Keeping track: T&T homicides reach 508

Murders committed in 2008: 547
Number solved in 2009: 20
Source: Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert.

A letter from Richard Thomas:

Thoroughly alarmed by The Jumbie's commentary The horrible truth revealed that alerted of a Trinidad Guardian article, I was forced to take a break from my respite and put finger to keyboard more widely to disseminate what The Jumbie had concluded:

"The reality is that the true 2009 murder toll in Trinidad and Tobago potentially is 1,413...and counting!"

Jumbie's conclusion is reasonable one, for, as he deduced, when the stats re: persons reported missing in 2009 alone, are merged with the "official" 2k9 YTD murder toll of 508, that thousand-plus figure is what one gets.

Broken down, the missing-persons stats suggest that, per day, during 2009, three human beings have vanished each day without a trace, since the current YTD figure is 904.

Another conclusion is that T&T has lost its soul, thence its way, for it's incomprehensible and reprehensible that for so many of no account can be given, while the rest of us continue wining and dining without giving a fahrt.

But then...say what...!

Richard Wm. Thomas,
5rivers.kid.publik@gmail.com