Tag: Miss Cayman Islands
US beauty pageant dumps swimsuits
(CNS): Miss America is scrapping the swimsuit section of the competition in order to shift its focus from physical beauty to talent and inner beauty. In a press release Tuesday, the organisation announced “sweeping changes” to where contestants will no longer be judged on physical appearance. Miss World has already eliminated the bikini parade from its global […]
West Bayer takes Miss Cayman crown
(CNS): Anika Connolly from West Bay has been crowned Miss Cayman Islands following the annual national beauty pageant at the Lion’s Centre on Saturday. The 27-year-old, who also won a $70,000 scholarship, will become a tourism ambassador for the islands and will go on to compete in the Miss Universe pageant. However, it is not […]
Cayman urged to vote for Brooks in online pageant
(CNS): Like contestants from all the other small countries, Miss Cayman Islands is at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to the people’s vote in the international pageant, Miss Universe. But the whole country is being urged to go online and show their support for Monyque Brooks in the online poll. Miss Cayman has been […]
Miss Cayman begins battle for pageant crown
(CNS): Miss Cayman Islands, Monyque Roshel Brooks, has begun mixing and mingling with her competition as the preparations for the Miss World 2016 final gets underway in Washington DC. Brooks (25) is one of more than 120 women competing for the international beauty pageant crown in the US capital. Over the next three weeks, ahead […]
Miss Cayman Islands critique
Theresa Cole, a contestant in the 2016 Miss Cayman Islands pageant, writes: The contestants of 2016 Miss Cayman Islands pageant were placed at a disadvantage by the Miss Cayman Islands Committee. We were placed at a disadvantage because we weren’t given the scoring or judging criteria when we first signed up and we were never given any […]
New Miss Cayman crowned for 2016
(CNS): Monyque Brooks (24) from West Bay was crowned the new Miss Cayman Islands on Saturday at the annual beauty pageant at the Lions Centre. Brooks also won Best Gown, Best Smile and Miss Photogenic. The runners up were Erin Hislop and Schilo Scott. However, the People’s Choice Award went to a contestant totally overlooked […]
Miss Cayman’s fire-coral costume heats up pageant
(CNS): Tonie Chisholm has made the finals of the National Costume round at the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas. Miss Cayman Islands and the 80 women she is competing with at the pageant have been going through the preliminary rounds and rehearsals this week ahead of the main event, which will be televised live […]
Misbehaving Miss Cayman dodges duties
(CNS): Miss Cayman Islands has been behaving badly, it appears, as the pageant committee has issued a disciplinary letter to the beauty queen over her conduct and the performance of her duties. Officials from the Miss Cayman Islands Committee are remaining mum on the details of Toni Chisholm’s alleged bad behavior but sources tell CNS […]
Beauty queens hit the road ahead of pageant
(CNS): The ten young women vying for the title of Miss Cayman Islands were on the road at the weekend drumming up support for their bid at the national beauty pageant title. The contest was re-introduced this year after a three-year break due to underfunding issues. With just three weeks to go before the competition, the […]
