Paula Gopee-Scoon

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Paula Gopee-Scoon
MP
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Gopee-Scoon in 2024
Deputy Leader of the People's National Movement
Assumed office
29 June 2025
NicknamePenny

Paula Gopee-Scoon (born 18 April 1958) is a Trinidad and Tobago politician. She was MP for Point Fortin in the House of Representatives and a government minister. Formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs for Trinidad and Tobago from 2007 to 2010, she was appointed the Minister of Trade and Industry on September 11, 2015. She was reappointed August 19, 2020, following the 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election. [1] She attended the University of the West Indies, where she received a B.Sc, and after that the University of London. [2] She has three children, one of whom was a squash player at Princeton University. [3]

References

  1. "Who We Are". Ministry of Trade and Industry. 25 February 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  2. Document of the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament
  3. Princeton Tiger page