By Jairo Rodrigues
When it comes to designing and décor, Randy Fredericks is your guy, he is the owner and manager of Velvet which is probably Guyana’s leading entity in event planning and decorating, which celebrated its first anniversary on June 7 last.
Randy was born to Pamela and Rudolph Fredericks on June 7, 1987 just 11 months after his older brother Rodwin. “I remember telling my friends that my parents realised they had made a mistake so they tried again and that’s why I was born just 11 months after Rodwin,” he jokes. Randy finds it interesting to share the same age with his older brother for a few weeks. His younger brother Ryan was born in 1995. Randy jokingly said “I assume my father had humour [or wanted] to confuse my mom for the rest of her life by naming all of his children names beginning with the letter ‘R’.”
Growing up his family lived in Georgetown, just a stone’s throw away from Bourda Market. His mother and grandmother would sell achar just outside their family home and the boys would help to