T&T’s Venezue­lan-born del­e­gate for the Miss Grand In­ter­na­tion­al Pageant in Viet­nam, Milei­dy Mat­er­a­no, has stepped down from the com­pe­ti­tion.

Her at­tor­neys an­nounced in a news con­fer­ence to­day that she will not be go­ing to Viet­nam to rep­re­sent T&T next month be­cause of a prob­lem with spon­sor­ship.

Mat­er­a­no’s vic­to­ry had been heav­i­ly crit­i­cised be­cause she is a non-na­tion­al.

How­ev­er, the pageant or­gan­is­ers had stood by her, not­ing that she had met all the en­try re­quire­ments.