Jennifer Cassar | |
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Carib Queen | |
Reign | August 6, 2011 – July 19, 2018 |
Predecessor | Valentina Medina |
Successor | Nona Aquan |
Born | Jennifer Pile August 4, 1951 Malabar, Arima, Trinidad and Tobago |
Died | July 19, 2018 Malabar, Arima, Trinidad and Tobago | (aged 66)
Spouse | Augustin Cassar (?–2018; her death) |
Occupation | Civil servant |
Jennifer Cassar (August 4, 1951 – July 19, 2018) was a Trinidadian cultural activist and civil servant. Cassar served as the Carib Queen, a leader of the Santa Rosa First Peoples Community and the indigenous community in Trinidad and Tobago, from 2011 until her death in 2018.[1][2] Cassar, a career civil servant and the sixth Carib Queen since the title's creation in 1875, was the first Carib Queen to hold a secular job.[3]