Oreime Queen of Pacific Miss Pacific Island 2016 Crowned

Queen of Pacific Miss Pacific Island 2016 Crowned. Oreime.com loves to celebrate melanin Queens around the world. According to the New Miss Pacific Islands Anne Dunn “Pageants give young women an opportunity to represent intelligence, courage and unique cultural heritage”.

Queen of Pacific Miss Pacific Island 2016 Crowned

Newly crowned queen of the Pacific at the Miss Pacific Islands Pageant in Apia, Samoa on Friday night, the Namosi native was full of gratitude and switched to her maternal dialect mid interview.

“Thank you so much Fiji for supporting me. Vinaka vakalevu. Vina valevu kemutou i Nadroga. Vabi vei kemutou i Nabau. Vinakwa lewa, Koko Jim. Kemutou taucoko ni kalougata, qi tam kilasia na ca me qu kwaya. Qi mata vavinavina vuo lewa, vinakwa taucoko ina kwa o tara,” she said.

“Thank you so much to everyone, to all my aunts, all my friends thank you so much to my parents. Thank you so much to my mom whose out in America. Your support, your love, your prayers — I can’t even imagine but I thank you so much. Words can’t express all this love and I can’t begin to show my gratitude to her.

“I was privileged to stand on this stage with all of them, representing intelligence, representing courage, representing their culture and their uniqueness within the Pacific islands,” Miss Fiji said.

Ms Dunn congratulated organizers of Vodafone Hibiscus Festival, Telecom Miss Fiji Pageant and the Miss Pacific Islands Pageant.

“I congratulate every secretariat and every government initiative who had taken this platform and taken it seriously, giving an opportunity to us as young women, especially as young Pacific Island women to be able to articulate, to be able to express ourselves and to be able to state that we are not only beautiful but we have intelligent minds and we have strength that comes from our roots and courage that comes from our parents,” she said.

Queen of Pacific Miss Pacific Island 2016 Crowned

Ms Dunn won ahead of Miss American Samoa Antonina Keka Lilomaiava (2nd), Miss Solomon Islands Camilla Grossmith (3rd), Miss Samoa Priscilla Olano (4th) and Miss Cook Islands Tepaeru Helen Toka (5th).

“We live to inspire, we hope to encourage. We stand on these stages not to look pretty, not to entertain only — but to genuinely give a voice to every young woman out there who think that pageants are not a place to be just because you are woman.”

A University of the South Pacific law graduate, Ms Dunn was a paralegal at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions when she first entered the Hibiscus Festival in May.

“I do realize though that winning Miss Pacific Islands Pageant or being crowned tonight comes with a lot of responsibility so that’s also something that I have to look forward to 2016 was an amazing year for me having graduated from USP and having gone through the different pageants as the end of the year rolled in. So I thank everyone who made this possible,” Ms Dunn said.

She won best pre-pageant interview (research topic) with a paper on technological effects on culture and history and the best traditional attire category which was designed by chaperone Shayneal Lal.

Congratulations Queen Anne Dun crowned Miss Pacific Island Queen of Pacific may your reign be fruitful and memorable.