The annual Mother and Daughter pageant has become quite traditional in the Guyanese celebration of a day to honour mothers. It is a household name and anticipated event, unique in nature as it is perhaps the only pageant of its kind in the Caribbean.
Twenty-four years ago, mother and daughter, Roxanne and Maritza Lord competed and won the Junior Category of the first Mother and Daughter Pageant, which was staged at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on the eve of Mother’s Day in 1990.
Roxanne was first approached by Ingrid Fung, her friend from growing up in Essequibo who was executive director and producer of the pageant. Roxanne hesitated; it was not a matter of her not wanting to be a part of the pageant but it was her terrible stage fright. Maritza, on the other hand,