Miss Jamaica Winners (Pre-1959)
Miss Nazira Lahood from St. Andrew, Miss Jamaica 1927 Second Place …… Miss Hilda Forster from Half-Way Tree, and Third Place … Miss Agnes Escoffery from Kingston. Award winnings, 1st: £5, 2nd: £3, 3rd: £1 Source: The Daily Gleaner Miss Laurie Duperly from Kingston, Miss Jamaica 1930 Source: The Daily Gleaner Runner-ups, & contestants from other pageants from that fiscal year 1930– Miss Beryl Wong from Kingston, Second Place Miss Pearl Coke from Mandeville, Third Place "More Competitors in Our Recent Beauty Contest" (1930) Reading from left to right, First row: Miss Jamaica 1930: Miss Laurie Duperly, from Kingston; Miss Myrtle Escoffery from Kingston; Miss Dorothy Graham from St. Mary; Miss Gladys Thomas from Kingston, Second row: Miss Silvera from Kingston; Miss Joyce Glegg from Kingston; Miss S. Bardowell from Kingston, Miss P. Hylton from Kingston, Third row: Miss Myrtle Ferguson from Kingston; Miss B. Ruth Marchalleck from St. Thomas; Miss Olga Ohara fro...