(Trinidad Express) There have been at least 420 homicides since the Peoples National Move-ment (PNM) won the general election eleven months ago. The figure is probably much higher given the number of missing and presumed dead people, and the number of bodies at the Forensic Science Centre, awaiting identification and autopsy.
The homicide toll on September 7, 2015 – the day the country went to the polls – was 288. That year would ended with a homicide toll of at least 410.
The shooting death of a man in Morvant on Wednesday took this year’s homicide figure to at least 298.
The homicide solve rate in Trinidad and Tobago is about 10 per cent which means that nine of every ten homicide will not be solved, and eight in every ten killings will be carried out using a gun.
And there are fewer “safe zones” on the islands, with the killing happening everywhere, outside the traditional hotspots.
