Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Williams ya mutu a 1981, wanda George Chambers ya maye gurbinsa wanda ya jagoranci kasar har zuwa 1986. A wannan lokacin faɗuwar farashin mai ya jawo koma bayan tattalin arziki, wanda ya jawo hauhawar farashin kayayyaki da kuma rashin aikin yi. Manyan jam'iyyun adawa sun haɗu a ƙarƙashin tutar National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR) kuma sun ci babban zaben Trinidad da Tobago na 1986, tare da shugaban NAR A. N. R. Robinson ya zama sabon Firayim Minista. Robinson bai iya rike haɗin gwiwar NAR mai rauni ba, kuma rikice-rikicen zamantakewar ya haifar da gyare-gyaren tattalin arzikinsa, kamar rage darajar kudin da aiwatar da Shirin Gyara Tsarin Gida na Asusun Ba da Lamuni na Duniya. A cikin 1990 mambobi 114 na Jamaat al Muslimeen, wanda Yasin Abu Bakr ya jagoranta (wanda aka sani da Lennox Phillip) ya mamaye Red House (wurin zama na majalisar), da kuma Trinidad da Tobago Television, tashar talabijin kawai a kasar a wancan lokacin,
rike Robinson da gwamnatin kasar a matsayin 'yan gudun hijira na tsawon kwanaki shida kafin mika wuya. An yi wa shugabannin juyin mulkin alkawarin afuwa, amma bayan sun mika wuya sai aka kama su, amma daga baya aka sake su bayan doguwar jayayya ta shari'a.