The forgotten dead - 7 bodies unclaimed

TRINIDAD’S troubling problem of destitute, unclaimed and forgotten people dying on the streets has been brought into sharp focus again, with police appealing to the public to help identify seven bodies found across parts of North and Central Trinidad over the past five years.

The bodies and human remains were discovered in St Augustine, St Joseph, Curepe and Tunapuna between October 2021 and March 2026. Among them are men believed to have been in their 50s and 60s, a person whose identity remains unknown, a skull and skeletal remains classified as those of a John or Jane Doe.

One of the men was found on October 17, 2024, outside the northern entrance of the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex. He was believed to have been in his 60s and was described as being of East Indian descent, with long, grey, unkempt hair. He was wearing brown long pants, a dark blue shirt and old boots.