By: Drizel Hanley
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Friday 14th December 2018)– Carnival Village in Warner Park came alive on Sunday 9th December for the staging of the second annual Miss Phenomenal Pageant won by Shirmel Freeman.
At the end of the highly competitive show, Freeman outdid the other four (4) competitors and won the Introductory Speech segment and Best Onstage interview.
She also won the award for best photo shoot.
Carol Rouse was adjudged First runner up and also received top prize for Best Evening Gown and Swimwear Segment.
She also won best t-shirt design and received the chairperson’s award.
Sasha Johnson placed Second runner up.
Best Talent, Photogenic and Miss Amity was awarded to Shukwonda Winter.
Joann Mcsheen also participated in the competition.
The show was hosted by Cuttoe and Kwesha and saw entertainment from Young Genna and Big Tune Karaoke.
Founder of the Miss Phenomenal Pageant, Karen St. Juste, told this media house that the show, now in its second year was a success.
“I would say that we hosted a successful event; the crowd was larger than last year and the show in general ran very smooth”, she said.
St. Juste further noted that she started the pageant to empower women.
“A part of me always want to empower women. I started on Facebook by ‘bigging’ up a woman per day. Then one day I just decided to host a pageant to uplift women and I began executing it”, she added.
The Miss Phenomenal Pageant founder said that preparations for the third staging of the show is already underway and she plans to do it bigger and better as it grows from strength to strength.