Twenty-five-year-old Naomi Samuels of Santa Aratack Mission, Region Three beat nine other contestants to take the crown in the Amerindian Heritage Pageant 2011 hosted on Saturday night.
Samuels and the others vied for the crown before a packed audience at the National Cultural Centre including Prime Minister Samuels Hinds, Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai, Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir and Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Norman Whittaker.
According to a Govern-ment Information Agency (GINA) press release the pageant was the fusion of a diverse number of