Career
In 1993 she founded the highly successful Trinidad and Tobago Newsday newspaper. She was Chief Executive Officer until her death aged 85. Mills was born in Woodbrook, Portuguese of Spain, and attended Providence Girls Catholic School.
Her first job at the age of 17 was with the Portuguese-of-Spain Gazette, where she remained for 11 years, as a library assistant and reporter.
She subsequently worked at the Trinidad Guardian, where from 1964 to 1970 she was a senior feature writer/reporter, going on to become news editor of the Sunday Guardian (1970-1978) and then its editor (1979-1990). When in 1989 she became the Trinidad Guardian′s editor-in-chief (until her retirement in 1993), she was the first woman to hold such a post at a national newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago.
She was also an author of children"s books