GUYANA CHRONICLE: SIXTEEN-year-old high school student Candacie Charles swept the Miss Guyana World competition Sunday evening, becoming the first ever national beauty queen of her age.Charles, an intern with the government Information Agency, was crowned amid a glittering gala affair at Buddy’s International Hotel.As per Miss World requirements, she has to be 17 to compete at the With young beauty queens having a successful run at international pageants, like Aishwarya Rai, who was crowned Miss World as a teenager, and Amelia Vega, crowned Miss Universe while yet in school, can Candacie turn fortune on Guyana’s side?
She wrote the Caribbean Secondary education Certificate exams offered by the Caribbean Examinations Council this year and is awaiting results.
Candacie held her forte with the judges right through the competition with a radiant personality throughout the two and a half hour competition. An average teenager, she loves ice cream and chocolates, but cannot sleep without reading every night.
Her strongest competition for the night was Radha Charran, a Senior Audit Clerk with the Guyana power and Light, who towered physically over the other contestants and delighted the judges with a pleasant personality. She was chosen to represent Guyana at the Miss Intercontinental pageant.
Pageant enthusiasts would know that India’s Lara Dutta won the Miss Intercontinental Pageant in 1997 and went on to win Miss Universe in 2000, so Radha’s second prize is by no means of lesser magnitude.
Candacie took the edge over her in the final question. The teenager was asked who was her greatest role model and why. With girlish charm, Candacie revelled in admiration of her mother, saying her only prayer is to inherit half the strength of her mother.
Radha was asked how she would sell Guyana to the world, but she might have faltered in confidence and was not as smooth in delivery. She answered the question by saying that she would promote mainly the country’s endearing hospitality.
There should have been three finalists in the end, but the judges had a tough task of deciding who should go, and so put four finalists to answer a last question. Those two were Pamela McLean and Shammain Richmond.
Pamela, with a stunning face, could have eased her way to the crown, but failed to display the charm and radiance necessary for a national beauty pageant. You almost had to beg a smile out of her! Ah, too bad.
Richmond, who won the Best Smile prize hands down, failed in delivering a sound answer to her final question, and that put her as third runner-up, Pamela taking the edge for second-runner-up.
Sareeka Singh was included among the top five finalists.
The others who competed were Zameena Khan and Leshaun Morgan.
The judges for the competition included Kingsley Thorne of Miss Barbados World and Universe, designers Sonia Noel and Donna Ramsammy James, and chief judge, Pamela Dillon, who manages the Miss Guyana Talented Teen Pageant.
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