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Alexander in 2016. M. Jacqui Alexander is a writer, teacher, and activist. She is both a Professor Emeritus at the Women and Gender Studies Department of the University of Toronto as well as the creator and director of the Tobago Centre "for the study and practice of indigenous spirituality". [1]
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 ...
Beatrice Greig (born 1869) was a Trinidadian writer, editor and women's rights activist in the period between 1900 and 1940. She was one of the most influential voices for women's civil, economic and political equality during this time frame. She was one of the first women to run in an election in Trinidad.
Gene Miles (1930 - 8 December 1972) was a political activist from Trinidad and Tobago. [1] She is recognized for her testimony in the 1967, Commission of Enquiry, [2] into the corruption surrounding the granting of gas station licenses. [3] Miles' testimony resulted in the firing of the Senior Factory Inspector. [3]
Research shows that there are substantial wage differences between men and women in Trinidad and Tobago. While women account for the largest entry into both the workforce and education, a 2015 study [11] shows that their wages are still less than men.
Elma Francois (14 October 1897 – 17 April 1944) was an Africentric Socialist political activist who, on 14 October 1987, was declared as a "national heroine of Trinidad and Tobago". [1] She had been described as one of the "vociferous Africentric activists" in the history of Trinidad and Tobago and in the Caribbean region. [1]
1 American presence in Trinidad and Tobago. 2 Aspirations / Dreams. ... "Police Get More Pay" (1959), Mighty Sparrow ... "Hot dogs Made their Name" - "Hot Dog Hot ...
Jennifer Cassar (August 4, 1951 – July 19, 2018) was a Trinidadian cultural activist and civil servant.Cassar served as the Carib Queen, a leader of the Santa Rosa First Peoples Community and the indigenous community in Trinidad and Tobago, from 2011 until her death in 2018.