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Trinidad and Tobago offers free tertiary education to citizens up to the undergraduate level at accredited public and select private institutions. Both the Government and the private sector also provide financial assistance in the form of academic scholarships to gifted or needy students for study at local, regional or international universities.
According to the 2012 National Gender Policy, despite high levels of education and employment, women are still the primary care-givers in the society with the majority of the responsibility for raising children, performing housework, taking care of the sick, the aging and elderly, and the disabled, and managing many of community-based ...
They sought reform of laws to address illegitimacy and alimony, and pressed to change laws which barred women from participating in governmental boards and councils, or serving as jurors. [5] The Coterie would be the leading women's rights organization for middle-class women in Trinidad and Tobago from the 1920s to the 1940s. [9]
Anna Mahase (1932/1933 – 24 May 2024) was a Trinidadian educator and administrator. She was principal of the St. Augustine Girls' High School in Trinidad and Tobago.She was the commissioner of teaching of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Anne Mitchell-Gift is a Tobago politician from the Tobago Council of the People's National Movement who was the first female Presiding Officer of the Tobago House of Assembly, serving from 2001 to 2013. Mitchell-Gift was the Secretary of Education, Youth Affairs and Sport from 2006 to 2013. [1]
In 2014, Reporters Without Borders, in its Press Freedom Index, placed Trinidad and Tobago at the 43rd place, with a score of 23.28, [7] corresponding to a "satisfactory situation". [8] In the same year, Freedom House classified Trinidad and Tobago as "free" in terms of press freedom, which is the highest level available. There were cases ...
Claudia Vera Jones (née Cumberbatch; 21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist.As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation". [1]
Trinidad and Tobago women (6 C, 6 P) G. Girls' schools in Trinidad and Tobago (4 P) H. History of women in Trinidad and Tobago (5 C) O. Women's organisations based in ...