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Supermarket entry:
Nigel's Supermarket Lady - the Queen of the Band - pushes her trolley costume into the National Park on Wednesday where the Costume Band and Float Parade ended. The supermarket's contingent of some 60 revellers entered the costume category.
(Colin Harding photo)
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Leading from the front:
Prime Minister Sam Hinds (right) and Minister of Works and Hydraulics, Anthony Xavier waving to the crowd as they led off the parade of their respective ministries as part of the Mash 2000 festivities on Wednesday.
(Ken Moore photo).
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KFC sizzles:
Costumed revellers associated with Kentucky Fried Chicken participated in the annual Mash Float parade on Wednesday. In this Colin Harding photo, these sassy outfits sizzled like the Colonel's chicken.
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Forward!
Members of the 100-strong Ministry of Human Services and Social Security band in rather stately gait during the Mash 2000 celebrations on Wednesday as the camera of Stabroek News Chief Photographer Ken Moore caught them along Church Street.
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Catching the beat!
Revellers from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports catch the beat in perfect timing with the tempo of a popular Caribbean tune at the annual float parade on Wednesday. The band which was designed by Michael Khan and students of the Burrowes School of Art, depicted "Spirits in Unity Past, Present, and Future". The band sported some 150 Mash players.
(Colin Harding photo).
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Outreach ministries style:
Fifty dancers from the Outreach International Ministries church, in three segments, participated in Mash 2000 featuring "Kingdom Style". Here the dancers perform their piece for the judges in the National Park on Wednesday afternoon.
(Colin Harding photo)
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Another retinue from the 1500-member Rayon House of Fashion band which participated in the Mash 2000 float parade on Wednesday. These costumes depicted Love and Unity under the banner "From Whence We Came".
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A dose of unity:
This was the Region Four (Demerara/Mahaica) float - a colourful Canje Pheasant said to be ailing and in need of medication named 'unity' for it to recover. The region's theme for Mash 2000 on Wednesday was "National Emergency: Unity Please" and the group comprised 80 persons.
(Colin Harding photo)
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Helping Guyana grow:
Celebrants from the Guyana Sugar Corporation Limited (Guysuco) under the theme "Helping Guyana Grow", showing their mettle along Church Street on Wednesday as part of the Mash 2000 float parade.
(Ken Moore photo)
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Celebrating our wildlife:
A float from the Region Six contingent at the Mash parade on Wednesday. It depicted tourism and the species of wildlife in our rain forests.
(Ken Moore photo)
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The men show them how!
The male segment of the Mayor and City Council contingent which took to the streets on Wednesday to Mash as one in 2000.
(Ken Moore photo).
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No barrier:
Size was no hindrance to `Mashing as one in 2000' as this member of the M&CC contingent demonstrated as she took her place in their line up on Wednesday.
(Ken Moore photo).
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Cash craze:
The King of the Western Union Money Transfer band taking a break on Church Street while waiting to get on the Mash Route on Wednesday. Western Union, boasting some 400 revellers, and mashing under the theme `Western Union - Cash Craze' were decked out in costumes designed by veteran designer Bernard Ramsay.
(Colin Harding photo)
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Good use of space:
Guyanese from all walks of life gathered in every conceivable spot to get a glimpse of the Mash 2000 float parade on Wednesday. In this Colin Harding photo spectators gathered on the lawns of the Army headquarters, Camp Ayanganna to scrutinise the revellers as they made their way into the National Park.
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Strategically located:
Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Major General Joseph Singh (right) in a relaxed mood on Wednesday as he and members of his family viewed the Mash 2000 float parade as it passed in front of the army's headquarters on its way to the National Park.
(Colin Harding photo)
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The full sweep of life:
A section of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports Mash 2000 band which depicted "Spirits in Unity, Past, Present and Future" doing its rounds in the National Park on Wednesday.
(Colin Harding photo)
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Revellers:
Former PNC deputy Prime Minister and General Secretary, attorney-at-law Robert Corbin (third from left in party jersey), mingled with revellers who tramped behind the political organisation's banner PNC 2000 strong on Wednesday.
(Colin Harding photo)
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