{"id":54821,"date":"2021-10-21T23:42:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T03:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54821"},"modified":"2021-10-21T23:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T03:51:26","slug":"abu-bakr-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54821","title":{"rendered":"Abu Bakr dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Jensen La Vende<br \/>\nOctober 21, 2021 &#8211; <A HREF=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2021\/10\/21\/yasin-abu-bakr-has-died\/\">newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2021\/10\/21\/yasin-abu-bakr-has-died\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/bakr.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"135\" border=\"0\" class='alignleft' alt=\"Jamaat al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr\"><\/a>DAYS after celebrating his 80 birthday Imam Yasin Abu Bakr has died.<\/p>\n<p>Bakr, formerly Lennox Phillip, was the leader of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen which attempted to overthrow the NAR government on July 27, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Police reported that Bakr, a diabetic, collapsed at his home at Long Circular Road, St James on Thursday night and was taken to the St James Health Facility where he was declared dead.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHis daughter-in-law Kristy Ramnarine-Abu Bakr confirmed his death on Facebook. &#8220;My father in law Imam Yasin Abu Bakr has passed away. From Allah we came to Allah we shall return,&#8221; she wrote.<br \/>\nHis son, Fuad Abu Bakr, posted on his page: &#8220;From Allah we came and to Allah we shall return.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em><A HREF=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2021\/10\/21\/yasin-abu-bakr-has-died\/\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jensen La Vende October 21, 2021 &#8211; newsday.co.tt DAYS after celebrating his 80 birthday Imam Yasin Abu Bakr has died. Bakr, formerly Lennox Phillip, was the leader of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen which attempted to overthrow the NAR government on July 27, 1990. Police reported that Bakr, a diabetic, collapsed at his home at Long Circular &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54821\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abu Bakr dies at 80<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1,320],"tags":[359,150],"class_list":["post-54821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-passed-on","tag-newsday","tag-yasin-abu-bakr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54821","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=54821"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54828,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54821\/revisions\/54828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}