Shamfa Cudjoe

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Shamfa Ashaki Cudjoe (born 1982) is a Trinidad and Tobago politician representing the People's National Movement. She has served as a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for Tobago West since the 2015 general election. She is the current Minister of Sport and Community Development. [1]

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Early life

Cudjoe was born in 1982 as the fourth of eight children. Her mother, Wilma Warner-Cudjoe, is from Mason Hall and her father, Jeffrey Cudjoe, is from Bethel. She attended the Mason Hall and Montgomery Government Primary Schools, the Scarborough Methodist Primary School, the Scarborough Junior Secondary School and Signal Hill Senior Comprehensive School. [2]

She participated in youth activism and served as a youth ambassador for CARICOM and the United Nations. She was president of the Tobago Youth Council and participated in the Regional Youth Parliament initiative. [3] When she was seventeen, she attended the first World Youth Congress in Hawaii in 1999 as a member of the Caribbean delegation. [2]

In 2006, she received her bachelor's degree in international affairs from Bethune-Cookman College in Florida, United States. [1] She then received a masters of science with distinction in international trade policy from the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. Cudjoe also completed courses in economic development, export diversification, and international food and agriculture trade with the World Bank Institute. [2]

Career

She worked as a trade analysis for the Division of Planning and Development and as an international trade consultant with the Organisation of American States and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. She is the assistant director of the Youth Energised for Success programme, an initiative of the Division of Finance and Enterprise in the Tobago House of Assembly. [2]

On 18 June 2010, Cudjoe was appointed as an Opposition Senator in the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago. She was the youngest Tobagonian to be appointed to the Senate. [1] She was first elected to the House of Representatives for Tobago West on 7 September 2015 following the 2015 general election. She was appointed to be the Minister of Tourism on 11 September 2015, a position that she held until 9 April 2018 when she became the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs. [1]

She was re-elected to represent Tobago West on 10 August 2020, following the 2020 general election. [1] She received 9,275 votes, while her nearest opponent received only 4,501 votes. [4] She was appointed as the Minister of Sport and Community Development on 19 August 2020. [1]

Personal life

Cudjoe is a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and the founder of the Pink Diamond Society for Ladies Incorporated. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Honourable Shamfa Cudjoe, MP". Trinidad and Tobago Parliament. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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  3. 1 2 "The Honourable Shamfa Cudjoe, MP". Trinidad and Tobago Government News. Archived from the original on 3 January 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  4. ↑ Nicholas, Stephon (18 August 2020). "Cudjoe happy with PNM's election strategies in Tobago". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday . Archived from the original on 3 January 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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