THE NEXT GUYANESE AMBASSADOR

Jul 04, 2009 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

Whoever is chosen to represent Guyana at the Miss Universe final is expected to be an ambassador for your country. That person will not only be representing herself, but also the country from which she originates.
It is therefore important that the person who wins the Miss Guyana Universe title be someone who can make Guyana proud, and to this requires that the person be clearly able to articulate her platform and knows a great deal about her country as well as be able to answer questions on wide range of subjects because at the Miss Universe, it is the delegates themselves who pick the questions and therefore the Guyanese representative must be able to answer whichever question is posed to her.
She must be able to impress the judges with her knowledge of the subject under question and to do so fluently and in a refined manner.
Based on the answers during Wednesday night’s telecast of the Interview Section of the Miss Guyana Universe Pageant, I wish to emphasise once again the importance of delivery. I did not hear all the contestants. But from what I heard, many of the girls ought not to have been vying for the Miss Guyana Crown.
I am sure that there were others whom I did not hear, but who answered their questions with the intelligence and refinement that one expects of a future ambassador of Guyana. I am sure of that. But what I am concerned about is that so many of these girls were unable to provide satisfactory answers in most instances relating to their platforms.
There obviously needs to be a more thorough screening process before girls are allowed to enter into a competition like this. While things such as figure and beauty are often taken as the standard benchmark for prequalification, from the few interviews that I managed to hear, I believe that greater attention needs to be paid to the intellectual aspect of the competition because, as I said, many of those that I heard, not all, would embarrass this country if in the globally televised Miss Universe Pageant, they gave some of the answers the likes of which they provided on Wednesday night.
It will take months upon months of training to improve some of the speaking skills of some of the girls and much longer to provide them with the sort of education that would be needed to handle the testy and diverse questions they would be asked in the Miss Universe Competition.
We have beautiful women in Guyana. And all the girls that I have seen are beautiful and have great figures. I am amazed at the conditioning of these girls. They sure look good. But they also need to sound good and to be intelligent if they are to stand a chance of advancing to the final fifteen or twenty in the global competition.
In many parts of the world, especially in Venezuela, these competitions are taken very seriously. Beautiful girls are prepared from a young age. Great detail is paid to their education, their training and their general preparation.
We need to begin to do the same in Guyana and to ensure that we have young ladies who are adequately prepared before they are allowed to enter these pageants. We need to identify the talent early and to groom these future contestants from a young age so that when they hit the international, or even the national stage, they will not disappoint.
Finding suitable candidates for these competitions should not take place only in Guyana. We need to canvass the Diaspora where there are many beautiful and intelligent young ladies. I was disappointed that in the Miss Guyana Universe we did not have contestants from the New York, London and Toronto area where large Guyanese populations reside.
I want to believe that if ten contestants could have been had from outside of Guyana, it would not only have made the competition more interesting, but also more one-sided because I would gamble a wager that the foreign-based Guyanese girls would sweep most of the top prizes in any national beauty pageant.
This is not to put down the local girls. I believe we have a great deal of beautiful and smart girls in Guyana who can compete with the best in the world, but I also believe that there is a greater need for better screening and preparation for these pageants.
We would want Guyana to be represented by the very best and therefore we should spare no pains in ensuring that this is done.

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