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'We have committed to having' Miss BVI 2026- Natalie O. Hodge

- applications for Miss BVI 2026 opened on March 17; Attractive prizes being pursued
Applications for the 2026 Miss BVI Pageant opened on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. Photo: Facebook
First Runner Up in the 2024 Miss BVI Pageant, Miss Donyelle D. Hodge, was coronated as Miss BVI 2025. Photo: Facebook
First Runner Up in the 2024 Miss BVI Pageant, Miss Donyelle D. Hodge, was coronated as Miss BVI 2025. Photo: Facebook
Chair of the Miss BVI Sub-committee, Natalie O. Hodge, told Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) the Miss BVI Pageant will take place this year after last year’s cancellation. Photo: BVITB
Chair of the Miss BVI Sub-committee, Natalie O. Hodge, told Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) the Miss BVI Pageant will take place this year after last year’s cancellation. Photo: BVITB
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Applications for the 2026 Miss BVI Pageant opened on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, and Chair of the Miss BVI Sub-committee, Natalie O. Hodge, told Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) the pageant will take place this year after last year’s cancellation.

The 2025 Miss BVI Pageant was cancelled due to only two contestants remaining committed to participating from a full slate of four or five. Junior Minister for Tourism and Culture, Hon Luce D. Hodge-Smith (R4), said in June 2025 that this was “unfortunately, beyond, way, way, way beyond our control”. 

Following an executive decision, First Runner Up in the 2024 Miss BVI Pageant, Miss Donyelle D. Hodge, was coronated as Miss BVI 2025. 

We have committed to the pageant

Hon Hodge-Smith also said then that it was “simply impossible” to have the pageant with only two contestants. 

However, the sub-committee Chair told our news centre on March 17, 2026, “We have committed to having a pageant this year, even if only 2 contestants have submitted interest in competing.” 

The sub-committee, she added, is also working diligently on securing “attractive prizes to generate more interest”. 

Submit interest via email 

The Miss BVI Pageant is open to Virgin Islanders or Belongers who are unmarried, without children and between 18 to 28 years. 

Interested women are asked to submit their interest via email, following which they receive an application form. 

This form, Hodge explained, “details all the relevant information regarding rules, regulations and pageant policies”. 

The submission deadline is April 17, 2026. The pageant is held annually during the VI's Emancipation Festival. 

See link to related story 

https://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/en/news/no-miss-bvi-pageant-for-2025-emancipation-festival

14 Responses to “'We have committed to having' Miss BVI 2026- Natalie O. Hodge”

  • bvi (19/03/2026, 09:36) Like (15) Dislike (5) Reply
    Why is she still involved after everything
  • %100 raise (19/03/2026, 10:30) Like (4) Dislike (3) Reply
    What is the reason for disqualifying the interested females that is married?
  • jamaica (19/03/2026, 11:06) Like (7) Dislike (9) Reply
    Please let Damian Grange run this show.
  • Guest (19/03/2026, 11:20) Like (9) Dislike (0) Reply
    Was any formal postmortem ever conducted into the collapse of the 2025 pageant? Four contestants were initially confirmed, yet two withdrew at the last minute and the event was cancelled outright. What were the actual reasons for those withdrawals, what internal or administrative failures were identified, and what concrete corrective measures have been put in place to prevent a repeat? Transparency on this point matters, especially now that the committee says it will proceed even with only two contestants.
    • Guest 2 (19/03/2026, 15:06) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
      Transparency on everything matters. BUT Nepotism ripe. Personal ego satisfying decisions ripe. Ignoring the supposed contracts given to the girls ripe. NO TRANSPARENCY

      Governor where are you on a show run through government where girls spend tens of thousands to prepare for only for committee members to rig and jig it
      • @Guest 2 (20/03/2026, 09:50) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
        While the points raised in your first paragraph are thought provoking this is not a matter for the Governor.
    • @guest (19/03/2026, 15:33) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      Excellent points. People need to ask the relevant questions. Sponsors should find out before donating their hard earned money to these shows.
      Why would you run a show with 2 persons? Mek dat mek sense nah!!
  • queen show (19/03/2026, 11:45) Like (20) Dislike (0) Reply
    My memory lane of Miss BVI Queen show - I remember when August Sunday night use to be a big thing. It was not a t-shirt activity for the contestants of choice. It was a dignified royal event, ladies dressed in gowns, spent the day at the hairdressers such as Miss Theo Sprauve (RIP). After the show was a ball, back then either Fort Burt, Stone Haven or Beach Club Terrace and we moved to the sounds of Imaginations Brass, Eddie and the Movements (now Jam Band) and later on Prime Time and Caribbean Ecstacy. The dances finished just in time to change and head to jouvert. Back then the band trucks use to come from different directions and meet together in a clash. In everything there is always one or two trouble makers, but we use to enjoy ourselves. People who could not attend use to be glued to their transistor radio listening to ZBVI to hear what they could not see. The winning queen use to be the Miss Universe contestant back then.

    Now? nothing to compare.
  • NO VILLAGE QUEEN SHOW (19/03/2026, 14:00) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
    PLEASE DO NOT HAVE THE QUEEN SHOW IN THE VILLAGE AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED. WE HAVE PASSED THAT STAGE!! PLEASE AND THANKS!
  • Marty Probasco (19/03/2026, 15:39) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Four or five months before the festive celebration? You all are a day late and a dollar short. Good luck. Our queen show should not be held with two persons only. What nonsense bull is that. No queen show , no festival.
  • jack (19/03/2026, 17:30) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Have the show in the centre please
  • senior (20/03/2026, 09:22) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    What I really want to know can the organizers start the Village on time ad finish during the week by 2am and on weekend by 3 or 330.
  • yese (20/03/2026, 16:03) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    it should be 18-30 y/o
  • Andrea (20/03/2026, 18:13) Like (0) Dislike (2) Reply
    If the committee would like more young women to participate, perhaps the following prizes will ensure you have more contestants:-
    1. Queen can either get a piece of land or property.
    2. Scholarship to their University of choice.
    3. Cash prizes of up to $10K.
    4. 2027 Model Vehicle
    5. Jewellry
    6. Designer Bags, Shoes and Clothing from a Black African
    Haute Couture Designer.
    7. Cosmetic Surgery (Dental and/or BBL)
    8. 1 year Mentorship with an overseas business (Caribbean
    or International Business).


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