PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dec 24, CMC – Police Commissioner, Erla Harewood-Christopher, says the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTS) is “disappointed” that despite all that it has done, the number f murders in the country has surpassed the 600 mark.
Last year, the country recorded 577 murders and with seven days to go before the end of this year, the figure is certain to rise.
Among the latest murders that now stand at 602, is that of Stacy Gopaulsingh, 36, who was stabbed to death at her home in Moruga in central south Trinidad, early on Monday.
The judicial support officer (JSO), who is said to have been three months pregnant, was killed while her common-law husband, 42, grabbed their three-year-old daughter and escaped by jumping out of a window.
The Trinidad South District Court employee’s body with multiple chop wounds in the living room. The laptop she used for work, a brown envelope containing TT$40,000(One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) and US$800 and the wedding bands were missing.
“We have done a significantly large amount of good work,” Harewood-Christopher said in a statement, adding that the criminal element in Trinidad and Tobago “persists and continues to create opportunities for violent crimes to be committed.
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