The 1990 Coup - CCN TV6 Special Presentation

A unique look at the events surrounding a turbulent part of Trinidad & Tobago's history. The 1990 Insurrection on July 27th 1990 by a small maverick Islamic group called the Jamaat al Muslimeen, led by Yasin Abu Bakr.
Produced by Fabian Pierre
A CCN TV6 Production 2009.

[@SRoseBlog]

I was born days after. My mom told me the story every year. She explained that my dad had to drive to police station while she was in labor to get permission to be on roads during curfew

[@natoyabain1923]

Same story i heard my mom say cause she was in labor with my brother at the time. needed a police escort to the hospital.

[@natasharees8219]

I was 14 years old and in San Fernando when it happened. I remember I was in class and we told to go home. I remembered seeing the board cast on TV. Seeing Abu Bakr. Praying for the people. It has been a long time. What a day to remember.

[@MissTrinidad]

I Love My Country….. this brings back Nostalgia from my childhood. RIP to those who lost their lives during this time. 🇹🇹❤

[@neeksweeks]

I was 8 years old and my mother never came home that night. We thought she was dead. When she finally returned she said she had to sleep in Royal Bank because there was a curfew and everyone had to get off the streets. Also.... Leo Des Vignes youngest son who was only 4 years old when his father died from being shot in the parliament is now a pilot and he was my flight instructor. That boy grew up not knowing his father because of all this none sense and Abu Baker is walking free ..... 🤦‍♀️

[@ainsleyameerali7622]

I can relate to everything you said .. i was 10 .. and my parents.. who are in heaven now .. was only concerned about us . . The day trinidad stood still

[@EmergencyResponsesTT]

Well if he is walking free it's either corruption, bribes or they are just not thinking correctly like I mean- he literally has been charged for guns and ammunition, terrorism, murder, attempted murder, treason and conspiracy to murder

[@emmanuelbenny1815]

Agreed Polictical Idiots

[@nicholasrose4844]

@@EmergencyResponsesTT well hes dead now

[@EmergencyResponsesTT]

@@nicholasrose4844 Just heard about it.

[@ria8594]

1st time seeing actual footage of the after effects such as the looting and fires omg!

[@crystiality]

Ri Mapp the sight of trinis feteing during this time makes me feel sick. Very disturbing.

[@cundie1]

AND TO KNOW THIS MAN WENT ON TO LIVE LIKE A KING IN THIS COUNTRY....ONLY IN TRINIDAD

[@starlight76able]

That Summer just left Trinidad and my relatives and arrived in Miami when my Uncle informed us the coup in Trinidad.

[@ratbatnufftime2861]

I was 13 and had left for New York the Wednesday. Friday evening, my cousin said the Government in Trinidad had been overthrown. I listened to the news on WLIB and let's just say it was pretty traumatic.

[@mariasoverall1686]

I was 13 years old at the time. What a time in Trinidad

[@crissyk3783]

I was in Trinidad during summer vacation from NY with my 2 sisters. We had a good friend, Shawn that lived just behind us in Arima, his mother was killed in that mess. I was very scared, I vividly remember watching the news broadcasts daily & my older sister telling me that we are safe because we are American citizens, that didn't comfort me much when those military trucks with men and their long rifles came driving through to make sure we were all inside. It was a terrible time as a child, I was 12 yrs old and witnessed my friend's mental demise as a result of loosing his mother. I don't know the details about the coup, I don't believe or trust either side's reasoning or excuses. Shawn my friend, I hope you've recovered as best possible and lived on to be successful and have a family of your own❤

[@ainsleyameerali7622]

This was sooo hard to watch ... this is the day trinidad stood still .. i now reflect on all my loved ones who survived this ... i can only imagine the worry they had for our safety .. now heaven has them .. i was so emotional watching this .

[@crissyk3783]

I feel the same way. 😢

[@ComradeDt]

So interesting how we paint stories, good and evil

[@emanuelcalebmaximus6127]

yes my man

[@Wisdomtotheyouth]

Cuz that is what it is

[@giselleburris298]

Wow! what an exquisite production.

[@oliviahackshaw5267]

From the south of St Lucia,Am watching this in Jan 2021. In those days we only had radio .The events were somewhat baffling but what I do remember was the calm , o trolled voice of Jones es P Madeira . I never heard it again until tonight .

[@shelbourneking7068]

Only in a place like Trinidad someone will pull a stunt like this and the perpetrators get to walk free.

[@blackbeautyalways6481]

They should have never walked free.

[@christianwilliams9010]

@@blackbeautyalways6481 corruption in the government caused that. He had a lot of dirt on them.

[@marcoprimo4042]

@@blackbeautyalways6481 why??? What was the reason for the coup?? A question many don't ask and those who knew cannot answer because they know it bring to light many things they hide from the public.

[@user-uy6gx8bo6l]

Stop acting like islamic terrorists are the answer against corruption

[@livvyx7715]

They wanted to be in charge.they wanted to rule the country!!!!

[@prettyricky2001]

I was 7, and on summer vacation visiting from America. I remember vividly the curfew trucks coming around. RIP those that lost people.

[@rastafaraimaraj5099]

I was 10 at that time i remember seeing this in ttt news 2 & 13

[@shellysmart5722]

I'm so sorry all that lost there lifes in this journey.may god forgive them what they have done.

[@JenniferMRichardson]

A date I will never forget... :(

[@tweekes3]

I was in NY on vacation and was watching channel 7 "wheel of fortune" when a broadcast came on..my mouth was hung I was 13..only body's when I got back home..right by the east dry river

[@carapo66]

Robinson: Attack with full force. Panday: Wake me when it's over.

[@AJ-jf2ui]

I remember being in elementary school when this happened. It was so scary having curfew. I remember thinking to myself what if criminals attack our home at night. People were boarding up their windows and doors.

[@beyourself2444]

Where did you live? We were afraid for the country but nobody where I lived boarded up doors and windows. In fact most people where I lived had started putting burglar proofing in the early 2000s, in the 90s we still slept during the day and night with doors unlocked…

[@JenelleIsrael12]

Omg I remember this I was 6 when this happened

[@mazdaman007]

So proud of Mr.Robinson. Rowley is not even half the man that he was. R.i.P.Mr.Robinson

[@beyourself2444]

No Trinidad PM can be like Robinson, our greatest ever patriotic PM

[@Domini86]

I was only 3, my very faint memory of this was hearing about a curfew and how all needed to be inside.

[@shellysmart5722]

I remember it just was yesterday. i was 12yeas old went it happen .may god bless does who Savior. That's was saddness

[@annmariepatrick2079]

I was in that situation in 1990

[@user-hu6gi6ge5s]

Trinidad is in dire need of this again they are too good right now

[@robbiebachan3985]

i was in port of spain that day

[@blackbeautyalways6481]

I was in Port-Of- Spain also. Will never forget.

[@moraldoramnarine2257]

My humble and honest opinion is that the Order Of The Republic Trinidad and Tobago be awarded posthumously to the late SRP Solomon McCloed for his bravery in the line of duty and our country's first line of defense in the attempted coup

[@ppcbernier9945]

I was 7 at the time. My mom's boyfriend was an Inspector in the police. I remember seeing him switch from his pistol to a rifle, but I was too young to understand the meaning.

[@evergreenlandscaping901]

Trinidad is the country the world that will party when something like this is going on. If you take away carnival now all hell would of take place.

[@dkas24]

I was 8. I understand his plight, but the violence, destruction and terror of a nation is not the way.

[@mikahhype6092]

I was in trinidad on summer vacation from Brooklyn I was 8 and my sister was 13 we were staying in movant watching sesame Street and boom abu bakar appeared on TV can't lie it was exciting for me

[@user-fm8nz7er1o]

I was born in the middle of this 😮😮

[@kimbain8838]

I am soory adout all of it

[@saddleheadson1]

I was 5 watching Ghostbusters in globe theaters with my family. I remember someone coming in the theaters yelling "the red house burning down" and some other things then everyone started frantically finding an exit. I live in Laventille but we had to go to Diego Martin to stay for a week before Port of Spain cleared up. I never really understood the magnitude of the situation as a child. There's a Vice interview on KZbin with Abu Bakr on why he overthrow the country.

[@TheKeithvidz]

9 when this tumult burst fourth - can't recall anything.

[@1dappageneral]

This way bigger than what ppl may think do the maths

[@soleneptune9498]

wild how he only spent 2 years in jail

[@saunders4287]

I believe it has a lot to do with curruption in parlament...he have dirt on them involving drugs and assinations, he did an interview on Vice News, i highly recomend watching

[@soleneptune9498]

@@saunders4287 wow this is really insightful thank you 🙏🏾 😁

[@TrinidadFinest]

I was a teenager Visting my father up in arima and got caught up in the matrix..my father was in the coast guard at the time ..I stranded up town 4 like a month

[@toyboy7275]

I was 10 yes old

[@tyresecaruth8438]

I was non existing lol but fr my mom was just 1

[@arleneameerali4827]

I was 15 then

[@gregrichard9192]

Yuh start of on de wrong foot Dem tv didn't have remote

[@islezeus]

Curfew fetes? What?

[@Trinavara]

Yep they were a blast...

[@phillipparejo6595]

Strange today d country falling apart under a pnm dictator pple dying n suffering n everyone quiet , it seems that pple only speak out wen nar or unc in power never d pnm ...

[@cherylannrampersad-anoop8447]

Lol they still partying will NEVER change

[@devilzreject4853]

regiment supposed to set an example n put a slug between abu bakr eyes n also his followers...

[@shaun_rambaran]

I think they maybe did try to set an example: Maybe they hoped to show this is a country ruled by law and not whoever has the gun. So I think what really let us down was the legal system. Why was he not locked behind bars for the rest of his life? I'm starting to think that one glaring failure of justice set such a terrible precedent that we today still haven't recovered. It showed how deeply corruption influences our official matters and that with the right connections in TT one can literally 'get away with murder' (or coup). There are people still working hard to bring us back, but we all know we have a long way to go and time might be running out.

[@ibrahiymghany4996]

Awww, My 11th birthday.

[@emanuelcalebmaximus6127]

1990 this is fare away from now but but it is us

[@emanuelcalebmaximus6127]

im emanuel

[@yejisprv7824]

im moving from TT its gotten just as bad-

[@GerrardEvelyn]

I was only 14

[@ligthning4780]

Okkkkkk

[@ComradeDt]

Vote them out? Dont make me laugh

[@CanI-lj9cq]

Honestly the way the government is running and making life harder for the poor whom they suffer it will happen again

[@ComradeDt]

Since when is democracy synonymous with freedom??????

[@neilnelmar8007]

Democracy doesn't always result in good governance .

[@henriettasnodgrass3499]

it's sure a better than anything else we have.

[@ronnieguevara883]

We see the fruits of that today...rampant crime

[@williamshaver6796]

i'm surprised the us govt did not intervene like in grenada... think about that an islamic faction taking over a country in usa's back door yard as they would say on grenada.

[@Bajan1]

william shaver Iraq invaded Kuwait a few days later and overshadowed this event.

[@elewastephens-horsham2579]

@jake jones yo this did not happen in Grenada inno it happened in Trinidad

[@chaseedwardsedwards540]

I was 6 yrs old when that insanity took place

[@phillipparejo6595]

All of bakr men was pnm

[@mazdaman007]

All of Abu's men the r still alive are still pnm . Y is thisan free to do as he likes here? Like if he did such a service to us. Shame on this country.

[@gironstrose3973]

he should pay a price he walks around giving speeches yes jaimacan government right while inocent people lost there life

[@islezeus]

Obviously some prominent people in society were behind it. He was released after two years. He was paid for his silence and he had receipts holding over their heads just in case he met in unfortunate end

[@adamsamuel8593]

STFU FORGIVENESS IS BETWEEN HIM AND HIS GOD, YOUR DUMBASS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS, HE WAS PARDONED

[@Trinavara]

So they treated Hazel and the ladies well and released them right ? Sad turn of events for sure ,but even at our worst we are not the worst .

[@talibanalqaeda9137]

One day I will run up in parliment boom

[@k.charles683]

😭😭😭

[@brianparker7204]

Under capitalism greed is paramount. The people's primary concern during the insurrection was to grab as much as they could. Signs of a people brainwashed by capitalism.

[@shaun_rambaran]

Greed is paramount under any system. We are humans and we haven't changed in thousands of years. We've already seen how greedy the socialist and communist regimes all though history had also been! We're seeing it today with Maduro, growing fatter while his people starve. He might be every bit a bastard as Bolsario, even if their ideals are supposedly opposite.

[@easternyankee2096]

More dotish trickies ! The island small and the the government eh no what going on !

[@visharldass6213]

I was 1 year & 4 months old when this madness was unfolded.

[@annesayoung5225]

I was 5 months and 2 days at that time!!! My mom told me this story and from her experience, it was scary!!!!

[@normaramjohn2232]

My uncle to.

[@marcoprimo4042]

Not madness but a revolution that should of happened.....madness is sitting and allowing a government to oppress you by making laws not based on principles or morality, but on the basis of control, and not doing nothing about it.

[@najeebali6111]

Jammat Al Muslimeen stood up against tyranny and oppression directed against them by the NAR government .Because the Jammat had severe evidence and information which could destroy the Government.

[@devilzreject4853]

Najeeb Ali what is this oppression u muslims keep talking about...y not leave n go live in a muslim country

[@kjmg245]

No offense but DONT YOU SEE THE EFFECTS OF THIS if my religion did this i would not support it because many were killed and the country was detroyed.... this is when crime began.

[@ali_esther_1627]

@@shawnmohammed9289 Totally agree, if he succeeded in overthrowing the government that day, we wouldn't still be living in a democratic country. All governments are corrupted in one way or another but it is absolutely horrendous to think that overthrowing authority and murdering innocents would solve that problem.

[@carlislec.9245]

No disrespect I might have the names mixed up but there's a guy with the same name doing time in jail no?

[@kennyrondell135]

im a coup baby 😈

[@nicholascoker7212]

😂

[@janinesemper1119]

What a massacre 😢😢

[@blackbeautyalways6481]

If anybody wishes that a coup happens in Trinidad, you are just evil. I was in Trinidad when the coup happened, I can tell you I will never forget it. Doesn't matter who government is in power, let them dissolve parliament and call election.

[@ifajuwon3285]

Abu is a national hero who fought a currupt colonial system may he rest in peace condolences to the victims in the fight of good vs evil

[@user-uy6gx8bo6l]

Islamic terrorist

[@blacknwhitetruthfully5325]

Alyuh close down petrotrin n privatize it We need another coup like this yes

[@village_ram]

the pnm destroying everything so it's ok rofl. If it was another government then yes another coup.

[@cjoseph65]

PNM - PETROTRIN NO MORE, it’s time for another coup

[@masslineedits]

This cannot happen again. Pnm May be bad but nothing like this is needed

[@adamsamuel8593]

@@masslineedits PNM is not bad it cleaning up the previous government's thiefing. She and a former disgraced Fifa member in her cabinet was thiefing the country blind.

[@vash5307]

@@adamsamuel8593 i like her

[@rickhiramdhanie6580]

We need Abu to shake this place again...this time aim better. Not the foot.