The Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go (MWTT) Pageant has an­nounced that the MWTT Tal­ent Com­pe­ti­tion will be spon­sored by top lo­cal en­gi­neer­ing firm, Point Lisas based, D Ram­per­sad & Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (DR­CL).

The Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go Tal­ent Com­pe­ti­tion is a sub-com­pe­ti­tion with­in the Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go pageant and will take place on Sun­day 30 Oc­to­ber 2022 at Es­tate 101 in Mar­aval from 6 pm.

The MWTT Tal­ent com­pe­ti­tion will as­sess the per­for­mance skills of the al­ready cho­sen 17 top fi­nal­ists, cre­at­ing a plat­form and a na­tion­al stage with the girls shar­ing their tal­ent to the world.

Per­for­mances will in­clude song, dance, in­stru­ments, steel­pan and spo­ken word.

Nir­mal Ram­per­sad, Chair­man of D Ram­per­sad & Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed stat­ed that the com­pa­ny has a his­to­ry of not on­ly pro­vid­ing great en­gi­neer­ing tal­ent but al­so has been sup­port­ing the de­vel­op­ment of cul­ture since 1975.

“For the past al­most five decades D Ram­per­sad & Com­pa­ny has been a proud spon­sor of the In­di-Art Band, which has gained tremen­dous pop­u­lar­i­ty and suc­cess over that time. So, when we got the op­por­tu­ni­ty to once again sup­port the Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go Tal­ent Com­pe­ti­tion, we took on the project whole­heart­ed­ly”, Nir­mal stat­ed.

Cross-over artiste Neval B and the mul­ti-award win­ning D Ram­per­sad In­di-Art band, which birthed the Bis­samb­har brand of artistes in T&T, and cur­rent­ly led by Akash B un­der mae­stro Ted­dy Bis­samb­har, will be pro­vid­ing en­ter­tain­ment dur­ing the Tal­ent Com­pe­ti­tion pre-show and at the Miss World T&T Fi­nale.

The ver­sa­tile band will be per­form­ing sev­er­al gen­res in­clud­ing Bol­ly­wood, chut­ney, so­ca, pop, rock, reg­gae and Latin mu­sic.

Charu Lochan Dass, Na­tion­al Pageant Di­rec­tor, said she is ec­sta­t­ic to have both the Com­pa­ny and the In­di-Art Band on board.

“The col­lab­o­ra­tion by D Ram­per­sad and the Miss World Pageant was a great fit. They have sup­port­ed tal­ent and cre­ativ­i­ty over the years and we are hap­py to have the com­pa­ny col­lab­o­rate with the fran­chise this year. The MWTT Tal­ent Show is de­signed to not on­ly show­case the tal­ent of our young girls but al­so help boost their self-es­teem, con­fi­dence, and per­sona”, said Lochan Dass.

“Neval B is al­so one of our up­com­ing stars and we are al­so hap­py to have him per­form on his birth­day at the Tal­ent Com­pe­ti­tion and the Band per­form­ing at the Fi­nale” she added.

Tick­ets for the MWTT Tal­ent Com­pe­ti­tion are priced at TT$150 and avail­able at the door on the day of the event, or via any of the fi­nal­ists.

The win­ner of the Tal­ent Com­pe­ti­tion, as a key sub-com­pe­ti­tion of the Miss World T&T Pageant, will au­to­mat­i­cal­ly move on to the Top Ten se­mi-fi­nals.

The Grand Pageant Fi­nale, where one fi­nal­ist will be cho­sen to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go, will take place on Sun­day No­vem­ber 6, 2022 at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA), Port-of-Spain.