Sto­ry, pic­tures by

In­nis Fran­cis

Fol­low­ing a night filled with tal­ent de­spite many dis­rup­tions, the Point Fortin Bor­ough Queen Show crowned a win­ner.

Dr Tehilla Jef­fery, the daugh­ter of for­mer Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for La Brea, Fitzger­ald Jef­fery, was crowned the Bor­ough’s 43rd Queen.

The show was held at the Point Fortin East Sec­ondary School to a sold-out au­di­ence.

Nine del­e­gates en­ter­tained in swimwear, per­formed a tal­ent, pa­rad­ed in evening wear, and the fi­nal five an­swered the Q&A seg­ment.

The many lulls dur­ing the five-hour show left a bit­ter taste in the mouths of pa­trons, some asked for a re­fund of their en­trance fee and some cheered to ini­ti­ate that the show be re­sumed.

The tal­ent seg­ment, where most of the de­lay oc­curred, re­mained part of the show as, ac­cord­ing to the host, Travis Joseph, “the girls in­vest­ed too much mon­ey and time in­to that seg­ment.”

As the show pro­gressed, the tal­ent seg­ment held pa­trons high­ly en­ter­tained.

Dr Jef­fery emerged on the shad­owy stage all set to de­liv­er and she even­tu­al­ly de­liv­ered a song made pop­u­lar by Amer­i­can singer Jen­nifer Hud­son, One Night On­ly.

The au­di­ence was seem­ing­ly placed in a trance when the Ves­signy beau­ty com­plet­ed the song and left the stage to thun­der­ous ap­plause and a stand­ing ova­tion.

Dr Jef­fery said she re­cent­ly com­plet­ed a de­gree to be­come a doc­tor.

In the tal­ent seg­ment of the com­pe­ti­tion, some of the del­e­gates touched on so­cial is­sues and la­bels, and women who were sub­ject­ed to do­mes­tic abuse.

Oth­ers paid trib­ute to note­wor­thy women like Singing San­dra, Be­y­once, and icon­ic ca­lyp­so­ni­ans from Point Fortin.

At the show’s end and in the spe­cial award seg­ments, Dr Jef­fery took home the best tal­ent award.

Dar­nel­la Joseph won Best Physique, Peo­ple’s Choice, and Miss Pho­to­genic.

Aaliyah Ed­mund won the best evening gown and the most im­proved del­e­gate seg­ment.

The best in­tro­duc­tion was award­ed to Emer­ald Ed­wards and the most ded­i­cat­ed del­e­gate and friend­ly friend was Fran­cois.

Run­ning first and sec­ond run­ners up to Jef­fery were Tine­ka Fran­cois and Dar­nel­la Joseph re­spec­tive­ly.