Twenty-four-year-old aspiring legal professional Tahje Bennett was topped by Miss Jamaica World at The Jamaica Pegasus resort on Friday evening. Bennett replaces the 2022 queen Shanique Singh, the islands second-longest reigning Miss Jamaica World.
That is Bennett’s second time getting into the Miss Jamaica World pageant, having first entered in 2022.
Twenty-one-year-old aspiring actuary Jamila McGowan was named first runner-up and Shanelle Kellyman, a 25-year-old inventive within the occasion and advertising and marketing business, was second runner-up.
Bennett additionally gained the Magnificence with a Function fast-track competitors and the Multimedia sectional award for her initiative geared in the direction of empowering girls and younger women, notably those that have skilled gender-based violence, Kellyman, winner of the Expertise Quick-Observe, was named Most Poised.
Different sectional awardees included Lianne Fullwood, Most Congenial; Nikayla Davis, Greatest Persona and Shanae Brown, Greatest Smile.
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Within the lead-up to the competitors, Chris-Shann Grant took high honors for the Health Problem; Aliah Clark, Prime Mannequin Problem and Brown, the Swimwear Competitors.
Bennett will characterize Jamaica on the 72nd Miss World Competition in early 2025.
The reigning Miss World is the Czech Republic’s Krystyna Pyszková.
As of 2019, Jamaica has the excellence of getting 4 magnificence queens which have gone on to win Miss World crowns. Jamaican contestants which can be Miss World title holders are Carole Joan Crawford in 1963, who was additionally the primary girl of shade to win the competitors; Cynthia Jean Cameron Breakspeare (Cindy Breakspeare) in 1976; Lisa Hanna in 1993; and Toni-Ann Singh in 2019. Toni-Ann Singh was the longest reigning Miss World within the pageant’s historical past, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
