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IDENTIFYING THE BEST

Sep 17, 2011 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

 

 

 

Miss World and Miss Universe pageants represent important opportunities not just for our young women to make a name for themselves but they are also stages for Guyana to become better known throughout the world.
These days there are a number of beauty pageants, far more than there are boxing associations. But the Miss Universe and Miss World competitions are the two that the country should be targeting because these two pageants each attract a world-wide audience of hundreds of millions.
Unknown countries have a chance of gaining valuable exposure while local contestants have a chance of becoming international models and the considerable benefits that go with participation in these pageants.
If Guyana’s delegate wins, then the benefits are increased for both the country and the contestant. As such, both the government and the individual delegates should work together to ensure that Guyana does well in these international pageants.
It has been some time now since Guyana placed in either the Miss World or Miss Universe competitions. And given that these are no longer solely beauty pageants, it means that a great deal more preparation has to be put into these competitions.
The government should make a greater effort at supporting the winner of the national competition so that when the chosen delegate goes overseas she would have a better chance of matching the other contestants since she would have a great deal of resources behind her.
When you look at the quality of the gowns, for example, of the winning contestants, it is clear that they cost a fortune, way beyond the means of the local delegate and her sponsors.
If the local contestants are going to stand any chance of winning any of the major international pageants, they need to have the entire nation behind them and they need to have enough sponsorship and resources that would allow them to match the other contestants.
Angola is not a rich country, but it has won the latest international contest because it has a beautiful contestant who was supported with the resources necessary to gain victory.
Guyana must do the same for those representing it. Those girls representing Guyana must be seen as the country’s ambassadors and must have the entire nation behind them.
But also Guyana must ensure that they have the best contestants identified, and finding the best should involve an early process of identification.
From very young, future prospects for the Miss World and Miss Universe competition should be identified and these young women should be groomed and supported on their way to become Guyana’s representative. Those with potential should be sent to the right schools, right universities, should be constantly trained. In short what is needed is a national pageant school from which the best, brightest and most talented should emerge.
But the net should not only be thrown in Guyana. There are extremely pretty, smart and talented girls of Guyanese ancestry in the Diaspora and they should also be encouraged to participate in national competitions so that whoever is selected to represent Guyana is the best there is.
There is obviously a concern that should the Miss Guyana- World and the Miss Guyana- Universe pageants be opened to too many overseas- based Guyanese, that the local girls may stand very little chance of becoming the country’s representative.
There is the fear that the local may be overshadowed by the overseas-based girls. This is misplaced fear because there are very talented and beautiful and brilliant girls in Guyana who can hold their own, and the competition from overseas- based Guyanese would improve the quality of the local pageants and yield the best delegate.
As such, the participation of foreign-based delegates should be encouraged.
All Guyana needs is to win either the Miss World or Miss Universe once every twenty years.
This is possible but it requires a plan and this plan must involve a national effort aimed to identifying the best and ensuring that the resources are there to support that candidate.

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