Miss Mara­cas Val­ley Achè Abra­hams, Miss Ari­ma Jemi­ma Pierre, and Miss Ply­mouth Karielle Rams­den were crowned the top three win­ners of the Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go Top Mod­el Com­pe­ti­tion, spon­sored by Toy­ota Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed.

Miss Morvant Brenique Richards  design by UniquleyU

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The win­ner of the MWTT Top Mod­el Com­pe­ti­tion will be fast-tracked to the top ten se­mi-fi­nal­ists and an­nounced at the Grand Pageant Fi­nale which takes place on Sun­day No­vem­ber 6 at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA), Port-of-Spain.

Miss Palo Seco Tianna Corrie design by Neha Karina

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Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go (MWTT) Sat­ur­day Oc­to­ber 15 saw the top three win­ners of its Top Mod­el Com­pe­ti­tion, spon­sored by Toy­ota Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed, at the Toy­ota Show­room South Park, San Fer­nan­do crowned.

Miss Arouca Tinesha Willliams design by Khalisha Khristi

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The win­ners were, in no par­tic­u­lar or­der, An­hasi Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Miss Mara­cas Val­ley Achè Abra­hams, Fit­ness Cen­tre Miss Ari­ma Jemi­ma Pierre, and Brix Au­to­graph Miss Ply­mouth Karielle Rams­den.

Miss Maracas Valley Ache Abrahams design by Tobye Gill

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The state­ment said the win­ner of the MWTT Top Mod­el Com­pe­ti­tion will be fast-tracked to the top ten se­mi-fi­nal­ists and an­nounced at the Grand Pageant Fi­nale which takes place on Sun­day No­vem­ber 6 at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA).

The 17 MWTT Top Fi­nal­ists were judged on con­fi­dence, stage pres­ence, el­e­gance and car­riage of their out­fits.

Miss Princes Town Anjali Ramkissoon, design Stepehn Bassanio

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The state­ment said the 17 MWTT Top Fi­nal­ists donned swim­suits fash­ioned by Re­sort-Wear De­sign­er Brand Rhion Ro­many and High Fash­ion pieces pro­duced by Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Top Lo­cal Fash­ion De­sign­ers, in­clud­ing Shaun Grif­fith Perez, To­bye Gill, Heather Jones, Chan­dra Ma­haraj, Clau­dia Pe­gus, Zadd & East­man, Lisa Sargeant Gon­za­les & Lisa Faye, Ra­jen­dra Sa­hadeosingh, Saleem Samuel, Kasa’s De­signs, Stephen Bas­sanio, Khal­isha Khristi, Ne­ha Ka­ri­na, Ty­ron Kerr, Uniqu­leyU, Do­minique LA Roche and Daronte Guade­loupe.

Miss Claxton Bay Janelle Pirmal design by Zadd and Eastman

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Daronte Guade­lope was cho­sen as the Top De­sign­er of the MWTT Top Mod­el Com­pe­ti­tion with a cus­tom-made dress made from Bridal Satin and hand paint­ed with acrylic fab­ric paint.

It con­sist­ed of a busti­er, an eight-pan­el gore coat and paired with bell trousers. It was made with over 10 yards of fab­ric and meant to evoke “re­gal­i­ty” and epit­o­mize el­e­gance and so­phis­ti­ca­tion.

His de­sign was worn by Top Fi­nal­ist Fit­ness Cen­tre’s Miss Ari­ma Jemi­ma Pierre.

Miss Cunupia Dania Duntin design  by Lisa Sargeant

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The state­ment quot­ed Charu Lochan Dass, Na­tion­al Pageant Di­rec­tor and Fran­chise Hold­er who said her vi­sion is to pro­duce the best pos­si­ble del­e­gates to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go on an in­ter­na­tion­al plat­form and cre­ate role mod­els for so­ci­ety.

“I can safe­ly say at this junc­ture we have ac­com­plished both.

Miss Chaguanas Gabbi Pope  design by Shaun Griffth Perez

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This ob­vi­ous­ly was achieved by sheer hard work and train­ing. Our 17 fi­nal­ists went through six weeks of train­ing with the likes of Richard Young who taught them Chore­og­ra­phy and De­port­ment; Adri­an Ray­mond who trains them with the Ques­tion and An­swer seg­ment, Lisa Ghany on Pro­to­cols, Din­ing & Eti­quette and a se­ries of oth­er train­ing ses­sions which in­clud­ed Ba­sic Me­dia Train­ing, Stage pres­ence and Pre­sen­ta­tion, Fit­ness, Pho­tog­ra­phy Pre­sen­ta­tion and Make­up Ap­pli­ca­tion just to name a few.”

Miss La Horquetta Nattola Williams design by Kasa Designs

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Lochan Dass ex­plained this trans­for­ma­tion is a cul­mi­na­tion of hard work and ded­i­ca­tion not just from the Pageant train­ers and the or­ga­niz­ing team, but more so from the girls. She said, “The pas­sion and ded­i­ca­tion and the will­ing­ness to learn is what these young women brought to the ta­ble, and they cer­tain­ly did not dis­ap­point. It’s re­al­ly a heart-warm­ing ex­pe­ri­ence to see the meta­mor­pho­sis.”

Lochan Dass was full of praise for Toy­ota T&T Lim­it­ed, SM Group, Trinidad Tourism Lim­it­ed, The Min­istry of Tourism, Arts and Cul­ture, Sacha Cos­met­ics and spe­cial per­former on the night Col­lege Boy Jesse as well as the judges.

Miss Arima Jemima Pierre, design by Daronte Guadeloupe, winner of the night’s designer award.

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The judg­ing pan­el for the MWTT Toy­ota T&T Top Mod­el Com­pe­ti­tion com­prised the fol­low­ing: Rana Ibrahim, Bari Khan (Toy­ota), Richard Young, Adri­an Ray­mond, Phae­dra Adele, Charu Lochan Dass, Giselle Laronde West, Sham Mo­hammed, Dr Reiaz Mo­hammed and Ashvin Bal­ly.

In at­ten­dance were Ju­nia Re­grel­lo, May­or of San Fer­nan­do, for­mer in­ter­na­tion­al star crick­eter Bri­an Lara, Ryan Latchu, Pres­i­dent Toy­ota T&T, and reign­ing Miss World T&T 2021 Jea­nine Brandt.

Miss Plymouth Karielle Ramsden design by Dominique La Roche

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The hosts for the evening were for­mer Miss World T&T Del­e­gate Jyn­nyn Ed­wards and Ja­son Williams, both of whom are ra­dio and tele­vi­sion an­nounc­ers.

The MWTT Beau­ty with a Pur­pose Com­pe­ti­tion will be held on Thurs­day, Oc­to­ber 27 at the Brix Au­to­graph, and the MWTT D Ram­per­sad & Com­pa­ny Ltd Tal­ent Com­pe­ti­tion will take place on Sun­day, Oc­to­ber 30 at Es­tate 101 in Mar­aval.