Miss Earth Guyana contestants stun in talent, costume
The Miss Earth Guyana preliminaries were held at the Aracari Resort last Saturday night, where the seven finalists gave of their best in the talent and costume categories. Performances displayed vigour, gracefulness and poise.
The night began with Katyana Ross doing a dance which led into a song by Mohan Singh. Francina Lanferman and co-host Mohan Singh then invited the contestants who briefly introduced themselves with the Dynamic Tassa Troupe as background accompaniment.
While the contestants prepared to get back onstage to do their talent pieces, Lashaunda Browne serenaded the audience with her rendition of Adele’s “Set Fire To Rain”.
The first contestant up was Gabriella Chapman who did a spoken word piece, before lifting up her mesmerizing voice in song, but each girl brought stiff competition, none could really outdo the other in this category. Anasa Williams who came next give a splendid cover of “One Moment in Time”. Oriana Castello switched things up when she did a dance to Beyoncé’s “I Was Here”. Luann Pellew took the audience by storm when she began her spoken word piece, but unfortunately, she had a memory block and to the audience’s dismay was unable to finish. Contestant number five, Akiesha Payne came like a force with her dramatic poetry. Anita Baker did a fusion of spoken word and a soulful dance to Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song”. Xamiera Kippins finished this category with her hypnotic contemporary dance to “This Bitter Earth” and with every move enthralled the audience.
Bringing the audience back out of their trance from the talent category, Mohan Singh did a cover of the Indian hit song, “Kya Hua Tera Wada”.
The next item on the programme had the audience up and about rocking with laughter. Five slips of papers were left under selected seats and those who found them were automatically winners. Three of these winners walked away with prizes from the pageant’s official sponsor, DemBake while the two holding slips that said Aracari Resort won a weekend for two in a luxury deluxe room inclusive of all meals, free WiFi, secured parking and access to the pool and gym.
For the costume category each contestant was expected to come up with their own superhero, whose purpose would also resonate with that of Miss Earth.
Gabriella was ‘Iridescence’ – this hero is said to exude love, class, sophistication, firm principles, confidence and power and is one whose purpose is to protect the minerals of Guyana. Her costume sported a cape, symbolic of her ability to soar as gracefully as an angel yet mighty as a horse. Her chest, embellished with beads and stones, represented the abundance of minerals in Guyana. The iridescent colour choice represented variety and diversity while her bodysuit was made of cracked ice hologram fabric to express the hero queen’s appreciation for challenges.
Queen Amazonia Kaieteura was what Anasa became in this category. She’s a unique character who is said to live in the canopy jungles using her wings to trap greenhouse gases and converting them to usable oxygen. She has what is called the Kaieteur