{"id":294253,"date":"2026-07-13T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294253\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:11:10","slug":"history-made-as-saint-lucia-crowns-two-2026-national-carnival-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294253\/","title":{"rendered":"History made as Saint Lucia crowns two 2026 National Carnival Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saint Lucia made history on Saturday 4 July when Miss Bank of Saint Lucia, Nyaley Lewis, and Miss Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, Faith Edward, were jointly crowned the 2026 National Carnival Queen. It is the first time in the pageant\u2019s 72-year history that two contestants have shared the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pageant was held at The Pavilion on Rodney Bay, where nine contestants competed in five judged categories: swimwear, talent, carnival costume, evening wear and onstage interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lewis and Edward each received the full winner\u2019s prize package, including EC$25,000 in cash, a fully funded scholarship and an all-expenses-paid cruise courtesy of Cox and Company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final results were:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2026 National Carnival Queen<\/p>\n<p>Nyaley Lewis \u2013 Miss Bank of Saint Lucia<\/p>\n<p>Faith Edward \u2013 Miss Saint Lucia Tourism Authority<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First Runner-up<\/p>\n<p>Shernette Rameau \u2013 Miss Republic Onboard<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second Runner-up<\/p>\n<p>Simone Sonson \u2013 Miss Diamond Girl<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third Runner-up<\/p>\n<p>Eudoxia Poleon \u2013 Miss Duty Free Pointe Seraphine<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special awards were presented to:<\/p>\n<p>Faith Edward \u2013 Miss Photogenic<\/p>\n<p>Eudoxia Poleon \u2013 Miss Congeniality<\/p>\n<p>Shernette Rameau \u2013 Strongbow People\u2019s Choice<\/p>\n<p>Miss WMB Events &amp; Rentals \u2013 CPMC Chairman\u2019s Award for Perseverance<\/p>\n<p>Nyaley Lewis \u2013 Best First Interview, Best Swimwear and Best Evening Wear<\/p>\n<p>Simone Sonson \u2013 Best Performing Talent<\/p>\n<p>Eudoxia Poleon \u2013 Best Costume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saint Lucia made history on Saturday 4 July when Miss Bank of Saint Lucia, Nyaley Lewis, and Miss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-294253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}