PM says murder toll down by 46%

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the mur­der toll has de­clined by ap­prox­i­mate­ly 46 per cent over the past two years, de­spite a re­cent spate of killings, in­clud­ing the mur­ders of two women at a Cou­va spa and at­tor­ney-at-law Tara­dath Singh this week.

In a so­cial me­dia post yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the num­ber of mur­ders had fall­en from 523 as of Oc­to­ber 28, 2024, to 305 in Oc­to­ber 2025 and 280 in Oc­to­ber 2026.

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She de­scribed the fig­ures as ev­i­dence of “re­al progress” in the fight against vi­o­lent crime, say­ing her Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment had pri­ori­tised con­fronting vi­o­lent crim­i­nal el­e­ments, strength­en­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and restor­ing pub­lic safe­ty.