WASHINGTON, D.C. — Miss World Bahamas Ashley Hamilton was the guest of honour at a reception hosted by Mrs. Paulette Zonicle, Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C., at the Bahamas Embassy Consular Annex, 1025 Vermont Avenue, N.W., on Tuesday, November 22, 2016.
Accompanied by Mr. Jerome Sawyer, Vice President of the Miss Bahamas Organization, Miss Hamilton is in Washington for preliminary events leading up to the nationally televised Miss World Pageant, which will be staged at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, just south of D.C.
His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States, and Consul General Zonicle delivered brief remarks at the reception and the Bahamian beauty mingled and chatted with a number of Bahamians in the Diaspora, Bahamian students attending colleges and universities in the D.C. area and other specially invited guests.
Representing Long Island, in a field of nine contestants, Miss Hamilton won the coveted Miss World Bahamas title on Sunday, July 24, when the competition was held in the Grand Ballroom of the Melia Nassau Beach Hotel.
An aspiring lawyer, the 6’ 1” statuesque beauty is currently employed as a legal assistant at Delaney Partners in Nassau. In 2014 she graduated Cum laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in History from The University of Florida. She was also a recipient of the Shelby Davis Scholarship in 2011 and holds an International Baccalaureate Certificate from the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada. She was also granted the United World Scholarship in 2009 and was an Honors Student all of her academic career.
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Mrs. Paulette Zonicle (left), Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C., speaking at the reception she hosted for Miss World Bahamas Ashley Hamilton at the Bahamas Embassy Consular Annex Tuesday evening. Also pictured from left: Mrs. Debbie Harrison, the Consul General’s Secretary; Ms. Janine Giibson, Vice Consul, Bahamas Embassy Consular Annex; Miss Hamilton; Mr. Jerome Sawyer, Vic President, Miss Bahamas Organization; and His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States.
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Pictured from left to right at the reception held for Miss World Bahamas Ashley Hamilton at the Bahamas Embassy Consular Annex are Miss Hamilton; Mr. Chris C. Gardiner, founder and president of GKA, P.C., a certified public accounting and consulting firm in D.C.; Mr. Lincoln Marshall; and Consul General Paulette Zonicle.
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At the reception held for Miss World Bahamas Ashley Hamilton at the Bahamas Embassy Consular Annex from left to right: Bahamian concert pianist Dion Cunningham; Ms. Faith Maycock, Third Secretary/Vice Consul, Bahamas Embassy Consular Annex; Mr. Mikhail Bullard, Second Secretary, Bahamas Embassy; and Dr. Philippa Davis.
