Banks DIH vows 100 percent support to Mash 2017

Jan 28, 2017 News

While some corporations might be scaling back on their usual support for Mashramani, Banks DIH made it clear that there is no backing down this year. In fact, senior management of the company assured that the billion-dollar company will be throwing its full support behind Mash 2017.
This announcement follows a recent meeting with Mashramani Coordinator, Lennox Canterbury, Public Relations Officer Mondale Smith, Banks DIH Sales and Marketing Executive Carlton Joao, and Events Manager Mortimer Stewart.
The Beverage Giant also pledged to sponsor several events to make Mashramani 2017 a success.
The company’s Events Manager commented that “Guyana is Banks Country”. As such, Banks DIH intends to sponsor, as well as tangibly support as many events that it can this year.
This newspaper understands that the company has added further pledges in addition to the sizable sum normally offered towards sponsorship of the 2017 Adult Calypso Monarch competitions. The semifinals of that event which features 19 contenders are slated to be staged in Linden at the MSC ground while the finals are scheduled for staging at the Demerara Park, the area outside Banks DIH Headquarters, with Mayor Patricia Chase Greene as the Convener.
Sponsorship from Banks is assured towards making the Junior Calypso Monarch Competition a success. That event is slated for February 4 in Georgetown. Further, the company has offered sponsorship towards the National Children’s Road Parade.
In addition, as a prelude to February 23, Banks DIH has decided to fully sponsor two pre-Mash Crank up events on Main Street, between Quamina Street and Church Road.
Those mega events promise to offer a hot spot for entertainment and Mashramani enthusiasts to gather for some Guyanese style socializing and entertainment. Many specials will be offered to patrons of the events.
On Thursday, officials from the Ministry of Education Department of Culture, Youth and Sport, along with representatives from Banks DIH met in the Main Street Avenue to work out logistics to make the event most memorable.
The mega Mash hype, a free of charge event, will offer a platform for the many competitions and none competition singers to show case their singing/ entertainment abilities, as well as, a healthy serving of Steel pan vibes.
The creations that will be part of the February 23 Costume and Float Parade will also be showcased as a prelude to what will be on display along the Mash Route come Mash Day 2017. Those events will be held on February 3 and February10 on the Main Street Avenue. The event which starts from 4:30pm carries no admittance fee for the public.
Onstage performances will feature the likes of the competing Calypsonians from the Adult competition, as well as, popular Guyanese Soca artistes who do not have a stage to compete on this year but have gone the extra mile to produce music for the festival.
The headline Act is reigning Groovy Soca Monarch King Jumo “Rubber Waist” Primo. Banks DIH has also planned a mega J’ouvert event for staging at the Demerara Park on February 22.

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