After failing to sit as a judge during the screening for this year’s Mutya ng Davao 2019, I was so happy when the beauty pageant organizer, Dan Salvana, Jr., invited me again last Feb. 20, 2019, to sit as a judge during the semifinals competition. There were 29 young Davaoenas, all “beauties and empowered women,” coming from the different areas of Davao City who tried their best to get the judges nods at the Abreeza Mall of Davao’s Entertainment Center. The smooth flowing pageant program was ably hosted by Darwin Gevero who came in a pink suit.
