Odessa ready to conquer Miss Caribbean Carnival Pageant this Saturday

Twenty-four-year-old Odessa Grogan who stands five feet, six inches tall is ready to conquer the first ever Miss Caribbean Carnival Pageant on Saturday in St Kitts and Nevis. The Guyanese beauty ambassador is making sure that her national carnival costume is intact and her other gowns are well pressed and fitted for the grand evening.

She is quite happy to be presenting Guyana at the Caribbean pageant and is overwhelmed with the support she has received from her Guyanese fans. She has been competing in several preliminary competitions and has been able to impress the judges and with that as plus, she is hopeful to walk away with the inaugural title.

The pageant is a celebration of rich Caribbean Carnival Culture and as such, Guyana’s Mashramani experience will be the focus point of her showcase, with a world wind of creativity, colour, fun and festivities.

The accounts clerk is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Business Management, having completed her diploma in that field at the University of Guyana.

Grogan likes Indian, Latin and modern dances as well as some acting and disc juggling.

Commonly called “Spice Girl”, a name she got after being teased as a child due to having a similar hairstyle to “Scary Spice” from the Spice Girls, this Guyanese beauty is eager to represent Guyana on the international stage.

She is the youngest of seven children and was first runner-up in the Colefacts Student Designing Competition. She is also a Civil Defence Commission (CDC) Volunteer Corps member; an organisation developed to support the functioning initiatives of the CDC, the country’s national disaster organisation, particularly at the community level.

Much of the focus of the CDC VC is on disaster risk management as it relates to children. Community service is extremely important to her as well. Philanthropy and volunteering have been a part of her life since the age of eight when she first became involved with a healthcare philanthropy.

Since then, it has been a personal passion of hers. Among other causes, Grogan routinely undertakes feeding programmes with friends and colleagues that target the vagrant population in various sections of Georgetown.

She has also focused a lot of her attention on the orphanages by personally organising the donation of clothing, as well as personal and school supplies. The orphanage project has taken place every Christmas since 2009.