Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

127 LIONEL F. SEUKERAN (1908-1992) H e was one of the delegates who attended talks in England to finalise our independence in 1962. Prior to that in the 1940’s he was the President-General of theAll Trinidad Sugar Estates and FactoryWorkers Trade Union, a Member of the Legislative Council and a Member of Parliament from 1956-1966. In 1985 he received the Chaconia Medal Gold. ISABEL TESHEA (1911-1981) S he was a social worker, a politician and a diplomat during her impressive career. Her name is associated with many “firsts” in Trinidad and Tobago; the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in 1961, the first woman minister from 1963-1967, the first woman to serve as an ambassador for this country in 1970 to Ethiopia. In 1981 she was awarded the Trinity Cross.