For­mer 1990 at­tempt­ed coup hostage Wen­dell Ever­s­ley, com­plet­ed the To­ba­go leg of his an­nu­al com­mem­o­ra­tion of the Ju­ly 27, 1990 in­sur­rec­tion yes­ter­day by walk­ing from the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to the gravesite of the for­mer Pres­i­dent and Prime Min­is­ter ANR Robin­son at Ba­co­let.

Ever­s­ley was joined by Chief Sec­re­tary An­cil Den­nis at the gravesite where he laid a wreath to high­light the role Robin­son played and the sig­nif­i­cance of the event in the coun­try’s his­to­ry. He said he con­tin­ues to un­der­take the ac­tiv­i­ty as he be­lieves that more should be done to re­mem­ber the peo­ple who lost their lives dur­ing the or­deal.

“It was my first day in Par­lia­ment and I was used as a hu­man shield and watch­ing Lau­ren Ba­borel­lo bleed out and die in front of my eyes and not be­ing able to as­sist her.”

He said more should be done to teach stu­dents not on­ly about the sig­nif­i­cance of the po­si­tion tak­en and the sac­ri­fice made by Robin­son in de­fence of democ­ra­cy.

“To­day I felt re­al­ly em­bar­rassed when a twen­ty-year-old fe­male who at­tend­ed one of the pres­ti­gious schools in Scar­bor­ough said she knows noth­ing about Ju­ly 27, 1990.”

Ever­s­ley tear­ful­ly com­mend­ed the Chief Sec­re­tary for be­ing the first hold­er of that of­fice to join him in com­mem­o­rat­ing the lega­cy of ANR Robin­son, as he car­ried on the tra­di­tion for 31 years be­cause he felt that he was alone in his ef­forts.

“Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar called for a Com­mis­sion of En­quiry and why is it to­day I have to be tak­ing this up thir­ty-one years now. I want to quit but we must rec­og­nize our his­to­ry.”

Chief Sec­re­tary An­cil Den­nis who con­grat­u­lat­ed Ever­s­ley for his tire­less com­mit­ment said he was three years old at the time of the at­tempt­ed coup. He agreed that “more should be done to amend the school cur­ricu­lum to in­clude lo­cal his­to­ry es­pe­cial­ly in the field of pol­i­tics.”

Ever­s­ley called on To­bag­o­ni­ans to do more to cel­e­brate and re­mem­ber the con­tri­bu­tion of ANR Robin­son as he said he has been con­tin­u­ous­ly ask­ing sev­er­al ad­min­is­tra­tions to do more to high­light the sig­nif­i­cance of the in­sur­rec­tion. He high­light­ed sev­er­al in­stanced where mil­lions of dol­lars were al­leged­ly mis­spent by the gov­ern­ments through­out the years yet “they refuse to spend $500 on a wreath for Mr Robin­son.”

He called on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to host a sim­i­lar wreath-lay­ing ex­er­cise in Trinidad next week where he will walk from Ari­ma to Port-of-Spain.