“[…] I would like Fuad [Abu Bakr] to tell the nation what other option the NAR Government had than to go to the IMF. “Far from being a heartless dictator, the then Prime Minister Mr ANR Robinson sought to retain all those persons employed in the Public Service by reducing …
Read More »Fuad Abu-Bakr: The Imam put the ‘healthy fear’ of the people into T&T governments
“[…] As a result of Yasin Abu Bakr and 113 other brave men, governments had a little fear for the people after. Thus they at least threw crumbs for them. Also no government dared to go back to the IMF and bring austerity again—as this government is currently afraid to …
Read More »Yasin Abu Bakr: The drugs made me do it; Jamaat boss on 1990 coup
Flashback: The following interview was first published on 27 July 2015… Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr says that the country still does not know the real story of July 1990 but he is not yet ready to share it. What he does share is that it is the Jamaat’s attempts …
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Wired868 Football Festival V: T&T football stars at play! Ahkeela Mollon, Arnold Dwarika, Marvin Oliver, Densill Theobald, Hutson Charles, Ryan Stewart, Michael Maurice, Anthony Sherwood, Devorn Jorsling, Ansil Elcock, Darin Lewis, Gary Glasgow and many more. More from Wired868 TV6ME: Michael Johnson and Anton Corneal on How to Make a …
Read More »Fuad Abu Bakr: Jamaat acted to save T&T; my father is a scapegoat
Fuad Abu Bakr, political leader of the New National Vision (NNV), accuses the Government of using his father and Jamaat-al-Muslimeen Imam Yasin Abu Bakr as a scapegoat, reveals why he clashed with the Imam over the 1990 Commission of Enquiry and explains why the NNV is not a Muslim party, …
Read More »Reviewing the 1990 Coup: Is Abu Bakr’s number up?
Columnist Earl Best refuses to shoulder arms as he revisits one of the most controversial periods in Trinidad and Tobago’s history History is replete—littered is more appropriate since the dung heap of history is where we find them—with characters who make no distinction between fame and notoriety. Adolf Hitler, Jack …
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