Twenty-two-year-old business owner Tahiti Seymour has been crowned Miss Universe Cayman Islands 2025.
The competition winner from Bodden Town was one of four contestants to reach the final, held at The Westin in Grand Cayman on Saturday, 9 August.
The first runner up was Genesis Ryan, 26, from Bodden Town, Gileen MacDonald, 19, from George Town was the second runner up and Tiona Miller, 25, from North Side and George Town, was named third runner up.
Seymour won a whole host of prizes including a CI$70,000 three-year educational scholarship, a photography session, a year of skincare products, an acrylic portrait, six months of personal coaching, one year gym membership and meals and stays at local restaurants and hotels.
She will take part in a variety of events in the Cayman Islands over the next 12 months and will also head to Thailand in November to compete in the international Miss Universe pageant.
Seymour, who recently set up a media and art production house called IslandFrame Studios, has taken over from the previous Miss Universe Cayman Islands, Raegan Rutty.
In a statement on 10 August, she told the people of Bodden Town and the greater Cayman Islands that she was honoured to be their ambassador.
“I thank firstly God, my family and my supporters. I love you for believing in me,” she said.
“I am thrilled to be Miss Universe Cayman Islands 2025, not only to make an impact in our country, for island creatives, but to connect worldwide and share our Caymanianness.”
She went on to thank her sponsors Woodlands, the pageant committee and for all the messages from the wider community, promising to connect soon.
Before her win, Seymour told Cayman Independent she saw the pageant as an “opportunity to expand the definition of what it means to be a modern young Caymanian woman”.
She added: “I realised the pattern of Caymanian youth being hurried into a strict set of career paths.
“Therefore, I seized the opportunity of the Miss Universe pageant as a platform to merge everything I stand for, Caribbean empowerment, activism and the arts.”
The full interview can be read here, and the pageant can be watched in full here.
