THIRTY-FIVE years after Police Constable Solomon McLeod was killed in the line of duty during the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen’s 1990 coup attempt, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) and Commissioner of Police Allister Guevarro yesterday paused to remember the young life lost in defence of his country.

Standing at the gravesite in Indian Walk, Princes Town, where McLeod was buried decades ago, Guevarro warned that the nation was again going through “trying times” in the midst of a state of emergency and the reports of planned criminal attacks against the protective services and Judiciary which prompted it.

PAYING HOMAGE: Earl McLeod, his nephews Ibrahim and Kahaleen Khan and sister Auleth McLeod-Khan pay tribute at PC McLeod’s grave yesterday.