On the 30th anniversary of the attempted coup in 2020, Bakr infamously maintained there was “nothing to apologise for,” claiming that “the Privy council upheld our Amnesty and released us from prison.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, TrinidadPORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — The leader of an Islamic group that staged a deadly coup attempt 22 years ago in Trinidad went on trial Wednesday on charges of making seditious ...

The Muslim cleric who led a small army that stormed Trinidad & Tobago's parliament in a blaze of gunfire is a free man. Never convicted of any charges, he cheerfully presides over a mosque and school ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – The Muslim cleric who led a small army that stormed Trinidad & Tobago's parliament in a blaze of gunfire is a free man. Never convicted of any charges, he cheerfully presides ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – The Muslim cleric who led a small army that stormed Trinidad & Tobago’s parliament in a blaze of gunfire is a free man. Never convicted of any charges, he cheerfully presides ...

Just about everyone in Trinidad and Tobago has an opinion about Yasin Abu Bakr. The head of a radical Muslim sect called Jamaat al Muslimeen, or the Association of Muslims, he has the dubious ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — A sedition trial for the leader of an Islamic group that once staged a deadly coup attempt in Trinidad has ended with a hung jury. A judge ordered a retrial Thursday for ...

Two suspects arrested in Trinidad in connection with a purported plot to attack the fuel supply system at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport may have been visiting the Caribbean island nation in an ...

A radical Islamic group known for launching a bloody 1990 coup attempt in Trinidad faced growing scrutiny at home and abroad well before an alleged U.S. terrorist plot focused new attention on it. The ...

Imam Yasin Abu Bakr is not keeping quiet about having been denied entry to Jamaica earlier this week. And while the Government maintains it had nothing to do with the incident, the Imam is saying ...