Since the conception of Miss Global International Beauty Pageant in 2004, the franchise has been operated successfully by the company’s Chairman Mr. Lachu Ramchandani, OD, JP. However, like many businesses, the pageant was severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in the cancellation of the show for two consecutive years.
However, in a Mckoy’s News exclusive interview, Mr. Ramchandani assured the public that, with Covid-19 cases under control, the next scheduled show is slated for September 2022.
“In regards to the Covid we had lost a lot of calls. We had like 14 countries that were ready to come but most of the countries last year that wanted to come were from Africa…China, Malaysia, Vietnam and those places. But with the virus just coming into the picture last year, we were reluctant about bring anything into the country so we decided to postpone it for this year. Even though we had [two hotels] on board and the date was finalized for September last year [2020], we had to cancel it…”
“…So the next date is slated for September 2022 but we are going to start working on it by end of the year when we know everything has come to normal…then we are gonna’ go as far as 50 countries and we are going to go very big!” Ramchandani stated.
The Chairman further explained that with an increase in the Covid cases in several countries, including countries in which contestants were expected to arrive from, he did not want to put other contestants’ health at risk while simultaneously placing the pageant in a negative light.
“This year again we decided to go through it with the same month… same sponsorship was on board…but because it takes [some] months to prepare an international show, when we decided in April/May when we saw that things are looking a little better that if we [should] do it, we can’t do it before November/December…and when I look at the number of countries [that want to participate] and are still going through this virus, I was reluctant… So I said it’s best to take a break again for this year [2021] and wait until next year when everything is back to normal then we do it with a big bang;” stated Mr. Lachu.
With the pageant’s theme “Uniting the World through Beauty and Tourism,” Mr. Ramchandani explained that the month of September is always strategically chosen to help fulfill the aim of such theme.
“We always try to do it in the slowest time of the year when hotel industries are very slow because for all hotels in Jamaica, in September is the slowest month. So it’s the best time to bring in like 500-600 tourists from abroad and fill up these hotels…in that area and bring some excitement into the town for tourism and so on. They also bring in a lot of internationally media as well so that’s also selling [Jamaica] and that’s our theme “Uniting the World through Beauty and Tourism;” he explained.
