Days of Wrath: The 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago

A full decade before the horrific attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, the small Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago came under its own terrorist assault from a small fundamentalist Muslim group known as the Jamaat al Muslimeen.

For six days in 1990, the country, a former British colony that had achieved its independence in 1962, was virtually held for ransom as the terrorists launched an armed invasion of the sitting Parliament and the country''s lone television station.

Days of Wrath recounts the six days of terror wrought by a handful of Muslim terrorists. Told by a seasoned journalist who was one of the hostages in the Trinidad and Tobago Television building, this sensational account describes in vivid detail the scene that had the citizens of the nation wondering if they would now have to submit to another form of colonization.

Raoul Pantin, 63, is a former editor of The Trinidad Express Newspaper, and a former business, general and political reporter for radio, television and newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago. He retired from The Trinidad Express in 2005.

A graduate of Fatima College in Trinidad, he is also the holder of a diploma in journalism from the Thomson Foundation in Cardiff, Wales. He has participated in a variety of journalism courses, including a seminar in journalism at the University of Chicago. He has lectured in colleges and universities in the United States, and parts of the Caribbean and South America.

Raoul Pantin is a recipient of many awards for excellence in journalism and has been recognized as a short story writer, and stage and screen playwright. His 1974 screenplay, ?Bim, ? was produced and directed by the late American editor of ?Midnight Cowboy, Hugh A. Robertson. ?Bim? has been hailed as one of the best films made in Trinidad and Tobago. Pantin is also the author of ?Journey, ? a collection of poetry.

In 2006, he was honored by British Petroleum (BP) Trinidad and Tobago, in conjunction with the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago (MATT) and the Trinidad and Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters, (TTPBA), at the annual Luminaries of Journalism Award for outstanding journalism. Pantin is the author of BLACK POWER DAY and THE HISTORY OF THE TRINIDAD EXPRESS NEWSPAPER.