Miss Caribbean World Contestants showcase intelligence at Q&A
The segment was staged in the Eileene L. Parsons auditorium of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College before a small audience. The MC for the evening was reigning Miss Caribbean World, Nadira Lando of Dominica.
Each of the eleven (11) contestants fielded two questions which were judged by a five member panel; the segment counted for a total of 100 points.
Contestants competing in the segment last evening were from Antigua & Barbuda – Ranee Laronde; British Virgin Islands – Sharie B. de Castro; Cuba – Daniela Garcia; Dominica - Leslassa Armour Shillingford; US Virgin Islands – Cliaunjel Williams; St Lucia – Joy Ann Biscette; The Bahamas – Mea Petit Homme; St Kitts & Nevis – Trevicia Adams; St Lucia – Ann Biscette; Trinidad & Tobago – Sonia Millington; St Vincent & The Grenadines – Carice Glasgow and The United States of America – Jaielean Thomas.
Ms Antigua said the most important lesson a person should learn in life is knowing God while Ms Bahamas said Caribbean governments can set up a payment plan to ensure that their young people obtain quality tertiary education.
Ms British Virgin Islands agreed that limitations should be placed on the number of years persons could hold elected office to limit ‘career politicians’ since during their term they would be given the necessary time and opportunity to prove themselves, their initiatives and their concerns.
According to Ms Cuba, beauty pageants empowered women and allowed them to express that they were not just beautiful but were also smart and had to be aware of government and world issues. “It’s not just about beauty,” she said, “it’s about education.”
When asked which celebrity she would have dinner with, dead or alive, Ms Dominica said though it was ironic since he starved himself, she would choose Mahatma Ghandi since she would like to know his thoughts and the reasons for these thoughts. She added, “his drive for peace is so inspiring, it’s what I hope to do to affect people in my own way, in a peaceful way and so that would really be my dream.”
Ms St Kitts & Nevis was asked whether she believed global warming existed or instead agreed with critics who say it is a huge fraud. She agreed that it existed and felt that persons needed to take a keen interest in the environment and what is around them in order to see a more prosperous and better future in terms of climate change.
Meanwhile, Ms St Lucia felt the greatest challenge facing women in her country was self-belief and offered that this prevented them from moving forward. Ms St Vincent & The Grenadines disagreed that her country should enact stricter immigration legislation as she thought the country possessed a very open and loving society, which was culturally diverse.
Ms Trinidad & Tobago was asked how much of an impact the UK government’s continued increase in airport passenger duty on travel from the UK had on the region’s ailing tourism industry. She said, “For many countries in the Caribbean, tourism is our major source of making the economy a richer one and where tourism is on a decline, that would mean that less foreigners are coming in to our countries and thereby we only gain less and less money to thereby increase and better our own economy.”
According to Ms USA there were not enough resources dedicated to disaster management in her country. She made reference to the recent bombings in the city of Boston and noted that “there was not enough disaster preparations or people… it just simply wasn’t enough to help the environment. Everyone was hurting and there weren’t people, there weren’t the economic resources to help the hurting victims.” She added that there weren’t people to “lock down Boston” or people to “find these victims in a timely manner…”
Ms US Virgin Islands defined success as someone who lives freely and enjoyed life; it was someone who accomplished much, such that they were able to survive and live and get back to whomever they might be able to give back to. She added that success came from knowledge, education, going to a higher level and connecting spiritually.
Entertainment for the evening was provided by the four-member group Harmonics.
The 8th Annual Miss Caribbean World Pageant will be held at the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex on Saturday May 4, 2013.
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