BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TAMARA DORSET of Constituency Six was on Saturday night (May 2) crowned the 2009/2010 Miss Labour Queen at Carnival Village.
Dorset’s consistency, along with capturing Performing Speech, afforded her the opportunity to capture the crown from among a field of eight contestants.
The First Runner-up position went to Constituency Number Three’s Britney Liddie who also captured the Best Talent and Evening Wear segments while the Creative Wear segment was won by Second Runner-up Trishna Casey of Constituency Number Two and the Third Runner-up position went to Constituency Number Seven’s Sudine Clarke.
The show featured much excitement and creativity from the young ladies, especially during the Creative Wear and Talent segments.
Outfits for the Creative Wear were made from almost anything one can think of including spoons, plastic rum bottles, coconut and its flowers and plastic pop bubbles.
In winning the Creative Wear segment, Casey wore a wedding dress made out of cucumber, tomato and lettuce, with lettuce as her bouquet of flowers, while Dorset’s creative wear was also impressive as she wore a wedding gown made out of toilet paper.
The Talent segment also brought great surprises as Dorset’s entrance to the stage was heralded by fireworks that left the audience momentarily spellbound. She depicted a lady who has travelled and seen many places but depicted that none could compare to her lovely St. Kitts.
The winning talent was depicted by Liddie who utilised the performing arts well by mixing drama and dance. She spoke about people blaming the Prime Minister for everything that goes wrong within the country and questioned what groups and individuals were doing to help the situation. Her talent ended with a dance to Michael Jackson’s ‘Man in the Mirror’ which not only won the judges appreciation but also the crowd’s approval.
Another memorable depiction of talent was when Casey, the Central Basseterre representative, did her own version to past National Calypso Monarch, King Ellie Matt’s ‘Mocazeema’.
Casey said that the People’s Action Movement rejoiced and felt that Constituency Number Two belongs to them in the next election since Dwyer Astaphan resigned, but that would not happen.
“Man gone, woman yah, in yuh mocazeema, Dwyer gone, Marcella yah, in yuh mocazeema…,” she sang.
The contestants also addressed the crime situation which is plaguing the society, as their Performing Speeches were created with that theme in mind.
The event also featured a wonderful sideshow including impressive performances by a dance group named H2O, former National Queen Mauriece Roberts, the Okolo Tegremantine Dance Theatre and the first ever four-peat Calypso King, Konris Maynard.
Maynard performed three of his popular songs including ‘Aging Wine’, ‘Talk, Talk, Talk’, and a ballad rendition of ‘Feeling good’ (It must be in the water).
Royalties, the house band for the night, also performed exceptionally well and entertained everyone when one of the female lead vocalists serenaded Prime Minister Denzil Douglas while performing Buju Banton’s ‘Sleepless Nights’.
Rae-Dawn Thomas the 2008-2009 Queen, who hails from Constituency One, took her final walk Saturday night.
Following the show, Jamaican Reggae Princess Etana gave a splendid performance with her popular hits before the large and appreciative crowd.
Among her renditions were ‘Wrong Address’, ‘Crazy Love’, ‘Warrior Love’, ‘Roots’, ‘I am not Afraid’ and a taste of one of her recent releases, ‘Blessings’, that also features fellow Jamaican artiste Alborosie.
During her performance, Etana explained that although her hair was not in locks she was indeed a child of Rastafari.
“I am not gonna put no fake locks pon my head; it is all in my mind,” she said.
Her sentiments were similar to a former hit by Morgan Heritage, ‘Don’t Haffi Dread’, which said “Don’t haffi dread to be Rasta, this is not a dreadlocks thing, divine conception of the heart”.
Etana performed for about 30 minutes and the show ended a few minutes after 2:00 a.m.
