CARRIBBEAN

PERSONALITIES.
A GROUP 2 PRESENTATION
BY:LEBRON DAVID, KALANI CHARLES , MAKHAYA CYRUS , XAVIER BLAIR AND ELIJAH CABY .
POLITICS – Kamla Persad-Bissessar
 The Hon.Kamla Persad-Bissessar born on  22 April 1952, is a Trinidadian and
Tobagonian lawyer and politician who is the Leader of the Opposition of Trinidad
and Tobago, political leader of the United National Congress and was the sixth
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 26 May 2010 until 9 September
2015. She was the country's first female Prime Minister, Attorney General, and
Leader of the Opposition, the first woman to chair the Commonwealth of Nations
and the first woman of Indian origin to be a prime minister of a country outside of
India and the wider South Asian region.
CULTURE/ARTS – V.S. NAIPAUL.

 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018),

commonly known as V. S. Naipaul and, familiarly, Vidia Naipaul, was a Trinidad
and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He
is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of
alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He
wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused
controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.
SCIENCE- DOLLY NICHOLAS.
 Dolly Nicholas who was born on 9th February 1952 is the first and only woman
to receive a Trinidad and Tobago national award for scientific invention. She has
received both the Public Service Medal of Merit and the Chaconia Medal (Silver)
for her inventions and contribution to the field of science and technology.
 She was also the winner in the process category of the Prime Minister’s Awards
for Innovation and Invention in 2000 and, in 2002, she received a special award
of merit in the field of chemistry under that same awards programme. She holds
in total eight patents for different commercially useful processes.
 SPORTS- KESHORN WALCOTT
 Keshorn "Keshie" Walcott,  born 2 April 1993 is a Trinidadian track and field
athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He is an Olympic champion, having
won gold in 2012. He is the first Caribbean male athlete, as well as the first of
African descent, to win the gold medal in a throwing event in the history of the
Olympics. He is also the holder of the North, Central American and Caribbean
junior record.
 Walcott is the youngest Olympic gold medalist in the men's javelin (19 years 131
days), and the first athlete in any track and field event to win World Junior and
Olympic titles in an individual event the same year.
BUSINESS-MICHAEL NORMAN
MANLEY
 Michael Norman Manley ON OCC (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a
Jamaican politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from
1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist
program, and has been described as a populist. According to opinion polls, he
remains one of Jamaica's most popular prime ministers.
ECONOMICS - SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR
LEWIS .
 Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison
Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis was known for his
contributions in the field of economic development. In 1979, he was awarded the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was born January 23, 1915 and
died June 15, 1991.
LABOUR MOVEMENT- URIAH
BUTLER
 Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler (21 January 1897 – 20 February 1977), was
a Grenadian-born Spiritual Baptist preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and
Tobago. He is best known for leading a series of labour riots between 19 June and
6 July 1937 and for forming a series of personalist political parties (the British
Empire Citizens' and Workers' Home Rule Party, the Butler Home Rule Party, and
finally the Butler Party) that focused its platform on the improvement of the
working class.
LAW-PAULA-MAE WEEKES.

 Paula-Mae Weekes born on the 23 December 1958 is a Trinidadian politician and

jurist who is the sixth President of Trinidad and Tobago. She is the first female
President of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the second female head of state in
Trinidad and Tobago after Elizabeth II.
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 Weekes attended the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill , from which she
graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree, and the Hugh Wooding Law School,
and was called to the Bar in 1982.[5] After graduation she worked in the office of
the Director of Public Prosecutions for 11 years, before going into private practice
in 1993. She was appointed to the judiciary in 1996 and to the Court of Appeals in
2005, where she served until her retirement in 2016.
HUMAN RIGHTS CAROLYN GOMES
 The Honourable Carolyn Gomes, born 30 March 1958 in Kingston, Jamaica is a
Jamaican human rights activist. She is also the co-founder and now the past
executive director of Jamaicans for Justice. Gomes resigned as the executive
director of Jamaicans for Justice due to controversy surrounding the JFJ
introducing sex education material into a number of private children's homes in
Jamaica that was deemed inappropriate. Since 2014 Carolyn Gomes has been
serving as the executive director of Caribbean Vulnerable Communities
Coalition .