Daena Soares is Jamaica’s New Miss Universe 2021

Jamaica has a brand new Miss Universe for the 2021 staging of the pageant. She is Daena Soares, a 22-year-old graduate of the College of the West Indies, who was topped over the weekend.

Soares was chosen by the pageant judges from a subject of 9 different contestants on October 31, 2021, on the Riu Montego Bay Lodge in St. James on the Seventieth staging of the occasion.

Trishanie Weller, Miss HTG Engineering Consultants Restricted, was named first runner-up and Lauren Much less, Miss Donna’s Caribbean Restaurant, the second runner-up.

The 22-year-old, who wore the sash Miss Icon Megastore and held the Miss Universe Jamaica Central title, was topped by Miss Universe Jamaica 2020 Miqueal-Symone Williams.

Soares hails from Jamaica’s Breadbasket Parish, St Elizabeth and was not too long ago awarded a bachelor of fundamental medical sciences from The College of the West Indies. She took house two sectional prizes — Most Photogenic and the Congeniality Award, which she shared with Weller.

Commenting on her win, Daena Soares, a medical aesthetician, instructed The Gleaner Aptitude,“I’ve been watching pageants for therefore lengthy, and you recognize you all the time think about how would I be if I used to be up there and I used to be topped. I actually didn’t count on to cry, I didn’t actually count on to be shocked, however I discovered myself every time it was being introduced, you recognize high 5, high three, I used to be simply so overwhelmed… It felt so superb, and I used to be simply so overwhelmed.”

A previous pupil of Hampton Women Faculty in S. Elizabeth, Soares acted on the recommendation of her father and entered the pageant.

“I consider pageants additionally afford girls the platform to actually develop themselves and to assist to develop their communities. So, I need to implore all the ladies on the market in the event you’re all in favour of becoming a member of a pageant, please do. It’s an incredible alternative,: she mentioned.

Soares mentioned she has a ardour for girls’s affairs and plans to channel her power in that path throughout her reign.

“Properly, my platform is all about advocating for disenfranchised girls and ladies. My present focus is teenage being pregnant and it’s so rampant right here in Jamaica. I need to goal these younger girls as a result of typically they fall off the tracks of society, and I believe it’s so necessary to assist them reintegrate as a result of I believe that ladies can really assist to develop our society way more,” she defined.

Soares, who’s from a big household of three older sisters and two youthful brothers, described herself as a “bookworm”. She was additionally an avid swimmer whereas attending highschool.

Soares will compete for the Miss Universe 2021 title on the pageant’s Seventieth-year milestone staging in Israel this December.