Valentina Medina

Valentina Medina (born May 6 1933 in Mount Pleasant, Arima) [cite web
last = Andrews
first = Marlise
title = Medina is New Carib Queen
publisher = Trinidad Guardian
date = 2000-03-28
url = http://www.centrelink.org/newqueen.htm
accessdate =2008-02-11 ] is the fifth Carib Queen since the introduction in 1875. [cite web
last = Grdseloff
first = Bernhard
title = Queen instead of chieftain: lady is head of Trinidad's Carib Indians
publisher = Caribbean & Sun
url = http://www.caribbean-sun.com/Editorial/carib-indians.htm
accessdate =2008-02-11 ]

On March 26 2000, Valentina Medina, of Mausica Lands, Arima, Trinidad aka Iere was named Carib Queen for life, at an election at the Santa Rosa Carib Community Centre in Arima. Medina, 66, the fifth Queen was named as the successor after Justa Werges, queen for the previous 11 years, died in January 2000. [cite web
last = Loubon
first = Michelle
title = Queen of a Forgotten Race
publisher = NALIS
date = 2002-08-11
url = http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Communities/ValentinaMedina2.htm
accessdate =2008-02-11 ]

Though she embraced the Carib way of life since childhood, after her marriage at 18 in 1952 to John Medina, she was called on by then Queen (Edith Martinez) to be more active in traditional Carib life. She was named queen for a day three different times and her husband was named king for the day as well.

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