New titleholders for the inaugural Miss Universe Jamaica Clarendon, Manchester and St Elizabeth joint pageant were announced last night inside the auditorium of the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville.

Returning pageant competitor, 28-year-old construction forewoman Suzan Dowdie, was crowned Miss Universe Jamaica St Elizabeth, while Mickalia Suckie, a 23-year-old University of Technology pharmaceutical student, took the title of Miss Universe Jamaica Manchester.

The Miss Universe Jamaica Clarendon crown went to 23-year-old human resource management student at the University of the West Indies, Taniquia Francis.