Miss Cultural Heritage to be chosen on Thursday
In case you haven’t noticed, September is just around the corner. Tonight Ann-Marie looks at one upcoming event that should get the celebrations off to a rousing start.
Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting
It’s the season of pageantry and celebration, and one activity which usually kicks off the carnival season, is the Miss Cultural Heritage Pageant. It takes place at the Belize City Centre on Thursday.
The fifth annual event, put on by the Cultural Heritage carnival band, has all the trappings of a beauty pageant and more; so says Christine Trench, co-ordinator.
Christine Trench, Co-ordinator, Miss Cultural Heritage
“How they display the costumes, because carnival is all about movement, how they move across the stage, how they dance the music, the rhythm, the dancing that they do. It’s how you work the costumes that determine it, carnival is working your costume.”
And eight contestants representing various business houses will certainly have to work their costume to capture the attention of the judges.
Jemnye Alvarez, Contestant
“I just decided I wanted to go up there and try to become Miss Cultural Heritage
Ann-Marie Williams
“So winning is important?”
Jemnye Alvarez
“Yes.”
Agnes Novelo has been preparing for this moment for quiet some time. However, unlike Alvarez, it’s not about winning.
Agnes Novelo, Contestant
“Just for the fun of it. Not to win or anything, just to have fun within it.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“So you don’t want to win?”
Agnes Novelo
“Well if I win I don’t mind. If I win, I’ll just enjoy the winning of it.”
Christine Trench
“This person will be a representative for the band, and if any of our sponsors need any advertisements done or anything that they want the band to do, the Miss Cultural Heritage will represent the sponsor. She leads the carnival in one of our…we only have five of these costumes to the front and she gets the one exactly to the front leading the carnival.”
Hortense Carcamo, a student of U.B. feels she has what it takes to be the next Miss Cultural Heritage.
Hortense Carcamo, Contestant
“Have self-esteem and show your beauty that you have and also your talent.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“Don’t you think all the girls have beauty, confidence, self-esteem and talent? What will separate you from the rest?”
Hortense Carcamo
“The way I perform that night.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“And how are you planning to perform?”
Hortense Carcamo
“It’s a secret, I don’t want to say. But I will go on bad.”
Kimberly Flowers, Contestant
“It will give me a higher self-esteem and people everywhere in my society and beyond will respect me for who I am. Going into the pageant they will see what I can do.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“What can you do?”
Kimberly Flowers
“I can dance, model and do a great performance where entertaining is concerned.”
And where entertainment is concerned, the audience will be treated to Cultural Heritage’s pick of the costume crop for Carnival 2001, as the girls will model them in the costume segment of the pageant. Ann-Marie Williams for News 5.
Tickets for the Miss Cultural Heritage Pageant are on sale at ten dollars reserve, five general and three dollars for children. Pick them up at Record Shack and Stone’s Recording Studio.
