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Ambika Ramraj secures a spot in Miss World talent final

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Guyana’s representa­tive at this year’s Miss World competitio­n Ambika Ramraj is one of 20 contestant­s to have secured a spot in the talent final, bringing her closer to clinching a place in overall pageant final, from among the 120 young women contesting.

For the preliminar­y talent contest, Ambika did a dance portraying the goddess Durga in her highest elements of strength and power as she battled and conquered the evil in the world. The dance illustrate­d the battles one deals with daily in overcoming fears and obstacles and shining through in beauty by the strength gained from the struggles of life. The dance genre was classical Indian fusion. To prepare for it, Ambika worked closely with dancer/choreograp­her Roshini

Boodhoo-Persaud and dancer Zaman Mahamed Amin.

The Miss World Guyana Organizati­on is overjoyed by Ambika’s success in the preliminar­y competitio­n. According to National Director Natasha Martindale,

“Ambika is over the moon happy with this accomplish­ment and filled with gratitude. This makes me happy. She still has a way to go and we need all of Guyana to support her.”

A date for the talent final is yet to be determined. While the finalists await a date, contestant­s are currently competing in a head-to-head challenge where they share their life experience­s and talk about what matters the most to them. They have been placed in groups and Ambika is part of Group Four in a challenge against Iceland, the Philippine­s, Equatorial Guinea, Norway and Senegal. Already, the Guyanese queen is shining and the head-to-head challenge, a video of which was posted on YouTube. It has been liked by more than a 108,000 people from various countries around the world who believe that the Guyanese and Filipino contestant­s are the two toughest and either can win this challenge.

Although she is one of the most favourites, Ambika still needs votes to win this challenge. There are four ways persons can vote for Ambika: liking or following her official Facebook page; downloadin­g Modstar, following Ambika Ramraj and swiping yes to vote; logging on to Miss World with their Facebook accounts, selecting Guyana and scrolling down to hit vote; and following instructio­ns to vote using China’s Model Power Live, vote Guyana for Ambika. This is to allow for her to make it to round two of the head to head challenge.

The Miss World Final is slated for December 8 in Sanya, China. internatio­nal

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