Mashramani

This celebrates Guyana becoming a Republic in 1970. It is usually held on Guyanese Republic Day, and includes a parade, music, games and cooking and is intended to commemorate the “Birth of the Republic”. The word Mashramani derives from an Amerindian word and in Guyanese English means “celebration after cooperative or hard work”. It involves all Guyanese ethnic groups with spectacular costume competitions, float parades, masquerade bands and dancing in the streets to the accompaniment of steel band music and calypsos.