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Fuad Abu Bakr
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Fuad Abu Bakr (b. August 30, 1985) is a Trinidad and Tobago politician, businessman and community activist who is the leader of the New National Vision political party.[1]
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Early life and education
Fuad Abu Bakr was born in 1985, the son of Yasin Abu Bakr, head of the Jamaat al Muslimeen, and his wife Atiyah (formerly Grace Telesford).[2] He is one of his father's 15 children.[3] When Abu Bakr was four his father attempted to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago.[2]
Abu Bakr completed his secondary education at Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain,[2] and then spent two years studying Arabic and Islamic jurisprudence at the Islamic Call Society's college in Libya.[3] He later studied at Kingston University and at the City, University of London, both in the United Kingdom.[1]
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Political career
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Fuad Abu Bakr is the political leader of the New National Vision.[1]
Under Abu Bakr's leadership, the NNV contested 12 of 41 seats in the 2010 general elections.[4] Abu Bakr was a candidate for the Port of Spain North/Saint Ann's West, and placed third, receiving 93 of 13,344 votes cast.[5]
In the 2015 general elections Abu Bakr contested the Diego Martin West seat and came fourth of six candidates. He received 194 of 17,026 votes cast.[6] In the 2020 general elections he ran for the Port of Spain South seat and came fourth. He received 147 of 10,452 votes cast.[7]
Abu Bakr was arrested on June 30, 2020[8] during riots in Port of Spain over the killing of three men, Joel Jacob, Noel Diamond and Israel Clinton, by police.[9] He was charged with "using violent language to provoke persons to commit a breach of the peace" and breaking regulations associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. He was also charged with obstructing a police officer, and three counts of assaulting a police officer in connection with a Black Lives Matter protest earlier that month in Port of Spain.[8] His father, Yasin Abu Bakr, claimed his son has been trying to calm protestors, not incite them, when he was arrested.[10] Charges against Abu Bakr stemming from the BLM protest was dismissed in May 2023 after the police officer who filed the charges repeatedly failed to appear in court.[11]
In the 2025 general elections he is a candidate for the Port of Spain South seat representing the NNV.[12] He was the party's only candidate,[13] and has endorsed the UNC as "best hope for poor and disenfranchised citizens".[14] On April 9 he led a protest in east Port of Spain against Keith Scotland, the member of parliament for Port of Spain South, questioning the ruling People's National Movement's commitment to "uplift[ing] African people" what it meant to be a "PNM stronghold".[15]
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Personal life
Abu Bakr is married to Kristy Ramnarine, a television producer at CNC3.[16] Footballer Radanfah Abu Bakr is one of his brothers.[17]
Electoral history
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References
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