Former PM dies

Port-of-Spain (CMC):

Former president ANR Robinson died yesterday after a prolonged illness. He was 87.

Robinson, a former prime minister, died at the private St Clair Medical Hospital, where he had been a patient since March 8.

Robinson, who was shot in the leg and beaten during the attempt by members of the radical Jamaat Al Muslimeen group to overthrow his government in July 1990, had been confined to a wheelchair for several years.

In 2010, he suffered a convulsive seizure, fainting during a funeral, and had to be admitted to St Clair Medical for observation.

Robinson is the only person to serve as prime minister (1986-1991) and president (1997-2003) of Trinidad and Tobago.