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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Coup report in Parliament today

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Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ex­pect­ed to lay the re­port of the com­mis­sion of en­quiry in­to the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup in Par­lia­ment this af­ter­noon.Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­ceived the re­port yes­ter­day from Pres­i­dent An­tho­ny Car­mona short­ly af­ter it was pre­sent­ed to him by chair­man of the com­mis­sion Sir David Sim­mons.A state­ment from the Prime Min­is­ter's Of­fice yes­ter­day said the doc­u­ment was dis­cussed at yes­ter­day's Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil meet­ing, which Per­sad-Bisses­sar chaired.

It added that Per­sad-Bisses­sar told the meet­ing she would be lay­ing the re­port in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives this af­ter­noon.She thanked Sir Sim­mons and the oth­er mem­bers: Sir Richard Chel­tenham, Dr Haf­fi­zo­ol Ali, Dr East­lyn Mc Ken­zie and Di­ana Ma­habir-Wy­att for their work In 2011, Per­sad-Bisses­sar rec­om­mend­ed to Pres­i­dent George Maxwell Richards that the com­mis­sion be ap­point­ed to in­ves­ti­gate the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, which caused 24 deaths and mil­lions of dol­lars in loss­es.

Leader of the Ja­maat al Mus­limeen Yasin Abu Bakr and 113 oth­ers were grant­ed an amnesty af­ter they stormed the Par­lia­ment, state-owned T&T Tele­vi­sion and Ra­dio Trinidad and held many hostage.Then prime min­is­ter ANR Robin­son was shot and in­jured in Par­lia­ment dur­ing the siege.


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