Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has point­ed to po­lice sta­tis­tics which she says show a de­cline in mur­ders un­der her ad­min­is­tra­tion, ar­gu­ing that the da­ta demon­strate the ef­fec­tive­ness of the Gov­ern­ment’s crime-fight­ing mea­sures and the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

In a state­ment is­sued on her so­cial me­dia pages yes­ter­day evening, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said that from Jan­u­ary 2026 to Ju­ly 20, 2026, there were 213 mur­ders, com­pared with 331 dur­ing the cor­re­spond­ing pe­ri­od in 2024, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) last full year in of­fice. She said this rep­re­sent­ed 118 few­er mur­ders over the pe­ri­od.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so claimed that, based on mur­der rates record­ed dur­ing 2023 and 2024, there had been ap­prox­i­mate­ly 400 few­er mur­ders across 2025 and 2026 com­bined than would have been pro­ject­ed had those trends con­tin­ued.