The recent surge in gun play in Barbados has been featured prominently in the media over the last few days (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). On July 8, the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, The Honourable Dale Marshall, addressed this, and related matters, during a press conference (see…
Read More Barbados Murder Statistics 2017 to 2022There have been at least 15 murders for the year so far. The data presented below is from January to June 2022. The steps involved in this analysis are similar to my 2020 analysis. Note to Table 1: Data extracted from The NationNews and Barbados Today website (click to enlarge). Note to Chart 3: By…
Read More Barbados Murder Statistics January to June 2022The data presented below is from January to May 2022 (I will post 2021 numbers in the near future). The steps involved in the analysis essentially remain the same from the 2020 analysis. Note to Table 1: Data extracted from The Nation’s website. Note to Chart 3: By method, I mean, what did the attacker…
Read More Barbados Murder Statistics January to May 2022After a long hiatus (due in part to time spent tracking and posting data on Covid-19 and the 2022 General Elections), it’s time to catch up on tracking murders across Barbados. Data presented below is from January to April 2022 (I will post 2021 numbers in the near future). The steps involved in the analysis…
Read More Barbados Murder Statistics January to April 2022There were at least 42 murders in Barbados last year. Under normal circumstances, I publish murder stats on a monthly basis (I have data going back to 2017). However, COVID-19 analysis kept me busy for most of last year, and I quickly lost track of 2020 murders. This post remedies that and looks at all…
Read More Barbados Murder Statistics 2020