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Ashan­na Arthur will rep­re­sent T&T at the Miss World beau­ty pageant in South Africa in De­cem­ber.

Di­rect­ed by new fran­chise hold­er/di­rec­tor Michael Raghu­nanan, the Miss T&T/World beau­ty pageant was held at Queen's Hall in St Ann's on Mon­day night. De­spite a few set­backs, the evening had a good turnout. Al­so at­tend­ing the com­pe­ti­tion was Pres­i­dent George Maxwell Richards. Each time the con­tes­tants took the stage, it was clear that Arthur was among the favourites.

Arthur con­duct­ed her in­ter­view ses­sions quite well, nev­er fum­bling or fish­ing for words.

She al­so copped the cov­et­ed ti­tles of Miss Physique, Miss Pho­to­genic and Most In­tel­li­gent for the in­ter­view seg­ment.

Her clos­est ri­vals for the evening Ch­enelle Mal­oney, (win­ner of the best evening gown) and Danielle Tardieu-Moze, nev­er backed down, prov­ing that they too, were ca­pa­ble of get­ting the ti­tle of Miss T&T/World.

In the end, how­ev­er, Arthur took the ti­tle.

A spe­cial pre­sen­ta­tion was al­so made by Raghu­nanan to for­mer fran­chise hold­er Pe­ter Elias.

In Elias' ab­sence the award was ac­cept­ed by for­mer co-di­rec­tor Adri­an Ray­mond.