Farley credits THA investment for drop in murders in 2025

Af­ter record­ing its blood­i­est year in his­to­ry with 26 mur­ders in 2024—in­clud­ing the is­land’s first-ever quadru­ple mur­der—To­ba­go is now see­ing a sharp de­cline in killings, with on­ly three mur­ders record­ed for the first half of 2025.

And all three cas­es have been solved. For the same pe­ri­od last year, the is­land had record­ed 11 mur­ders—rep­re­sent­ing a 72 per cent de­cline in 2025 so far.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the progress is no ac­ci­dent. “Yes. Well, I feel good about where we are in com­par­i­son to last year,” Au­gus­tine said. “We ac­tu­al­ly got some no­tice­able shifts from Oc­to­ber last year to present, and it shows that it’s worth the in­vest­ments.”