Imarah Radix, Miss Guyana World 2009

Imarah Radix is a charming twenty-four year old who graduated from CobhamHall girls school Kent, England with ten G.C.S.E's including French and Dance. She went on to do three A Levels at the same institution in Russian History, English Literature and Classical Greek Civilization.
She recently graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and Politics. Imarah has deferred her place on the Masters Degree course in International Relations and Diplomacy at the University College Kensington, London in order to take up the once in a lifetime opportunity to represent Guyana at the Miss World Pageant.

She is a very outgoing and friendly person and has a wide variety of interests outside of her academic pursuits. Her many hobbies include swimming, reading, modeling, singing, Flower arranging and dance /choreography.

During her A-Levels Imarah undertook the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award where she learned the invaluable benefits of working with others in a team, navigational skills such as map reading and enjoyed the challenge of setting up camp outdoors. She is also an ardent Scuba diver being both SSI and PADI trained and is certified in the Open Water and Advanced Open Water diver courses with five specialties. She is a trained Wreck diver, Navigational diver, Deep diver, Peak Performance diver, Underwater Naturalist and Search and Recovery diver. All these specialties have enhanced her ability to be a safe and more qualified diver. The underwater naturalist specialty was the one she enjoyed the most as it was focused on caring for and maintaining the underwater environment in light of climate change and human degradation of the environment. She participated in fish spotting while on her dives to help monitor the amount of fish species in the water and to measure the impact of climate change on the fish and their habitat. Her sense of adventure has taken her to many countries such as Egypt, Margarita Island off Venezuela, Thailand, Nigeria, many European destinations and also to the wider Caribbean. Through traveling and diving Imarah has enjoyed the experiences of interacting with and meeting new people and learning about their cultures, history and way of life in their countries.

She also has a fervent interest in dance. She began her classical ballet training at the tender age of three and since then she has continued to learn many other forms of dance such as Ballroom, Tap, Jive, Hip hop and Latin. During her time at Oxford Imarah choreographed a dance for the University's Afro-Caribbean Society Talent Show in her first Year.

Imarah has taken part in many fashion shows both in Guyana and Abroad including the inaugural Guyana Fashion Weekend. She has appeared as a model for London based designer Anetha Daniels in GEM Magazine .She has graced the cover of Extra and has done photo shoots for GT&T for use in their ad campaigns and billboards and modeled for some of the best Guyanese designers such as Michelle Cole and Olympia Small.  She has also appeared on television in US Aids awareness commercials and in music videos for local Guyanese Artistes. Imarah also won a competition in the United Kingdom to be the face of a brand called Tigress Clothing.

Imarah is an extremely strong, motivated and socially aware individual always taking an interest in the less fortunate within society and visits the children's orphanage in Durban backlands to help out in any way she can. She has also undertaken as of last year an annual feeding of the poor across the river in memory of her grandma who taught her the benefits and blessings gained through charitable acts. There is nothing more satisfying than knowing you are assisting someone who is in genuine need of a helping hand.

In the future after the completion of her masters degree Imarah hopes to work in the area of Human Rights either with the United Nations or an affiliated non-governmental Organization.  She is very interested in the aspect of the treatment of children and their fundamental rights. Imarah is a passionate person in her values and morals and is totally committed to fulfilling her dreams while contributing and playing her part to make this world a better place for future generations to enjoy. She feels strongly about issues of racial discrimination, world poverty, social injustice, climate change and conservation of wildlife and the environment.

Imarah Is a relentless worker when she sets her mind on achieving a goal which is in keeping with her personal motto that there is no such thing as luck but that when opportunity knocks one is prepared.