TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MURDER COUNT 2026: Weekly Updated Dashboard
2026 / WEEKLY RECORD
Week 39: Sep 21 – Sep 27
Coverage ends . Later weeks are not included.
- Murders that week
- 2
- Change from Week 38
- -3
- Four-week average
- 4.00
Counts from the published TriniLulz table. The average covers Weeks 36-39; these are counts, not population-based rates.
Last 12 published weeks
Murders recorded each week. All values are also in the table.
The weekly record
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| Week | Reporting period | Murders that week | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 1 – Jan 4 | 5 | 5 |
| 2 | Jan 5 – Jan 11 | 9 | 14 |
| 3 | Jan 12 – Jan 18 | 9 | 23 |
| 4 | Jan 19 – Jan 25 | 7 | 30 |
| 5 | Jan 26 – Feb 1 | 3 | 33 |
| 6 | Feb 2 – Feb 8 | 4 | 37 |
| 7 | Feb 9 – Feb 15 | 9 | 46 |
| 8 | Feb 16 – Feb 22 | 10 | 56 |
| 9 | Feb 23 – Mar 1 | 7 | 63 |
| 10 | Mar 2 – Mar 8 | 2 | 65 |
| 11 | Mar 9 – Mar 15 | 8 | 73 |
| 12 | Mar 16 – Mar 22 | 4 | 77 |
| 13 | Mar 23 – Mar 29 | 10 | 87 |
| 14 | Mar 30 – Apr 5 | 6 | 93 |
| 15 | Apr 6 – Apr 12 | 7 | 100 |
| 16 | Apr 13 – Apr 19 | 9 | 109 |
| 17 | Apr 20 – Apr 26 | 7 | 116 |
| 18 | Apr 27 – May 3 | 10 | 126 |
| 19 | May 4 – May 10 | 9 | 135 |
| 20 | May 11 – May 17 | 9 | 144 |
| 21 | May 18 – May 24 | 7 | 151 |
| 22 | May 25 – May 31 | 11 | 162 |
| 23 | Jun 1 – Jun 7 | 11 | 173 |
| 24 | Jun 8 – Jun 14 | 7 | 180 |
| 25 | Jun 15 – Jun 21 | 9 | 189 |
| 26 | Jun 22 – Jun 28 | 5 | 194 |
| 27 | Jun 29 – Jul 5 | 9 | 203 |
| 28 | Jul 6 – Jul 12 | 4 | 207 |
| 29 | Jul 13 – Jul 19 | 11 | 218 |
| 30 | Jul 20 – Jul 26 | 4 | 222 |
| 31 | Jul 27 – Aug 2 | 4 | 226 |
| 32 | Aug 3 – Aug 9 | 6 | 232 |
| 33 | Aug 10 – Aug 16 | 2 | 234 |
| 34 | Aug 17 – Aug 23 | 6 | 240 |
| 35 | Aug 24 – Aug 30 | 7 | 247 |
| 36 | Aug 31 – Sep 6 | 3 | 250 |
| 37 | Sep 7 – Sep 13 | 6 | 256 |
| 38 | Sep 14 – Sep 20 | 5 | 261 |
| 39 | Sep 21 – Sep 27 | 2 | 263 |
SOURCES & METHOD
How to read this tracker
- Reporting periods
- Weeks run Monday-Sunday in Trinidad & Tobago time. Week 1 is the short opening period, 1-4 January 2026.
- What the numbers represent
- TriniLulz describes the series as compiled from media reports. It is not an official TTPS series. Individual report citations are not listed in the current article.
- Counts and comparisons
- A running total adds the weekly counts. A weekly average is not a murder rate per 100,000 people. Cross-year or population-based comparisons require compatible source data.
- Missing values and revisions
- Unresolved values are labelled as such, never assumed to be zero. The current coverage stops at Week 39. A change to an earlier week needs a source and a dated revision note.
TTPS Crime Division Totals provides official context; it does not verify this weekly media-based series. Corrections and updates policy.
Revision notes
Current baseline: the saved article was updated on 28 September 2026. The notes below compare it with the previous reviewed table.
Layout release: this presentation retains the saved figures without correcting them.
Satisfactory
The table totals 263 but the saved summary says 264. Acceptance preserves a visible unresolved-total notice.
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The existing summary and graphic are retained here. Their figures and caption have not been corrected by R9.
This article is updated every Monday with the previous week’s murder count tally.
Total Murders So Far in 2026: 264
Murders This Week (Week 39): 2
Change From Previous Week:-3
Highest Week So Far: 11
Lowest Week So Far:1
Week 39 Analysis: What Changed?
Week 39 closes with just 2 murders, bringing the year-to-date total to 264 across thirty-nine weeks. This is tied with Weeks 10 and 33 for the lowest weekly tally recorded so far in 2026. It also marks a further decline from the 5 murders recorded in Week 38 and keeps the most recent stretch of the year firmly below the pace seen during much of the first half.
The short-term trend has become increasingly notable. Weeks 36 through 39 recorded 3, 6, 5 and 2 murders, producing just 16 murders over four weeks—an average of 4 per week. Looking back over the most recent eight weeks, the country recorded 37 murders, an average of approximately 4.6 per week. Both figures are substantially below the overall 2026 rate.
With thirty-nine weeks completed, the year-to-date average now stands at approximately 6.8 murders per week. Week 39’s tally of 2 is less than one-third of that average. The last ten weeks have also produced just 45 murders, averaging 4.5 per week, suggesting that the moderation seen since Week 30 is no longer simply the result of one or two unusually low weeks.
The data therefore continues to show a sustained reduction in the weekly murder pace during the latter part of 2026. That does not mean the trend cannot reverse, particularly given the sharp fluctuations recorded earlier in the year, but the current period is now long enough to stand apart from the brief dips seen previously. If weekly totals remain near these levels through October, the second half of 2026 will increasingly represent a materially lower period of lethal violence than the first half of the year.
These stats are prepared via media reports.
These stats are heavily influenced by the SOE which ended in February. The government also redeclared a SOE in early March. For our SOE coverage see here.
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