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Trinidad and Tobago: Women take frontline in politics

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Last weekend, two women were elected to key positions in the Congress of the People (COP) and the People’s National Movement (PNM). Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan beat the incumbent Joseph Toney to become the COP’s new chairman while Penelope Beckles defeated MP for Laventille East/Morvant Donna Cox for the position of female vice-chairman of the PNM. 

Read more at Guardian Media, published 1 November 2012.

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Last weekend, two women were elected to key positions in the Congress of the People (COP) and the People’s National Movement (PNM). Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan beat the incumbent Joseph Toney to become the COP’s new chairman while Penelope Beckles defeated MP for Laventille East/Morvant Donna Cox for the position of female vice-chairman of the PNM. 

Read more at Guardian Media, published 1 November 2012.

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