by Eulana Weekes
St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): Two of Nevis’s most coveted beauty pageants, Miss Culture Queen Pageant and Miss Culture Swimwear Contest, return in 2023 for the 49th edition of Culturama ‘The Greatest Summer Lime’.
The Nevis Culturama Festival Secretariat officially released the pageants’ contestants through its social media platforms on Friday night, June 30.
The Bank of Nevis Limited Ms Culture Queen Pageant is slated for August 06, 2023, at the Nevis Cultural Complex at 8:00 p.m.
Vying for the ultimate crown of Miss Culture 2023 are:
The Bank of Nevis Limited Ms Culture Queen Pageant ContestantsContestant #1 Odecia Edwards – Sponsored by S.L Horsfords Company Limited
Contestant #2 Nangela Semple – Sponsored by Nevis Electricity Company
Contestant #3 Nykeisha Henry – Sponsored by Four Seasons Resort
Contestant #4 Kelcy Edward – Sponsored by FLOW
Contestant #5 Celina Brown – Sponsored by St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank
Five beauties are also vying for the FLOW-sponsored Ms Culture Swimwear Contest. It is slated for August 01, 2023, at the Nevis Cultural Complex at 8:00 p.m. The ladies include:
FLOW-sponsored Ms Culture Swimwear ContestantsContestant #1 Shakyra Williams- Sponsored by Nevis Housing & Land Development Corporation
Contestant #2 Nevilla Douglas – Sponsored by StageRight
Contestant #3 Tyanna Richards – Sponsored by Carib Jack
Contestant #4 Vanessa Simon – Sponsored by Flow
Contestant #5 Atalia Newton – Sponsored by Stella’s Engineering
Over the past 49 years, many monumental pageants were held in Nevis to celebrate the island’s main festival.
Lucina Wade was crowned as the first Miss Culture Queen in 1978. Most recently, on July 31, 2022, Chalisa Parris was crowned as Miss Culture Queen; however, she relinquished her reign on September 30 in an official notice to the Culturama Secretariat. A new Ms Culture queen, Shamarley Newton, was crowned on October 17, 2022.
Meanwhile, about 13 years ago, on July 27, 2010, Miss Alsanarda Hanley was crowned the first-ever Miss Culture Swimwear Queen. At the most recent staging of the event, July 26, 2022, Ms Sherquanya Jeffers copped the title.
This year’s slogan for the festival is “49 Years of Mas and Spree, Culturama 2023!”
