Career
She is the first woman ever to become deputy head of the People"s Democratic Movement. She stood as a candidate in the 2003 election, but was defeated. She was removed from that position in May 2012 after Governor Ric Todd indicated that people planning to run in the November election should not continue to sit on the Advisory Council or the Consultative Forum.
In July, Cartwright-Robinson was named the first-ever female Deputy Leader of the PDM, under Leader Oswald Skippings.
In the 2012 election, she is running as one of eleven candidates for the five at-large seats in the All Island District. Due to provisions in the new 2011 Constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands, this requires her to renounce any foreign allegiance she held by virtue of her own acting
As Attorney-General Huw Shepheard commented, those who were merely born in foreign countries would not be affected by these changes, but those who had applied for foreign passports as adults would be.