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Monday, July 21, 2025

Point Fortin crowns its Carnival Queen

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Kevon Felmine
1989 days ago
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Point Fortin Carnival Queen Alysha Wilson with Point Fortin Mayor Kennedy Richards Jr., left, and councillor Reynold ‘Hippo’ Carrington.

Point Fortin Carnival Queen Alysha Wilson with Point Fortin Mayor Kennedy Richards Jr., left, and councillor Reynold ‘Hippo’ Carrington.

Kevon Felmine

T&T’s Car­ni­val is syn­ony­mous with mas in Port-of-Spain, but the spir­it of the sea­son was present on Sat­ur­day night when the Bor­ough of Point Fortin crowned it’s fifth Car­ni­val Queen.

For the eight del­e­gates who lit the run­way at the Egypt Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, it was not just about good looks and physique.

It was about be­ing an am­bas­sador of cul­ture and com­mu­ni­ty spir­it, and no oth­er ex­em­pli­fied this than Miss New Lands/Ma­haica Alysha Wil­son.

As with most pageants, the judges looked for a mix­ture of beau­ty, brains and tal­ent and found it with the 23-year-old Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies stu­dent. Cur­rent­ly en­rolled in a BSc in Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence with a mi­nor in In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions, the Ma­haica beau­ty was able to man­age her stud­ies while en­gag­ing in com­mu­ni­ty work.

Wil­son was a clear win­ner af­ter tak­ing the prizes in the cat­e­gories: Ms Car­ni­val Spir­it, Best Swim­suit, Best Gown, Ms El­e­gance, Peo­ple’s Choice and Ms In­tel­li­gence.

“This pageant has been a beau­ti­ful ex­pe­ri­ence. It has helped my growth and de­vel­op­ment as a young woman in Trinidad and To­ba­go and as I move for­ward to rep­re­sent the coun­try in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. I am just very thank­ful and I would like to tell all young women out there to nev­er give up. You can do it, keep push­ing, any­thing is pos­si­ble with God,” Wil­son said.

She will now rep­re­sent T&T against 65 oth­er coun­tries at the Miss Sea Beau­ty In­ter­na­tion­al pageant in Bar­ran­quil­la, Co­lum­bia from No­vem­ber 24-De­cem­ber 1.

Miss Cap-de-Ville Leslie-Ann Meade was the first run­ner-up fol­lowed by Miss Point Liguore Ce­line Bona­parte.

Pageant di­rec­tor Yolan­dra John said the show was not on­ly about show­cas­ing the Bor­ough’s beau­ti­ful women but pro­vid­ing them with a wealth of knowl­edge. This was done through the com­mu­ni­ty work they had to car­ry out with the coun­cil­lors of the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion and their in­volve­ment of com­mu­ni­ty ac­tiv­i­ties.

“This year, we looked for an in­di­vid­ual who worked in their com­mu­ni­ty so that they can be an am­bas­sador of good­will,” John said.

The del­e­gates were judged on evening wear, swim­suit, knowl­edge and their por­tray­al of Car­ni­val cos­tumes which were spon­sored by Lega­cy Car­ni­val. So im­pressed was Lega­cy’s band leader Michael “Big Mike” An­toine that he of­fered all the del­e­gates free cos­tumes for his band’s 2020 pre­sen­ta­tion, Amour.

The top five, in­clud­ing Karen Fay Ram­per­sad and Akee­nia Sin­clair, were in­vit­ed to the semi­fi­nal rounds of the Miss Supra­na­tion­al T&T pageant which will be held lat­er this year.

The pageant fol­lowed Fri­day’s launch of the Bor­ough’s Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions at the Vic­tor Chin Kit Park.


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