Ashanna Arthur has won Miss Trinidad and Tobago for Miss World 2009

New York resident...I think Ashanna is very beautiful and well poised. We here in NY beleives she can do us proud at the Miss World 2009 Pageant in South Africa... Congratulations!!

I am disappointed in this year's selection for Miss World, Ms. Arthur is not Miss World material, her features are very heavy and her photo on Globalbeauties.com is not easy on the eye. We can do better.

To Liz and Khadja, I am a fan of both Ms. Universe and Miss World since the early 1970s. As a teenage of the 1970s, I don't used Euorpean standard to measure the beauty of TNT women, for they are the most beautiful women in the world, Penny, Giselle, and Wendy are living proof. Ms. Arthur needs to win the Beauty with a Purpose, if she hopes to advance into the top ten. I read it, as I see it. She is not Ms. World material, just take a look at Ms. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago past title holders. It is all about winning the CROWN, babies!

Ashana is very deserving of representing Trinidad and Tobago. She has beauty with her purpose and I believe she would do us proud. She is unique, intelligent and a non-typical "beauty queen". I support you all the way.......

For those who were actually at the show it was clear that she rightfully won that show.... She is/was the most ready and with a little work she should do great. Good Luck girl!

Who are you to be judging this girl when you yourself cannot even construct a simple sentence. You definitely need to go back to school.

A better girl could have been selected. I'm sorry that the new franchise holder would be blamed for what was clearly poor judging.... She can't compare to some of our past Miss TnT/World delegates. Physically, she's not attractive and there's nothing stellar about her intelligence or personality...

hey.....everyone....i personally believe that Ashana won fair and square as she was overall good ........however i agree that she might not shine on an international stage..........i know this photographer who judged the ms. photogenic he had to be stark raving mad to give ashana the title...that should have gone to sunita dairam....i also believe that nadiege should have won miss intelligence and be in the first three....no way danielle tardieu moze should have come in the first three....... chenelle maloney could have won but she kept going on and on and on during question time and couldnt stop...........it must be known that the lady who trained these girls rehearsed the interview section before hand, so the delegates knew how the interview was coming....this was a recipe for disaster because some delegates mainly chenaka dramatized her answers.....questioning should be spontaneous. Judges sometimes spoil our chances in winning or placing...i remembered when giselle la ronde had the franchise for a short period they chose the most horrific delegate to represent us one year even the lady was shocked that she won the local pageant the night for the show.............. when you are chosing a delegate the first thing is to make sure the delegate can shine on stage...intelligent yes....but you dont have to be educated to be intelligent...........peo ple are so fooled with a degree in this country ...i may be wrong but penny didnt have a degree when she won ...giselle la ronde either........and many delegates who made it in the past in the semi finals of both competitions also, including Michele khan...not having a degree didnt stop them from shining.....The esteemed judges decided so whether or not i will be supporting our representative....Ashana all the best.....my pic in the first five for miss world was nadiege.....though....... ... people we need to support our representative to the ms. world pageant 2009 ....u never know..................... ........... good luck again ashana and take that dress you wore but change the hairstyle take care

That show was sum good crap....We should have sent no one....

LMAO HAHAHAHAHAHAHA , "WHAT IS THAT T&T SENDING TO MISS WORLD?"

YES PLEASE TELL ME...WHAT REALLY IS THAT...I SHAME!

For Mr. Pepito "ashana girl u go and shine and if u dont daz ok u did yur best" clearly this is such a foolish statement. This is why our country is the way it is.... only now the international stage will have to see how much political interference takes place in such a small island. THIS IS A MISS WORLD PAGEANT!!! if u don't shine daz ok u did your best??. Based on the judging I feel that they think the same way. Why does Venezuela not think the same? why are they a country known for wining? why do they train their young women so well that they are known for their beauty? Why has there never been an unattractive Miss World or Miss Universe? These local judges needs to wake up. Also the persons training the girls is supposed to take raw talent to a perfection of high standard, therefore a girl seeming to have a flare but rough around the edges but gorgeous like Nadiage and Chenelle should be trained further we can polish a dull surface with time but we cannot erase unattractiveness does not matter the amount of make up. Trinidad has lots of beautiful young women. Ashana representing this country looking like that... will not give the impression that this country has indeed beautiful women at all!! it may also state that the beautiful women if we have are all FOOLISH and unintelligent and this is NOT TRUE. Ashana could PERHAPS be a wonderful human resource officer, a fantastic economist even a great coordinator NOT A MISS TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO BEAUTY QUEEN TO REPRESENT US. What amazes me is the fact that women like Ashana do not know their place! and somehow love to partake in events that are unsuitable for them. To make it worse the Judges encourage this type of foolishness by without thinking long term allowing them to win. Now all girls in this country who are not pageant material may now think that they can enter ....and even win....but base on the public respond(thanks for this) they will think twice .
The true beauties however may hesitate to enter because of fear that they would not be placed from what has been done by these local Judges. Nadiege is one good example, I am wondering how she felt. This was to be an event where the girls can look back and feel proud of .....I think that for many of them it would be a nightmare more so because of the Choice also no gifts when they have worked so hard and probably put out whatever little money they had to enhance their appearances . I love my little Island in the sun..... but the mentality of these so called judges oh my.....the mentality of the photographer in this contest, takes away the joy of honesty, the joy of a deserved excitement in the land stemming the decision of an important competition. Instead a poor girl is being mislead a girl who certainly now have to undergo the disrespect, disregard and anger of the public bad statements, all because of the irresponsibility of the people who are placed in charge, the people who abused their privileges that night but she is also has to take some blame for entering in the first place. I have to also wonder if the Franchise holder was not aware that giving ashana all those added trophies e.g one undeserving which she received (most photogenic) would have given her extra points. Maybe this is what caused her to have more points that the other girls. If they had split fairly these trophies and given fairly some to Nadiege, Sunita, Tova, all would have gone the way it should have... honest and professional by the way I did not see chenelle maloney receiving her best in evening wear trophy on the event itself..... we had to learn about this from the news papers but ashana got all of hers on the night itself for all to see. Another BAD THING IS THAT THE NATION NEVER GOT TO SEE THE OTHER CONTESTANTS ON THE NEWS PAPER THE FAMILY OF THE OTHER GIRLS DESERVED TO SEE THEIR CHILDREN ON THE NEWS PAPERS AS TIME WENT BY IF NOT THE FIRST DAY BUT FOR THE WEEKEND THERE WERE ABSOLUTELY NONE SHOWN OF THE OTHER GIRLS!!! as it is clear that maybe the camera personnel (who were many) ......when they saw the reality for example that the first runner up looking more like the queen they did not want to further add insult to injury...but the whole of Trinidad except for of course the family and friends of Ashana is upset by this choice. When you take the facts into consideration and add up the friends and family against a whole country the voice of the people is the voice of God.

this is hilarious you can tell all the people who likes her, are her friends or either went to school with her. They're just showing her support...but girl Ashanna ummmmmmm (speechless) lol

Is she related to GUNZO on the Muppet Show, oh what a BIG NOSE is better we send MISS PIGGIE!!!

hey guys i saw that every paper had the first and second runners up faces showing bold and nicely all three together, for the public viewing. I am still to see the faces of the first and second runners up for the miss world in the news papers... what a shame!!! that All the papers that following, day felt the need to show only ashana.... and half the faces of the other two kissing her.

I agree that her looks don't reflect classic western beauty as such, but she has large eyes and an interesting face that certainly insn't ugly and that a photographer would love to photograph. with the right lighting she would have amazing photos. The fact is the girl won, she's smart ambitious, polite and seemingly friendly enough. The most we as a country can do is support her. No one on this blog is a professional judge or has access to the requirements sheet. either she wins or she doesn't, if not, we have next year, and then we'll know better what not to look for and what to look for. It's only petty to call her names, especially as few of us on this blog may know her personally. She's only 21 and very excited i'm sure, I think this will be a good experience for her and i'm glad to see the local pageant industry getting back in the game. Besides, i think she has an uma thurman- esque quality (my opinion--breathe, take it easy), similar big widely spaced eyes and full lips. beautiful in an interesting way.

hey is anyone following up the miss world events... did Ashanna Arthur get in the top 15? :-) I saw those beauties who did and Miss Mexico is stunning ....

Gabby your comments make good reading but you fail to be realistic as to why many of the public were/are upset. It is simply that Ashanna should not have been selected nor should she have even entered in this type of event. I believe that she is indeed a nice person special in her own way but take for instance the williams sisters , they are champion tennis players , why do they not go up for Miss universe I will answer because that is not their cup of tea, they are smart and for this reason successful. Why did Micheal Jordan not take up a career in being a jockey ? simply because he would have been to tall so what did he did he used his hight to his advantage and it paid off...No one is disputing the fact that Ashanna is not born out of love or someone's daughter those statements sounds like really close family statements even if you do not want us to know it is my opinion.

I am looking at the latest events and comments now, and the favorites are Puerto Rico and Mexico the girl from Barbados also looks nice where is Ashanna??? It goes without saying she WAS NOT TO BE REPRESENTING TRINIDAD and as stated previously the false hope by relatives and friends will do her any good, as she will be reminded by this experience (bad one) for all of her life. At the end I see that this is not about talent etc one bit... those two women( puerto rico and mexico) are very beautiful and they stand out so tell me that this beauty with a purpose is not a joke in itself. I hope the franchise holder learn from this huge mistake.