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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the State will not overturn its decision to auction properties belonging to the Jamaat al Muslimeen.

Persad-Bissessar said the auction notices were scheduled to appear in today’s newspapers, 20 years to the date, when Yasin Abu Bakr led a group of rebels to overthrow the then government. Police Headquarters and other buildings in Port-of-Spain were destroyed on July 27, 1990. Speaking yesterday, after casting her vote at the San Francique Hindu School, Persad-Bissessar said: “Those matters are best answered by my Attorney General.

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An insurrection, 2 decades later.....


On July 27, 1990, the author was a few months into an appointment as the first Picture Editor of the Trinidad Guardian. His first effort at producing a revamp of the Sunday paper’s magazine section was on the presses when they were fired on that evening. He led the newspaper’s photographic response to the insurrection over the next six days. Now that the coup attempt has slowly and inexorably slipped between the comforting pages of history, it is becoming one of those events that now serves as a benchmark in time. “What,” it has now become possible to ask, “were you doing on July 27?”

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Absent for a coup, my story 20 years later



It is exactly 20 years ago; it’s 7 pm on a Friday evening, and I’m attending a cocktail reception at City Hall, in Nathan Phillip Square, in downtown Toronto, Canada, to welcome participants in the 1990 Caribana Festival. With a drink in hand, I am reminiscing about having missed that evening’s CFU football final at Hasely Crawford Stadium between Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica; about my smooth flight aboard an Air Canada aircraft; and, generally enjoying the ambience of a beautiful summer evening in North America.