[5] She spoke at the 1932 constitutional hearings,[6] where she demanded that the authorities protect the interests of working women,[7] but did not press for universal suffrage on the basis of lack of education.
[8] On 1 October 1934, she was one of the women who led the takeover of the largest private employer in British Honduras, BEC Sawmill.
When the LUA marked its first anniversary in March 1935 with new elections, the winners were Rosannah Branche, Sarah Johnson, Amybell Pratt (chair), Pearl Tennyson, Christobel Usher, and Trapp.
[12] The petition which they sent to the government asking for suffrage included blacks, Garifuna, mestizos and Mayans, the 98% of the populace which did not earn $25.00 per month, and all persons aged 21 and over.
Getting no positive response, a public meeting was held in which Trapp was the only woman speaker and she advocated hiring women to collect water tokens to better organize the waiting queues.
In 1951, when the governor dissolved the predominantly PUP city council to thwart nationalist aims, Reyes led a protest to the Government House.
The ten-person council elected four women: Reyes, Hazel Gentle, Enid Panting, and Elsa Vasquez.
[28] By 1962,[27] Reyes had joined the National Independence Party (NIP)[29] and was appointed to serve on Labour Department’s new Domestic Servants Committee.