Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu will meet for­mer Na­tion­al Al­liance for Re­con­struc­tion (NAR) hostage Wen­dell Ever­s­ley to­day as he be­gins his an­nu­al walk from Ari­ma to the Red House, Port-of-Spain, in re­mem­brance of the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup.

On Ju­ly 27, 1990, the Ja­maat al Mus­limeen, led by Yasin Abu Bakr, made an un­suc­cess­ful at­tempt to over­throw the then NAR Gov­ern­ment, hold­ing hostages for five days at Par­lia­ment and TTT.