“HUGE­LY PROUD of Jow­elle de Souza who to­day be­came the first open­ly LGBTQ+ cit­i­zen of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go to serve our Na­tion in the Sen­ate! Con­grat­u­la­tions Jow­elle! BRA­VA! An as­set to our com­mu­ni­ty and to our Na­tion!”

Ja­son Jones, Feb­ru­ary 15th 2022.

“I be­lieve in equal op­por­tu­ni­ties for all: the dis­abled, the se­nior cit­i­zens, sin­gle moth­ers, sin­gle fa­thers, the im­pov­er­ished, the abused. My fo­cus has been strength­en­ing the voice of those with­out. Be­com­ing a Sen­a­tor is mon­u­men­tal, as I know it would be the best plat­form for hu­man, so­cial and an­i­mal rights, thus, I am us­ing this plat­form to start this most im­por­tant con­tri­bu­tion. I want to ef­fec­tive­ly rep­re­sent the peo­ple with­out any bi­as­es.” Sen­a­tor, the Ho­n­ourable Jow­elle de Souza shares.

Na­tion­al Awardee of Trinidad and To­ba­go

The new­ly ap­point­ed tem­po­rary Sen­a­tor was award­ed the Bronze Hum­ming­bird Medal in 2014 for her self­less work in An­i­mal Wel­fare and Pro­tec­tion. Pre­serv­ing the rights of an­i­mals, is sec­ond na­ture to De Souza who us­es every plat­form to en­cour­age per­sons to prop­er­ly care for an­i­mals. Cham­pi­oning the re­vi­tal­iza­tion of San Fer­nan­do, has al­so been part of her na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment vi­sion, be­ing a suc­cess­ful busi­ness­woman for over two decades.

Serve with Au­then­tic­i­ty & Brav­ery

She en­cour­ages women to be­come more in­volved in lead­er­ship roles, to serve with au­then­tic­i­ty and brav­ery and has been in­volved in sev­er­al men­tor­ship and pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment ini­tia­tives for Women. “My jour­ney is a spe­cial one, I did what most peo­ple in this word would not dare to do and that is stand up for what I be­lieve in, so that oth­ers would be able to un­der­stand dif­fer­ent is not a bad thing.”

De Souza shares, “I have had many im­pact­ing ex­pe­ri­ences, meet­ing Janet Reno, who served as At­tor­ney Gen­er­al for the US, is cer­tain­ly one of them. She trans­formed the Ju­di­cia­ry Sys­tem, re­vis­ing sev­er­al rules and reg­u­la­tions for crim­i­nal pro­ce­dures. She used her plat­form to make a dif­fer­ence!”

Jow­elle De Souza shares, “the most im­por­tant mes­sage is nev­er give up! Be the pro­tec­tor and de­fend­er of hu­man rights, up­hold­ing uni­ver­sal val­ues of democ­ra­cy, free­dom, jus­tice, equal­i­ty and good gov­er­nance! Be­lieve in your­self and brave­ly go af­ter your pas­sions!

HUGE­LY PROUD of Jow­elle de Souza who to­day be­came the first open­ly LGBTQ+ cit­i­zen of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go to serve our Na­tion in the Sen­ate! Con­grat­u­la­tions Jow­elle! BRA­VA! An as­set to our com­mu­ni­ty and to our Na­tion!