Miss Global International Guyana Poonam Singh keeps it real

(Photo by Shamer Hescott)

The first time we heard of Poonam Singh, she was just 15 years old and a finalist in the GT&T Jingle and Song Competition. Poonam really wowed the judges and the audience, but she eventually lost out to Brandon Harding of Linden.

 Miss Global International Guyana 2016 Poonam Singh
Miss Global International Guyana 2016 Poonam Singh

Clearly 2011 was not Poonam’s year, but 2016 so obviously is. Poonam has been selected to represent Guyana at the Miss Global International pageant, which is scheduled to be held in Mauritius. After being held in Jamaica for ten years, the pageant was held in Trinidad and Tobago last year and is now billed for Mauritius.

Poonam’s platform for the pageant is ‘Eradicating Suicide’ and it was chosen by the Miss Global International Guyana team, since it is an area that Poonam has been targeting on Facebook. Sometime ago, she had posted a video of herself on