When it comes to pageantry, the perception is that it’s a woman’s thing. But Devon Mark Hernandez knows otherwise. He is Guyana’s representative to the 2013 Mr Teen United Nations Pageant billed for Cancun, Mexico from July 1 – 8 and he is 110% confident that the international title will be his.
He does have the number one rank for People’s Choice Awards with 860 votes ahead of his nearest competitor, Ojo Ganju Adewale of Nigeria with just 461 votes (at the time of this interview last week).
Born at the Kwakwani Hospital on Boxing Day 1992, Devon grew up in Aroaima – a small bauxite mining community a few miles from Linden in the Upper Demerara-Berbice Region. He described it as a small, friendly community that did not have much going on.
He moved to Georgetown at the age of eight and was mesmerized by the city’s ‘fast life’.