Tya Jané Ramey, Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go jets off to the in­ter­na­tion­al pageant this week, in New Or­leans, USA, to meet 89 oth­er del­e­gates from around the globe to en­gage in an im­mer­sive ex­pe­ri­ence that will change her life for­ev­er. No stranger to in­ter­na­tion­al pageant par­tic­i­pa­tion, hav­ing copped the Miss Caribbean World ti­tle back in 2019, she still ex­press­es new-found ex­hil­a­ra­tion to her next ven­ture.

This year’s pageant is clos­er to home, be­ing staged at the New Or­leans Ernest N. Mo­r­i­al Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, on Sat­ur­day 14th Jan­u­ary, in a city that boasts of eclec­tic, plur­al his­to­ries not dis­sim­i­lar to ours. She is par­tic­u­lar­ly ex­cit­ed to go out there to share our unique melt­ing pot cul­ture and wave the red, black and white, proud­ly.

Tya Jané takes her role of am­bas­sado­r­i­al agent quite se­ri­ous­ly, supreme­ly con­scious of her task of na­tion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion, honed even be­fore her pageant life, hav­ing played vol­ley­ball at in­ter­na­tion­al tour­na­ments. She is tru­ly an emis­sary, of mag­nan­i­mous pro­por­tions, uti­liz­ing her plat­forms to em­pow­er oth­er young women, pro­vides hope for the voice­less and en­treat des­ti­na­tion mar­ket­ing strate­gies.

Let’s get to know Tya Jané Ramey

Tya Jané Ramey is a two-time na­tion­al beau­ty am­bas­sador. Her ti­tles in­clude; Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go 2022, Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go, and Miss World Caribbean 2019. She is cur­rent­ly earn­ing her Mas­ters de­gree of So­cial Work and holds a Bach­e­lors of Sci­ence and cer­tifi­cate in So­cial Work and So­cial Pol­i­cy. She has ded­i­cat­ed her life to be­ing an agent of change which is re­flect­ed in her cur­rent ca­pac­i­ty as a chil­dren’s ser­vices as­so­ciate in the Child Jus­tice Uni­ty of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty, and in her work as an ex­ec­u­tive ad­min­is­tra­tive co­or­di­na­tor for the Caribbean Re­gion­al Youth Coun­cil.

Ramey fre­quent­ly works with com­mu­ni­ty-based and NGO or­ga­ni­za­tions, and even pi­o­neered her own hu­man­i­tar­i­an project ad­vo­cat­ing for Venezue­lan mi­grant chil­dren.

Ramey cred­its her phi­los­o­phy of ded­i­ca­tion and dis­ci­pline to her over five-year ex­pe­ri­ence as a na­tion­al vol­ley­ball ath­lete and her abil­i­ty to be cre­ative to her back­ground as a dancer and sax­o­phon­ist. She has a pas­sion for com­mu­ni­ty, cul­ture, trav­el, and food. She hopes that whether she’s on the vol­ley­ball court, the run­way, or the in­ter­na­tion­al stage, she has the im­pact to cre­ate a bet­ter world and a brighter fu­ture.

Suc­cess­ful State Vis­it to An­tigua and Bar­bu­da

Just back from a State Vis­it to An­tigua and Bar­bu­da where she was court­ed by the Tourism Au­thor­i­ty of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, up­on in­vi­ta­tion to par­tic­i­pate in a fash­ion show­ing by An­tiguan-based Trinida­di­an Uber-styl­ist, Van­da Neale-Gard­ner, and held court with a cou­ple of cre­ative agen­cies ex­press­ing her de­sire for more in­te­gra­tion among the Arts, in the Caribbean.

Woo­ing re­gion­al sup­port as she read­ied her­self for par­tic­i­pa­tion at the up­com­ing Miss Uni­verse show­case, this trip was suc­cess­ful in gar­ner­ing added sup­port, elic­it­ing en­cour­ag­ing clam­ours of ‘do it for us all in the re­gion’. An­tigua and Bar­bu­da does not, at this time, par­tic­i­pate in the Miss Uni­verse Pageant. Richard Young, who craft­ed the vis­it and served as her chap­er­one, was thrilled to see our del­e­gate in her el­e­ment,

And what a whirl­wind vis­it it was with VIP re­cep­tion at the VC Bird In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, cap­tured as a main fea­ture of the 7 o’clock evening news, the very day. Ra­dio and tele­vi­sion in­ter­views in­tro­duced her to the pub­lic, at large, cli­max­ing with the ex­clu­sive fash­ion show­ing where she demon­strat­ed her stel­lar run­way tech­niques and poise.

Oth­er dis­tin­guished com­mem­o­ra­tions dur­ing the vis­it were be­ing a spe­cial guest, at the ex­hi­bi­tion of fore­most vi­su­al artist Heather Do­ram; a con­fer­ence with the Ho­n­ourable E P Chet Greene, Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs and In­ter­na­tion­al Trade; and a vis­it to the CARE project for Dis­abled Chil­dren, in keep­ing with her so­cial plat­form for this year’s pageant.

The next grand stage – Miss Uni­verse 2023

With 2 na­tion­al ti­tles and one re­gion­al ti­tle al­ready un­der her belt, her fran­chise hold­er Ste­vie Jones and his dili­gent team are elat­ed by her in­domitable spir­it to get the job done and take up the man­tle of na­tion­al ser­vice du­ti­ful­ly. Richard Young speaks of his pro­tégée with awe, ad­mi­ra­tion and ac­co­lade, “she is a con­sum­mate del­e­gate whose im­pact and in­flu­ence is so rel­e­vant in a post-COVID, em­pow­er­ing-women space.

As a mod­el, he con­tin­ues, “she is a chameleon with such grace, poise and el­e­gance. I had to do an in­ter­ac­tive pho­to shoot, with ed­i­to­r­i­al aplomb, to show­case her ver­sa­til­i­ty and panache!” We ca­vort­ed around Red­cliffe Quay and Her­itage Quay, down­town St John’s, ‘makin’ style in gar­ments from the in­com­pa­ra­ble Halt fash­ion show, held ear­li­er on in her so­journ.

On be­half of the team at WE, let’s send-off our Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go, Tya Jané Ramey to Miss Uni­verse with ut­most con­fi­dence in her suc­cess, May you fly high in life and achieve vic­to­ry in every en­deav­our you set your heart to!

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