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

188 • 1951 First steelband overseas tour (TAPSO, Trinidad All Percussion Steel Orchestra), to Europe • 1955 First set of women drafted into the Police Force • 1956 Edna Thomas, Lady Iere: first Calypso Competition “Queen” • 1956 Joseph Goddard: Tobago’s first Olympian, Melbourne Australia, 100 & 200 metres • 1956-1959 Eric Williams: first Chief Minister • 1959-1962 Eric Williams: first Premier of Trinidad and Tobago • 1961 Isabel Teshea: first woman elected to House of Representatives • 1962-1981 Eric Williams: first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago • 1962 Lord Bryner: first Independence Calypso King • 1962 Solomon Hochoy: first Governor General of Independent T&T • 1962 Hugh Wooding: first Chief Justice after Independence • 1962 Television pictures first transmitted in T&T • 1963-67 Isabel Teshea: first woman to serve as a Cabinet Minister • 1966-1971 Lilas Wight: first woman to be elected to the legislature in T&T • 1972 Marie Elizabeth Bourne: first female judge (TT Post Stamp 1980) • 1976 Trinidad and Tobago becomes a Republic • 1976 Ellis Clarke: first President of T&T • 1976 Hasely Crawford: first to win an Olympic Gold Medal • 1977 Calypso Rose: first woman to win Road March • 1978 Calypso Rose: first woman to win Calypso Monarch • 1981 First World Champion Boxer, Claude Noel • 1995 Pamela Nicholson: first female MP from Tobago • 1995 Kamla Persad-Bissessar: first female Attorney General • 1999 Wendy Yawching: first female captain of the T&T National Airline • 2010 Marcia Ayers-Caesar: first female Chief Magistrate • 2010 Kamla Persad-Bissessar: first female Prime Minister • 2011 Kamla Persad-Bissessar: Commonwealth’s first female Chairperson-in-Office Please feel free to add to this list.