The Miss Earth Guyana Organisation has selected former contestant Cintiana Harry as Miss Earth Guyana 2020 after taking the decision to postpone the holding of a new pageant until next year.
The organisation on Friday said the coronation was cancelled due to the high risks of social gathering during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
In a statement, the organisation said Harry was signed as Miss Earth Guyana 2020, while noting that she was “rightfully” next in line for the selection after her outstanding performance during the 2019 Miss Earth Guyana Competition. Last year, Harry was crowned as the first Miss Eco-Guyana and the Miss Earth Organisation said that the other pageant is significant to its brand.
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Harry, in a Facebook comment, said,” my heart is filled with excitement. I am extremely happy to be given the opportunity to continue to help make the world greener using the prestigious title of Miss Earth Guyana 2020.”
She added, “I would like to thank Guyana Premier and the entire Miss Earth Guyana team. Thank you for believing in me and selecting me as Miss Earth Guyana 2020. I say, thank you to all of you for your continued love and support- I’ll need it more than ever now to fulfill the mandate of this title. It is an honour! As a strong and confident woman, I am determine to be an earth angel, to be the protector of mother earth and to be the voice that can stay strong in helping to build a better tomorrow.”
The Miss Earth Guyana organisation noted that the participation by in Miss Earth marks the first time that Guyana made it to the semifinal.
Meanwhile, the organisation also announced the appointment of Dr Omesh Balmacoon as the franchise’s new National Director. Dr Balmacoon, it noted, served as the brand’s Managing Director for the period 2017 to present.
In a comment to this newspaper, Balmacoon said that he is quite familiar with the inner workings of the pageant itself and what it stand for. He explained that in past years they were able to accomplish a lot, and that the national competitions have proven to be fruitful.
Balmacoon further said that last year’s local pageant winner Faydeha King made Guyana proud when she made it to the semi-final of the Miss Earth competition, a first in the pageant’s 19 years, and he hoped to continue with the momentum.
“It is an absolute honour to have the torch passed to myself, and I know that with the support of our new team, which will be revealed in the next few days as well as the support of all Guyanese, we can do even greater things, [with] our first line of business being the international Miss Earth title,” he said.
