Mar­garet Samp­son-Browne

In a pro­found­ly male-dom­i­nat­ed field, Mar­garet Samp­son-Browne has risen through the ranks to be­come most pow­er­ful woman in the Po­lice Ser­vice, car­ry­ing the rank of Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er in charge of Com­mu­ni­ty Re­la­tions.

Jear­lean John

Ris­ing from hum­ble be­gin­nings in Char­lot­teville, To­ba­go, John has be­come a pow­er­house in her own right, head­ing the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) and as chair­man of the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott).

He­len Bhag­wans­ingh

He­len Bhag­wans­ingh, chair­man and CEO of the Bhag­wans­ingh Group of Com­pa­nies, broke the prover­bial glass ceil­ing when she be­came the first woman to be in­duct­ed in­to the T&T's Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce's Busi­ness Hall of Fame last De­cem­ber.It was Bhag­wans­ingh's plan­ning, abil­i­ty to de­vel­op strate­gies, as well as set goals and make sound fi­nan­cial de­ci­sions, that made the group in­to the for­mi­da­ble en­ter­prise it is to­day.

Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son

Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son is the first woman to be elect­ed Deputy Speak­er in the Par­lia­ment of T&T.Beck­les-Robin­son served as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Ari­ma be­tween 2000 and 2010 and has held var­i­ous di­verse port­fo­lios, hav­ing been Min­ster of So­cial De­vel­op­ment, Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Tourism, as well as Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties and the En­vi­ron­ment.She first en­tered Par­lia­ment in 1995 as an Op­po­si­tion sen­a­tor.

Cather­ine Ku­mar

Cather­ine Ku­mar, is chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer and sec­re­tary to the board at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, a po­si­tion she took up in Jan­u­ary 2010.Be­fore this, Ku­mar held sev­er­al se­nior lead­er­ship po­si­tions such as pres­i­dent and coun­try head of RBTT Bank Lim­it­ed and in­spec­tor of fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions at the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go. She al­so served as the first fe­male pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Bankers' As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go, and she al­so chaired the Caribbean Group of Bank­ing Su­per­vi­sors.