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Vet­er­an jour­nal­ist Do­minic Kaliper­sad, who was the face on air dur­ing the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, says he is tired of retelling a sto­ry that con­tin­ues to be ig­nored by those in au­thor­i­ty.

“I’m tired talk­ing about it. The peo­ple at Trinidad and To­ba­go Tele­vi­sion (TTT) and at Ra­dio Trinidad, who were held hostage—none of them politi­cians, on­ly mere work­ers—were ig­nored af­ter the at­tempt­ed coup. No sym­pa­thy. No em­pa­thy. No recog­ni­tion for their courage and brav­ery dur­ing the six life-threat­en­ing days of trau­ma. Not even psy­cho­log­i­cal ther­a­py. Not even for their fam­i­lies, who were al­so trau­ma­tised.”

Kaliper­sad said for­mer TTT head Jones P Madeira, who played a crit­i­cal role in pro­tect­ing oth­ers, re­ceived no for­mal ac­knowl­edge­ment be­fore his death.