Gag order on Faye Alibocus

THE CCN Group of Companies has placed a gag order on Trinidad and Tobago’s delegate at the 2003 Miss Universe Pageant, Faye Alibocus. Alibocus told Newsday that CCN,franchise holder for the local leg of the Miss Universe International competition instructed her not to talk to any other local media houses since they wanted total exclusivity on interviews with her pertaining to the competition. When told that she was representing a country and not a media house, an apologetic Alibocus insisted that she had to get the okay from CCN to give the interview.

The 23 year-old Alibocus will try to capture the coveted Miss Universe 2003 crown when the show comes off at the Figali Convention Centre in Panama City, Panama, from 8 tonight local time. The singer/aesthetician, who will have to stave off some 71 other delegates for the title, was up to yesterday ranked 17 by the Beauty Stock Market. Should Alibocus win the title tonight, it will be the third time this country has done so in the 49 years that we have been participating in the competition. Apart from the two winners in 1977 (Janelle Penny Commissiong) and 1998 (Wendy Fitzwilliam), Trinidad and Tobago has also had two finalists in the competition - Margot Bourgeois, who placed second, and Arlene Peterkin who placed fifth.