Prime Minister Andrew Holness has congratulated medical student Shanique Singh who on Sunday night December 4) was crowned Miss Jamaica World 2022.

In a post on Twitter, the prime minister said: “I wish you a successful and inspiring reign. Congratulations also to the other brilliant and talented Jamaicans who competed for the crown. Let’s bring home that crown.”

Singh, 25, wearing the Miss Howard Johnson Realty sash, was named successor to Miss Jamaica World 2021 Khalia Hall during a ceremony at the Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston.

Lineisha Davis was first runner up while Tahje Bennett placed third.

Ahead of her coronation, Singh claimed wins in the Serengeti Talent Fast Track Event, which she won with a traditional Indian dance, and the Fort Clarence Beach Beauty Event.

She will now seek to follow in the footsteps of Toni-Ann Singh, who famously won the Miss World title in 2019 and became the only Miss World to serve for two consecutive years after the 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Before that, Jamaica last claimed the Miss World crown when Lisa Hanna took the title in 1993.

Miss Poland Karolina Bielawska, the reigning Miss World, will crown her successor during the 71st Miss World coronation, the location and date of which have yet to be announced.