The "Portraits of Excellence" pageant took place on Sunday March 18, 2012, at the USC Auditorium.

This year's theme was: Responsible Advocacy: A Tool for Social Transformation.

Here are the contestants for this year's pageant:

•  Daryl St. Clair (St. Lucia) - Obesity and Life Style Diseases
•  Cleojenny Severin (St. Lucia) - Male Underachievement
•  Leriano Webster (Anguilla) - Crime in Trinidad and Tobago
•  Sabilla Luke (Dominica) - The Changing Role of Women in the Caribbean
•  Kadeem Graham (Trinidad and Tobago) - Drug Abuse - emphasis on Marijuana
•  Keisha Alleyne (Guyana) - Ethnocentrism within the Caribbean
•  Dwayne Daniels (Guyana) - Child Abuse
•  Faith Walke (Trinidad and Tobago) - At Risk Youth

Talent Section (in order of appearance):

 Daryl St. Clair (St. Lucia)

'Dealing with the Issue of Obesity' (Spoken Word)

 Cleojenny Severin (St. Lucia)

'Even the Score' (Song – Calypso)

 Leriano Webster (Anguilla)

'2020' (Song – Calypso)

 Sabilla Luke (Dominica)

'It’ s Woman Time' (Song – Calypso)

 Kadeem Graham (Trinidad and Tobago)

'Little Black Boy' by Winston ‘Gypsy’ Peters (Song – Calypso)

 Keisha Alleyne (Guyana)

'Ethnocentrism – Stop It' (Song)

 Dwayne Daniels (Guyana)

'These Stripes' (Song – R&B)

 Faith Walke (Trinidad and Tobago)

'Imagine Me' – Kirk Franklin (Song – Gospel)

Talent Section (in order of appearance):

 Daryl St. Clair (St. Lucia)

'A Nation Revival'

 Cleojenny Severin (St. Lucia)

'Epitome of Achievement'

 Leriano Webster (Anguilla)

'Crime, the Harbinger of Death'

 Sabilla Luke (Dominica)

'The Timeless Woman'

 Kadeem Graham (Trinidad and Tobago)

'Life & Death'

 Keisha Alleyne (Guyana)

'Queen of the Birds'

 Dwayne Daniels (Guyana)

'Like a Child / Like a Tree'

 Faith Walke (Trinidad and Tobago)

'S.P.I.C.E.S.'

Kevin Pierre and Usha Ramlakhan

Laurence Gudge (instrumental) and Jean-Claude Cournand (Spoken Word Poetry)

Prizes for this year's pageant:

Get a full recap of this event on our Blog, here.
(Facebook version: http://www.facebook.com/notes/brent-cyrus/uscs-portraits-of-excellence-2012-a-recap/10150583335887820)

Web Design/Layout

Quiet Events (http://www.quietevents.org)

Reporting

Brent Cyrus

Photography

Rany Horne
(View Rany's Facebook photo album here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150630033470784.390651.520230783)

Pageant Management (2012)

Department of Public Relations, University of the Southern Caribbean