Miss St Joseph-Tani­ka Du­ri­ty, 24, and Yya Jane Ramey-Miss Five Rivers, 21, were named top model and best tal­ent del­e­gates re­spec­tive­ly in the Miss World seg­ment com­pe­ti­tion.

Both del­e­gates emerged in the top three of the com­pe­ti­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Na­pari­ma Bowl on Sun­day.

Du­ri­ty, who works as an event and en­ter­tain­ment plan­ner, wowed the judges dur­ing the Tal­ent and Top Mod­el seg­ment but man­aged to stand out in the lat­ter to earn her top points and a bet­ter chance at grab­bing the Miss World ti­tle.

Ramey, who holds a BA in so­cial work and so­cial poli­cies, al­so charmed the judges dur­ing the tal­ent seg­ment as she played the sax­o­phone and per­formed a con­tem­po­rary danced. Her points can al­so ben­e­fit her in the fi­nals of the com­pe­ti­tion.

The two young women will go for­ward in­to the lo­cal leg of the Miss World com­pe­ti­tion on June 16 with point ac­crued from this phase of the pageant.

The ten as­pir­ing young women show­cased cloth­ing from three South­ern de­sign­ers; Chara Lochan Dass (CLD), DADL by Deron Attzs De­sign La­bel and Daronte fol­lowed by their tal­ent of choice.

Elite Plan­ners Lim­it­ed who runs the Miss World com­pe­ti­tion lo­cal­ly is spear­head­ed by Dr Reiaz Mo­hammed and Bri­an Gopaul.

This is the 69th an­nu­al Miss World com­pe­ti­tion, where one of the lo­cal beau­ties will be cho­sen to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go on De­cem­ber 7 in Thai­land.

Gopaul said the seg­ment was just a way to give the peo­ple of south Trinidad an ex­pe­ri­ence.

He said: “We mir­ror the events of Miss World. In the in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion, there is Top Mod­el, tal­ent, sport and fit­ness and mul­ti­me­dia seg­ments. What we do is in keep­ing with the com­pe­ti­tion, but we had to sep­a­rate it be­cause on the night the show will run too long. It was a way to be able to en­joy high fash­ion in a very pres­ti­gious way. The top (win­ners of the cat­e­go­ry) will give them a high­er score to­wards the fi­nals on the night of the pageant,” Gopaul said.

Run­ners up in the mod­el cat­e­go­ry were Lau­ra-Lee Williams-Miss Ch­agua­nas and Tya Jane Ramey-Miss Five Rivers.

In the tal­ent seg­ment, Ramey emerged win­ner while run­ners up were Du­ri­ty and Shali­ni Soo­chit- Miss Cara­pichi­ma.