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Caribbean immigration to New York City has been prevalent since the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. [1] This immigration wave has seen large numbers of people from Jamaica , Haiti , Cuba , Dominican Republic , Antigua and Barbuda , Guyana , and Trinidad and Tobago , among others, come to New York City in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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 ] In 1936, the Coterie hosted a conference in Port of Spain and invited social workers from throughout the British West Indies and British Guiana .
The Trinidad and Tobago Succession Act was passed by Parliament in 1981 and Legislation on Property Rights was also passed, revising provisions on real property and women's property rights. As such, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago affirms women's rights to property ownership.
Gema Wellesley Julumsingh, a Dougla, was born in 1910 [1] in Curepe, when Trinidad was part of the British West Indies to Florence (née Arindell) and Julumsingh, an educated man of Indian heritage. Her mother, of White Scottish and Afro-Caribbean heritage died when she was around two years old and her father sent Gema and her younger sister to ...
Christina F. Lewis (1919 – 21 November 1974) was an Afro-Trinidadian community worker, trade unionist and women's rights activist. Through her political activities, she worked to improve the conditions of workers and women, advocating for universal adult suffrage and for British citizens of the West Indies to have the same rights and privileges as their counterparts in Britain.
Nixon works, writers and makes art about intersectional feminism, Black liberation and decolonization. [1]Nixon is a tenured lecturer at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine's Institute for Gender and Development Studies where, from 2017 to 2021, she led the Sexual Culture of Justice program that produced local and regional analysis on how to approach sexual and gender-based ...
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She has also served on the boards of national and international organizations, including the Police Service Commission of Trinidad and Tobago, [8] as well as Republic Bank, where she was the first woman appointed in 17 years. [3] [9] In 2013, she became the first woman to chair Trinidad and Tobago's Public Service Commission. [2]