Patricia Rawlins Robinson (March 31, 1931 – September 10, 2009) was a Trinidadian economist and public servant who served as the First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago from 1997 until 2003.
[1][2] Robinson was born Patricia Rawlins in a building on the corner of Oxford and Observatory Streets in eastern Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, on March 31, 1931.
[1] In a June 1990 interview, Robinson revealed that in 1973 she had been offered a permanent position as the Director of Research at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago.
"[1] Robison believed that she had been moved to the "nothing job" because her husband, A. N. R. Robinson, had fallen out with the ruling party which led to his ministerial resignation in April 1970.
[1] In the 1980s, Patricia Robinson also proposed a ten-year development plan to implement and strengthen the Tobago House of Assembly, which was created in 1980.
Several prominent members of the government were taken hostage during the coup attempt, including A. N. R. Robinson, who was the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago at the time.
[1] Her family doctor pronounced her dead shortly after 6 am local time, in the presence of her daughter, Anne Margaret, and granddaughter.