and costume parade has been rescheduled to May to coincide with other activities planned for the independence celebrations, a few of the traditional Mashramani events will go ahead as usual.

A press release issued by the ministry stated that steelband concerts to be held in