Miss BVI hopefuls complete unimpressive interview segment
However, were one to have been in the audience of the Miss BVI 2015 Promotional and Interviewing segment last night July 30, 2015, one couldn't help but be concerned as candidates, maybe due to nervousness, bungled responses and used the gift of language in a less than impressive fashion.
As this news site does not want to appear biased, we will not point to any single contestant as having unsatisfactory answers to three relatively non complicated and current affairs themed questions asked of them as part of the competition.
All of the candidates were asked the same three questions while the others remained sequestered and could not hear what was being asked.
The contestants for the Miss BVI 2015 competition are Ciara M. Christian, Adorya R. Baly, Michelle Parsons, Ashellica Fahie, Helena Hewlett and Dominique A. M. Maloney.
Unimpressive responses
Some of the candidates struggled with the cohesiveness of their responses, the relevance of the answers to the questions asked, subject and verb errors and a plethora of other language sins, not expected at such a high level of competition.
Host of the show, Suzanne Rhymer, daughter of Virgin Islands icon businesswoman and Festival 2015 honouree Patsy C. Lake, was engaging as a host of such an event was expected to be. She was lively, witty and humorous in a self-effacing manner with a measure of appropriateness that was well suited for the occasion.
Earlier in the night, the girls presented their promotional pitch of the Virgin Islands, in most cases highlighting some aspect of the territory's deep rooted cultural heritage. Following this segment, the girls came out to showcase their business-wear.
The most pivotal portion of the night clearly was the interview segment. Rhymer first got the contestants confortable by asking them some light but pertinent questions about themselves and the competition. Assuring the contestants that they were free to ask her to repeat the questions at any time, Rhymer then posed her three questions to each of the contestants.
The first asked what avenues the Virgin Islands can explore to become more environmentally conscious as the world-wide trend was moving towards renewable energy. The second asked what benefits to tourism would an expanded Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport have on the territory's tourism and the third asked what the newly accredited H. Lavity Stoutt Community College meant for education in the territory.
While some of the responses drew applauses from the audience, others drew sighs and groans with the occasional heckling.
All of the scores of last night’s segment will be added to the final tally together with what votes come in through text message for the final leg of the competition on Sunday August 2, 2015 when the new Miss BVI 2015 will be crowned.
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49 Responses to “Miss BVI hopefuls complete unimpressive interview segment”
What really defines "cute"? God said he made us in his own image. so you fools shut up. Everyone is beautiful in there own way.
Keep God out of this. There's enough of everything to go around: beauty and ugliness, good and bad! You gonna blame him for the bad? Everybody dont have to agree.
Contestant number !@%3*@ is a clown
Imagine they were abroad being interviewed & they gave the type of responses they did at the promo...the ppl would look at the BVI as a joke & wonder if that's the best we have. Damn shame
And we complain that businesses hire from abroad...Would you hire any of these females ? Disgraceful!!!
Maybe the Carnival Committee needs to rethink the selection of the HOST as well as the committee that puts this segment together. I also like the interview suggestion. On a whole this segment should probably be changed to a variety of public activities that forces the contestants to present themselves.
The first presentation should probably be JUST FOR SCREENING AS A PREREQUISITE FOR ENTERING THE COMPETITION. As an educator, I believe in QUALITY! QUALITY should out-weigh POPULARITY AND BEAUTY in everyway!
REMEMBER THAT IN ALL OF THIS OUR TERRITORY'S IMAGE IS AT STAKE!