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65% of murder victims are Afro-Trinidadians-TTPS stats

More young Afro-Trinidadian males are dying compared to males in any other age group or ethnicity.

In 2023, 136 Afro-Trinidadians (30 years old and under) were murdered, while 23 Indo-Trinidadians of the same age bracket were killed, according to data provided by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS).This means that 491 per cent more Afro-Trinidadian males (30 years old and under) are murdered than Indo-Trinidadian males of the same age.

According to Guardian Media’s calculations of the 2023 figures, an Afro-Trinidadian male of that age group was murdered, on average, every three days and an Indo-Trinidadian of that group was murdered every 16 days. Across all age groups and sexes, an Afro-Trinidadian is murdered every day while an Indo-Trinidadian is murdered every three-and-a-half days. The statistics requested from the TTPS included the races, sexes, ages and locations of all murder victims in 2002 and 2023.

Founder and director of the Black Agenda Project, Dr David Muhammad, has devoted much of his life to attempting to uplift young men from marginalised communities in East Port-of-Spain, particularly young Afro-Trinidadian men. Some of the young men he mentors were, and in a few cases are, gang members, but he refuses to write them off as lost causes. He believes that too many youths, especially Afro-Trinidadians, have been abandoned and scorned by society. “The national neglect and the national scorn that the State has completely turned its back on our young Black men, in particular, in our society … And with young people being targeted by gangs—in particular, to store illegal firearms on the premise that they are less likely to be stopped and searched or apprehended—it has roped them into this culture even earlier and adds to the doom that we are lamenting over.

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In reply to KTom

WE busy with we Fete Carnival....
Oil spill ha!!!!

In reply to sgtdjones

Are you surprised? probably 95% occurred in their neighborhood!