{"id":4904,"date":"2011-01-26T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2011-02-06T08:22:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T12:22:46","slug":"1990-enquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4904","title":{"rendered":"1990 Enquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"

1990 Attempted Coup<\/a>Robinson recalls his infamous order:
\n‘Attack with full force’<\/a>
\nMORE than 20 years after he was held hostage in the Parliament Chamber at the Red House in Port-of-Spain, and his Government overthrown by 114 Muslim insurgents, former President Arthur NR Robinson yesterday testified before the Commission of Inquiry established to probe events surrounding July 27, 1990.
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\nRobbie: I was shot and beaten<\/a> <\/p>\n

ANR: Panday wanted to bring down NAR Govt<\/a><\/p>\n

Robinson recalls disunity in his government<\/a><\/p>\n

Robinson has axe to grind—Panday<\/a><\/p>\n

Police protection for former President<\/a><\/p>\n

Witness: I saw cop shot and set afire<\/a><\/p>\n

Sentry at HQ ‘did not stand a chance’<\/a>
\nSolomon McCleod, the policeman on duty at the northern entrance of Police Headquarters who was the first casualty in the 1990 coup attempt, did not have “a ghost of a chance”, former assistant solicitor general, Lynette Stephenson, who witnessed his murder, told the Commission of Enquiry into the events surrounding the coup 1990 attempt yesterday. <\/p>\n

Rowley ‘optimistic’ about outcome<\/a>
\n‘1990’ enquiry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robinson recalls his infamous order: ‘Attack with full force’ MORE than 20 years after he was held hostage in the Parliament Chamber at the Red House in Port-of-Spain, and his Government overthrown by 114 Muslim insurgents, former President Arthur NR Robinson yesterday testified before the Commission of Inquiry established to probe events surrounding July 27, … Continue reading 1990 Enquiry<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,178,396],"tags":[468,149,605,497,500,150],"class_list":["post-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-media","category-peoples-partnership","tag-1990-attempted-coup","tag-1990-coup","tag-a-n-r-robinsom","tag-abu-bakr","tag-imam-yasin-abu-bakr","tag-yasin-abu-bakr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4932,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}