Winner of the Ms Bartica Regatta Pageant Ava Hicks was not surprised when the results were announced on Sunday evening. Hicks, 19, believed she had the crown in the bag from the moment she entered the competition.
The pageant was held at the Bartica Community Centre as part of the three-day Bartica Regatta celebrations. Hicks, along with eight other contestants from in and around Bartica competed for the crown, but she was confident from the start that she was going to win the competition. “I don’t think I had any competition,” the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) student, however, said after being crowned.
All smiles and with only the support of her sister, Annice Hicks who was last year’s winner, Hicks said that her
