Guyanese model among top three for Elite competition in Shanghai

Guyanese model Amanda King leaves for Shanghai on Tuesday having placed among the top three at the Elite Caribbean model competition in Trinidad and Tobago on November 12.

According to a press release from CEO of Guyana Fashion Weekend, Sonia Noel, who attended the T&T final, King will be joined by Krystal Benjamin from Antigua and Shenika Fernandes of Trinidad.

Amanda King

They were selected after having competed against models from Barbados, Haiti, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada at the Caribbean final at the Hyatt Regency in T&T.

King and Niketa Barker had won the top spots here, from among some 50 models who showed up for the casting at the Pegasus Hotel, and had gone on to the final.