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Candice Worrell (born February 8, 1983) was the Miss Trinidad and Tobago Tourism Queen International 2009 title holder. She began a career in modelling when she won the Miss Point Fortin Borough Queen Pageant in 2006. She was also a delegate in the Miss Trinidad and Tobago World pageant in 2007 where she was third runner up. This was eventually won by Valene Maharaj who placed in the top five in Miss World 2007 in China that year.

In December 2007, Candice Worrell took the first runner-up spot at the Miss Trinidad and Tobago Tourism Queen pageant. Worrell was approached by national director Michael Raghunanan in August 2009 to represent Trinidad and Tobago at the international pageant in China.

Biography
Worrell was born in San Fernando and is the first of two children. She grew up however, in a small village in South Trinidad, Siparia. Worrell migrated to New Jersey, U.S.A., at the age of seven, where she spent seven years, before returning to Trinidad and Tobago in 1997.

After high school, Worrell attended the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, where she pursued a degree in Natural Sciences. She graduated with honours in 2007 with a major in Biology and a minor in Environmental Biology. Whilst pursuing her degree, Worrell participated in her first national pageant in 2006, Miss Point Fortin Borough Queen, which she won. After winning this title she became involoved in modelling (mostly commercial and promotional modelling), throughout the Caribbean.

She was accepted to the University of Trinidad and Tobago to pursue a degree in Biomedical Engineering but this had been postponed due to other responsibilites.

Worrell was approached by Michael Raghunanan, (the national director for Miss Trinidad and Tobago Tourism Queen and who also acquired the franchise for Miss Trinidad and Tobago World in 2009), to represent Trinidad and Tobago at Miss Tourism Queen International in Zhengzhou, China after placing 1st runner up int the local leg of the Miss Tourism Queen pageant in 2007. The pageant was held on August 28th, 2009 and was eventually won by Miss Russia, Ekaterina Grushanina.

She is curently working as a Health and Safety Officer, but ultimately hopes to work in the medical field.

Worrell continues to do promotional modelling, as she now represents Caribbean Airlines as one of the faces for one year, starting in September 2009.

Caribbean Airlines launched an online campaign in June 2009 to look for thirty young men and women of Caribbean decent or origin to represent them as Brand Ambassadors for one year. Sixty finalists were chosen out of approximately 950 entrants. The finale was held on September 10th 2009 at the Carlton Savannah Hotel, Trinidad. Twenty young women and ten young men were chosen in total.