Anthony Carmona
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His Excellency Anthony Carmona SC ORTT |
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| 5th President of Trinidad and Tobago | |
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Assumed office 18 March 2013 |
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| Prime Minister |
Kamla Persad-Bissessar Keith Rowley |
| Preceded by | George Maxwell Richards |
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| Born |
Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona 7 March 1953 Fyzabad, Saint Patrick County, Siparia, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Reema Harrysingh |
| Alma mater |
University of the West Indies Hugh Wooding Law School |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona, SC, ORTT is the fifth President of Trinidad and Tobago, in office since 2013. Previously he was High Court Judge at the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago, and he served as a Judge of the International Criminal Court from 2012 to 2013.
Anthony Carmona was born on 7 March 1953 in Fyzabad, in South Trinidad, eldest of six children of Dennis Stephen Carmona and his wife Barbara. He is of African, Amerindian, and Spanish (Latino-Cocoa Payol) descent. He graduated from Santa Flora Government Primary School and Presentation College, San Fernando. He attended the University of the West Indies and the Hugh Wooding Law School between 1973 and 1983.
After graduating from Hugh Wooding Law School in 1983, Carmona worked as a State Counsel. In 1989, he became a Senior State Attorney. From 1994 to 1999, he was first Assistant then Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions. From 2001 to 2004, he was an Appeals Counsel at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha.
In 2004, he was appointed a High Court Judge at the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago.
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