Talya “Mizzy” Pantophlet was crowned the Miss Mature Carnival Queen 2022 on Monday evening. Story on page .
POND ISLAND–Talya “Mizzy” Pantophlet has been crowned Miss Mature Carnival Queen 2022.
Five contestants took the stage Monday evening.
Pantophlet won the competition with a total of 798 points. Miline Gumbs placed first runner-up with 748 points and Jessinia Lazzaro placed second runner-up with 732 points.
Pantophlet also captured the titles of Miss Amity, Miss Photogenic and the St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) Community Award. In the judged categories she won Best Speech, Talent, Headpiece and Evening Wear.
Gumbs captured the title for best Question/Answer Segment. Lazzaro won Best Creative Cultural Wear of the evening. Contestant number three, Marie Claire Langlais, won the Community Awareness segment.
A popular topic of the evening was the highlight on mental health and mental illness in our community. Three contestants touched on this topic in the talent segment. Pantophlet won Best Talent with an expressive dance depicting the darkness and light of mental health. This was well received by the crowd.
The Teen and Senior Carnival Queen competitions take place at Carnival Village on Tuesday.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/talya-mizzy-pantophlet-crowned-miss-mature
She is very beautiful, but so are all the contestants, and in fact all people have in one way or the other something that’s beautiful. There were many who called these events meat championships and anti-women.
Few said that it resembles the Roman phrase of “bread and circuses” or “bread and games” as it’s also translated somewhat liberally. Like medieval carnival it is supposed to be a lightning rod, to divert any thoughts about inequality, poverty or the lack of power. To prevent revolt, uprisings or a large-scale revolution.
But as many have written, the prosperity on our island is relatively too high for a revolution. And that’s exactly what the white men and women in The Hage are aware of. “Give them as much food as necessary not to die, but never any power to choose their own destination” .