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

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

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. 

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