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PRESS ARCHIVE
Press Release: October 26, 2009
CICCETSS 2009 crowns 9
Class 2009/10 Culture and Charity Queens and honours 3 new Community Champions
with IVHES Awards.
A sensational welcome speech, by The Worshipful The Mayor of Redbridge,
Councillor Thomas Chan, Dip HE BA (Hons) FRSA, officially opened the Evening
of cultural awareness and community cohesion promotion at the exquisite London
Borough of Redbridge Town Hall venue on Saturday 24th October 2009. The
Mayor's speech, thunderously applauded by the quality audience of dignitaries
and the finest citizens of all nations, set the scene for the delivery of the
Evening's most entertaining programme which was electrifying from start to
finish.
The highlights included the annual friendly contest between national cultural
and charity queens of Commonwealth and other nations for the world's nine most
prestigious ambassadorial title crowns for the promotion of community
Quality of Life improvement, the presentation of International Voluntary
Humanitarian and Environmental Services (IVHES) Awards to nominated community
champions, and exhilarating cultural performances by star solo and group
artists that brought the roof down.
Resounding public praise from the audience included
acclaims of the CICCETSS as "a fantastic show", "absolutely fabulous"
and "simply the most accomplished international cultural and charity show,
ever...!", etc. As usual, the CICCETSS proved to be the world's No. 1
quality of life improvement promotion programme and a promoter of the most
entertaining and productive culture and charity pageant.
Nine new fabulous international queens and three new celebrated community
champions are the major products of this year's CICCETSS.
The CICCETSS Management wishes to thank The Mayor and Madam Mayor for their
patience while they endured the delayed start of the programme caused by
unexpected staff absence, and for gracing the occasion by their attendance.
The Management also wishes to thank the panel of judges, presenters,
back-stage staff, media partners, musicians, dancers, stage engineers,
technical staff, photographers, choreographers, caterers, venue security
staff, coach and limousine service providers, IVHES Awards recipients, ushers,
and the quality audience, among others, for their contributions to making the
CICCETSS event so successful and enjoyable. The show was a huge
success, maintaining its usual inimitable stylish charm, despite the
recession's conspiracy against contestant attendance figures this year.
The Mayor's Message:
Dear Friends
A warm welcome to you all for
coming to the Commonwealth International
Cultural and Charity Evening
TV-Special Showcase 2009 event.
I am delighted that this year
this Commonwealth event is being held here
in the London Borough of
Redbridge. As the first Chinese Mayor in Britain,
I am proud to be able to
represent all the people of Redbridge.
We have residents of many
nationalities and cultural backgrounds. There
are over 100 languages spoken
in the Borough, so we are already very
diverse in Redbridge. Tonight
we will be even more diverse.
The organisers of this event
say they aim to promote a sense of community
among people from different
countries and cultural heritage. On that basis,
I am pleased to be able to
attend and lend my support.
As well as raising money for
charities, the programme also promises to be
a great family entertainment
giving us a taste of the Commonwealth, in all
its diversity and colourful
cultures. I am sure that you are as pleased as I am
to be in the audience
tonight.
I hope you will all join me
in wishing the Commonwealth organisers every
success and in hosting a
successful evening and supporting a necessary and
deserving cause.
With my best wishes
Cllr Thomas Chan
Mayor of Redbridge
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The Mayor and Madam Mayor were graceful and very
popular with the audience, all of whom wanted to be photographed with them.
Here are some photos of the attraction:
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SHOW TIME
The Class 2009/10 Cultural and Charity
Queens crowned ambassadors
 
From left:-
Miss
Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic
- Veronica Khosa
& Miss
Commonwealth International Runner-Up
Miss
Commonwealth Asia-Pacific
- Attika Choudhary
Miss
Commonwealth Africa
- Amaka Oguchi
Mrs
Commonwealth International
- Alison Jayne Taylor
Miss
Commonwealth International
- Joanna Peagram
Miss
Teen Commonwealth International
- Elisa Bolli
Culture
Queen Of Friends Of the Commonwealth - Bonnie Cooper
& Miss
Commonwealth International Runner-Up
Queen Of
Friends Of the Commonwealth
- Karina Dempster
Miss
Commonwealth Caribbean - Lynne Bennett
THE TRIPLE CROWN "MISS"
Miss Commonwealth International and Runners-Up
MCI congratulated by MC-Africa and MrsCI
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THE TRIPLE CROWN "MISS TEEN"
Miss
Teen Commonwealth International & Rs-Up
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THE TRIPLE CROWN "MRS."
 
Mrs. Commonwealth International and Runners-Up
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THE CULTURAL SECTOR CROWN
Miss Commonwealth Africa
MC - Euro-Atlantic
MC - Asia-Pacific
MC - Caribbean
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QUEEN OF FRIENDS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH PAGEANT
(Kazakhstan Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth)
(Hawaii Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth)
Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth
Culture Queen Of
Friends Of The Commonwealth
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PAGEANT PROCEEDINGS
Cultural Expression in Costume
Conventionally dressed to
impress - All very exquisite (except the joker - spot the one in jeans ?!)
 
   
 
FINALE ...
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JUDGES . . .
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and . . . . .
PRESENTERS
Judges:
Rani Mehmi, Prince/Mrs De-Marthins Ojie JP, Princess Makosa,
Mac Haley - Miss Galaxy, Charles Thompson. Presenters: Cherry Jumbo,
Victoria Alexis
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IVHES Awards Presentation to
Community Champions
(Awards presented by Hayley Mac Miss Galaxy)
The prestigious International Voluntary Humanitarian and
Environmental Services (IVHES) Awards scheme, now in its 4th Year, is for the
recognition and global promotion of commendable voluntary endeavour. Every
year, the international community is invited to nominate anyone, living or
late, who, in their opinion, merits the award. The award evening's three most
nominated persons in the Commonwealth cultural sectors of Africa / Caribbean,
Asia-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic were duly recognised and honoured for their
voluntary services to community.
Dr Clarissa Bell-Gam
Liaqat Ali JP
Barry Watson
Dr Clarissa Bell-Gam,
founder of the Education Helpline United Kingdom, the London Academy Institute
of Education and Remember Africa Awards, is honoured for voluntary services to
community in adult education.
Liaqat Ali is
a Justice of the Peace and a local councillor and former mayor of the London
Borough of Waltham Forest. He is honoured for his voluntary promotion of
global peace and unity through the Global and Peace Organisation of which he
is the chair.
Mr Barry Watson, a retired qualified
Permaculture Practitioner, is honoured for voluntary services to the
community, including promotion of youth horticultural awareness, local
biodiversity, derelict land regeneration, and local food economy in the London
Boroughs of Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham.
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Entertainment
Farah'Onics - Egyptian Belly
Dancing - the group brought the roof down! Recommended for any show.
  
More images/ performers to follow
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After Party Scenes
 
More images to come...
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Text Vote Competition
In the run up to the CICCETSS, there was a text vote
competition involving all contestants in the Miss Teen Commonwealth Pageant,
Miss Commonwealth Pageant, Mrs. Commonwealth Pageant and Queen Of Friends Of
The Commonwealth Pageant. The winners were as follows:-
Miss Commonwealth Text
Vote 2009
Mrs. Commonwealth Text Vote
Shirley Burnett - Miss Commonwealth Guyana
Pam Boon - Mrs. Commonwealth India
Queen Of Friends Of the
Commonwealth Text Vote
Bonnie Cooper - Hawaii Queen Of Friends Of
The Commonwealth
HALF THE STORY. SO FAR...MORE TO FOLLOW......
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THE
TRIPLE CROWN
A unique concept of beauty
pageantry involving the
collaboration of all age
groups in a joint international
promotion of community
Quality of Life improvement
MRS.
The reigning corporate Queen of the Mrs -
Mrs Commonwealth International (Hannah
McQuaig) and 1st. and 2nd. Runners Up
(Janet Powell - Jamaica; and Boikanyo Trust Phenyo - Botswana ) know the
joy of taking part and being formally empowered as national and international
culture and charity ambassadors... the joy of
serving the global community as true role models for women.
2009-2010
2006 - 2008
MISS
The reigning Miss Commonwealth International
(Hayley Mac - England) and 1st. and 2nd Runners-Up: Simone Fairweather
-Jamaica; Zoiey Marie Smale - India)
2009-2010 Joanna Peagrum Miss CW Int'l
2006-2008 Aquelle
Plakaris Miss C'W Int'l
TEEN
The reigning Miss Teen Commonwealth Int'l (Sade
Dillworth
- England)
2009 - 2010 Eliza Bolli
PRINCIPAL
4 CULTURAL SECTOR QUEENS
2010-2011
Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic
(Gemma Cunningham - England),
Miss Commonwealth Caribbean
(Natalie Mitchell - Grenada),
Miss Commonwealth Asia-Pacific
(Jasmine Johnson - India)
Miss Commonwealth Africa
(Khayamga Wasike - Kenya)
 
  
2009-2010
QUEEN OF FRIENDS
OF THE COMMONWEALTH
2010 - 2011
Zandra Flores - Phillipines
Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth 2010/11
Runners Up:-
Nokuthula Sithole - Zimbabwe;
Devina Davidson - Brazil
2009-2010 Karina Dempster - Slovakia
Queen of Friends of the
Commonwealth 2009-2010 Runners Up (Dorota and Marta Lopatynska de
Slepowron)
CHARITY QUEENS
Champion
and exemplary international volunteer and world-renown charity-fundraiser
(over £1.5M raised to December 2006): Dental Hygienist,
Professional Model and Singer, Amanda-Jane Taylor, reigning Miss
Commonwealth Charity International, Miss Commonwealth Scotland 2004-6,
Miss Commonwealth International 1st.Runner-Up 2004, and due to be
crowned Miss Commonwealth Eternal. An official North-East Region Ambassador,
and winner of the 2007 North Sounds Radio's Outstanding Contribution To The
Community Awards. Awareness campaigner and mentor for Huntington's Disease.
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Exemplary
charity-fundraiser (over £800K raised): Jayne-Louise Slatter, Miss
Commonwealth England 2004/6, and Miss Commonwealth Sport International 2006.
Qualified Physical Education Teacher who is also renown for her work in
raising awareness about Alopecia and mentoring and promoting self-confidence
among sufferers.
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Kate Hallam,
Former Miss Commonwealth England Inner Beauty.
Former Face of Debenham. Super Model. One of Miss Commonwealth's top 3 charity
fundraisers in 2004. Awarded the Special Reserve title of Miss Commonwealth
Culture International 2006.
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Sonnia Hassanien,
Former Miss Commonwealth England Inner Beauty.
International Super Model.
One of Miss Commonwealth's top 3 charity fundraisers in 2004. Awarded the
Special Reserve title of Miss Commonwealth Inner Beauty International2006.
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