Kavelle Christie, Star Reporter

Kevin Thompson (left), CEO of Laface model management, chats with businessman Mr. Lachu Ramchandani (second left), managing director of the Miss Global International and Carlyon Jones, project manager for Mrs. Jamaica World, at the launch of the Mrs. Jamaica World Pageant last Friday. The pageant is open to women who are married and who would not have been eleigible for the Miss Jamaica World and Miss Jamaica Universe pageants. - Colin Hamilton

On Friday night the first MiPhone Mrs. Jamaica World was launched at Club India, Lady Musgrave Road.

According to the franchise owner, Mr. Kevin Thompson, also CEO of LaFace International, they decided to get involved in the Mrs. World competition because married women didn't have the opportunity to enter other beauty pageants.

"Over the years the Ms. Jamaica World and the Ms. Jamaica Universe competitions have only been open to single women while married women don't have the opportunity to enter," he said.

Ramchandani joke

Mr. Lachu Ramchandani, managing director of the Miss Global International, also jokingly said, "Now you can have as many baby fathers and husbands as you want and be divorced as many times and still enter the competition."

That night Ramchandani also announced that he was handing over the local and Cayman franchises of the Miss Global International to Thompson. He also said he would be aiding in the recruitment of contestants from the western end of the island for the Mrs. Jamaica World competition.

In order for contestants to enter, they need to be between the ages of 20-35 and, of course, be married. They also need to provide a marriage certificate as proof of their status.

The MiPhone Mrs. Jamaica World Beauty Pageant will be held on February 11, 2007, and the winner will vie for the opportunity to represent Jamaica at the Mrs. World Pageant to be held in Moscow, Russia, in March.