Raoul Pantin
Raoul Pantin | |
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| Born | 5 June 1943 Trinidad |
| Died | 15 January 2015 (aged 71) Cascade, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Education | Fatima College University of Chicago |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor, poet and playwright |
Raoul Pantin (5 June 1943 – 15 January 2015) was a Trinidad and Tobago journalist, editor, poet and playwright. He penned six plays during his career. Pantin survived the 1990 Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt and terrorist attack, in which he and other employees of the Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) station were held hostage for six days. He later chronicled his first-hand account of the coup attempt in a 163-page book, Days of Wrath: The 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago.