“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
– Edward Snowden.
TTPS STATISTICS: Reported Murders in Trinidad & Tobago 2013 – 2025
With the TTPS website’s upgrade in the first half of 2026, detailed crime statistics have been made harder to access and understand, and we wonder how that could have been done accidentally. Thankfully, we have screenshots of the relevant stats, and we provide them here in the public interest. Compare these screenshots with this external, independently acquired January 2026 Archive.org snapshot (click “Table” tab) to verify that the resource did indeed exist in the exact format presented here. Also compare these stats with this CSO table (screenshot). Below the comparison table are the Murders stats that were published on the TTPS website as late as February 2026. Accessing this type of monthly breakdown used to take just a few clicks. It has been made much harder with the TTPS’ new crime stats dashboard, and some of these stats are now gone, making it difficult to do a detailed comparison across recent parliamentary terms.
Original TTPS data in spreadsheet format. | Same data in a single Graphic.
Original TTPS & CSO Stats vs. New TTPS Stats: Reported Murders
2024 – The over two dozen missing victims for this year are especially interesting. Several local and international sources quoted our high murder toll for that year after the PNM Gov’t declared a State of Emergency on December 30th. See the BBC and CNN. In the BBC article the Ag. Attorney General gave a figure of 61 homicides for December alone, how is it now only 32? Additionally, in September 2025 our own PM quoted a murder toll of 623 when addressing the UN at the 80th Session of the General Assembly. See her here at about the 2:50 mark.
OVERALL – Unless they were mistakes (which appears unlikely), the adjustments made in 2026 seem to have been designed to invalidate or cast doubt on certain patterns we discovered in their original data: 1. The stability, then striking escalations, then rapid return to “normalcy” of the combined murder tolls for the months of May & June, from 2013 to 2025 (see chart on homepage). 2. Only since 1991’s General Elections (coincidentally, the first contested by the UNC), has every PNM General Elections victory been followed by a double-digit percentage increase in the murder toll in the next calendar year. 3. The annual record for murders was broken twice in 26 months. The new records each came just in time for major elections (one Local Gov’t, and one General).
Original TTPS Stats: Reported Murders By Month: 2013 – 2025
