Matthew Chin

Re­porter

matthew.chin@guardian.co.tt

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar joined the list of cit­i­zens con­grat­u­lat­ing Miss T&T World Aché Abra­hams on her achieve­ments at the 71st edi­tion of the Miss World Pageant in Mum­bai, In­dia, on Sat­ur­day.

Row­ley con­grat­u­lat­ed the 24-year-old on his Face­book page, post­ing a pic­ture of the trail­blaz­er with a cap­tion which read: “Thank you for rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go with such class and poise!”

Al­though Miss Czech Re­pub­lic Krysty­na Pyszková was named Miss World 2024, Abra­hams gained not on­ly the ti­tle of Con­ti­nen­tal Queen for the Amer­i­c­as and Caribbean re­gion but the coun­try’s grat­i­tude and sup­port go­ing for­ward.

On her In­sta­gram ac­count mean­while, Abra­hams shared a pho­to of her­self sur­round­ed by fam­i­ly, friends and Giselle Laronde-West, who was the first Trinida­di­an woman to be crowned Miss World in 1986, fol­low­ing the end of the com­pe­ti­tion on Sat­ur­day.

Thank­ing Larond-West, Abra­hams said, “You are the epit­o­me of grace, beau­ty, in­spi­ra­tion and in­tel­li­gence. Thank you for rep­re­sent­ing us so gra­cious­ly. You have opened doors for women like me and it was an ho­n­our to con­tin­ue your lega­cy.”

Com­ment­ing on not bring­ing home the top ti­tle, Abra­hams said she was not dis­mayed.

“I may not have got­ten the crown, but I’ve gained so much grat­i­tude for who I have around me and the coun­try that I tru­ly love. Peo­ple of T&T, thank you for be­ing part of my jour­ney and your con­tin­u­ous sup­port. I will for­ev­er rep the red, white and black!”

Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so post­ed a pho­to of Abra­hams to her face­book page with a cap­tion read­ing: “Aché, your achieve­ment is one of the best things to hap­pen to Trinidad and To­ba­go in a long while, we cel­e­brate you and thank you for in­spir­ing all of us, es­pe­cial­ly the young peo­ple of our coun­try to be a voice, an ad­vo­cate, and an ex­am­ple for oth­ers to fol­low! You up­lift­ed our na­tion and brought im­mense na­tion­al pride at a crit­i­cal and dif­fi­cult time in our na­tion’s his­to­ry. Keep be­ing that bea­con of hope and the light that dis­pels the dark­ness.”

Abra­hams made the top four in the Miss World com­pe­ti­tion and copped the ti­tle of Miss World Amer­i­c­as and the Caribbean.

Abra­hams, along­side Miss World Pyszková, Miss Lebanon Yas­mi­na Za­y­toun and Miss Botswana Lesego Chom­bo are now sched­uled to head to Mau­ri­tius as the pro­mote the pageant’s ob­jec­tive world­wide.

The date of Abra­ham’s re­turn to Trinidad and To­ba­go has yet to be an­nounced.