PAM sponsors Barbados trip for Miss St. Kitts-Nevis World
Venetta Zakers to make presentation at Caribbean Fashion Awards

By Suelika N. Creque
Editor-SKNVibes.com

Miss St. Kitts-Nevis World Venetta Zakers receiving her donation from the People’s Action Movement leader, Lindsay Grant

Zakers’ trip was made possible through a donation from the People’s Action Movement, which took place yesterday (Apr. 8) at a simple ceremony in the office of the political party’s Leader Lindsay Grant in the presence of Gloria Esdaille, the chaperone of Miss St. Kitts-Nevis World.

While in Barbados, Zakers is expected to make a presentation at the Awards ceremony.

Grant said he is hoping that Zakers’ presence at the Awards would help expose nationals of St. Kitts and Nevis and make the Caribbean more aware of the Federation.

“Miss Zakers is a young and upcoming model and I’m hoping that the added exposure will help further her career,” he said.

Grant also congratulated Eversley Liburd and Joan Mailliard on securing the Miiss World franchise and requests that every Kittitian and Nevisian should support Zakers in her quest.

“As Kittitians, we salute Eversley Liburd and Joan Mailliard in securing the Miss World Franchise and helping to push our Federation more towards the center of the world’s stage.
They must both be proud of themselves as we are of them. 

“Every Kittitian should rally behind Miss Zakers in her road to victory and we should all assist Eversley and Joan in whatever little way we can. It is not an easy road, as Miss Zakers will be in South Africa for a whole month. She will need financial assistance. When I read the article on SKNVibes that Eversley and Joan were staging the Jamaican Comedy Show, Bashment Granny, to raise funds for Miss Zakers and learnt that there was no sponsor, I could not just sit by and do nothing considering that this is a cause for all Kittitians and Nevisians”.

Zakers thanked Grant for providing her with the opportunity of being a part of the major Caribbean event.

“The Caribbean Fashion Awards will give me lots of exposure and I will use the opportunity to provide regional and international media houses with  information on the pageant we recently held in St. Kitts and Nevis, and that our Federation will be participating in the Miss World Pageant,” she said.

Zakers will be leaving the Federation tomorrow (Apr. 10) and is scheduled to return on Monday, April 13.

While in Barbados, Zakers will be the guest of Barbadian designer Pat Blackman whose designs she will don during her stay on the island.

Blackman was also the designer assigned to Zakers during the Miss St. Kitts-Nevis World Pageant held on March 7 at the St. Kitts Marriott Dome.

The Miss St. Kitts-Nevis World Committee is also soliciting funds from individuals who are willing to contribute to Zakers participation in the Miss World Pageant, which will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Interested persons are asked to get in contact with the committee.

The second annual Caribbean Fashion Awards (CFA) will be held under the theme “Fashion is Our Passion”. In a previous interview with SKNVibes, organiser Rodney Powers said that this year’s event would be bigger and better.

Powers is the President of Unique Productions Worldwide, a Barbados-based fashion event production company that is organising the event.

Unique Productions Worldwide has a strong commitment to developing the creative industries and brands in Barbados and within the Caribbean.

The event will be hosted at the Hilton Hotel in Barbados on Saturday, April 11 and will feature most of the Caribbean’s fashion icons and fashionistas.

Powers said the event was conceptualised to award all practitioners and specialists who have given time and contributed to the Caribbean Fashion Industry.

“It was also created to showcase the best in the Caribbean to the international market as we bring the international media to the Caribbean,” he stated.

At the inaugural CFA, St. Kitts was also up for awards in likes of its top design house Brown Sugar Inc., which was nominated for a Best Caribbean Designer (female), and St. Kitts Fashion Weekend, organised by Eversley Liburd, for the Best Fashion Show or Week award.