After President Arthur N.R. Robinson appointed Patrick Manning as Prime Minister on Christmas Eve 2001 following the 18-18 tie murder rate began to climb again, reaching an unprecedented high of 550 by 2008.
The People's partnership fought the 2010 general election and won on a pledge to deal with crime. And it immediately started making a difference.
The new government, led by PRime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, took office on May 26, 2010 and the number of serious crimes immediately started to fall; murders for that year were 485 as compared the 509 in 2009 and the record of 550 in 2008.
In 2011 new strategies began yielding results. However by August, after a significant decrease in crime was recorded, there was a spike in gang warfare leading to 11 murders within a 48 hour period.
That was followed by the declaration of a state of emergency on August 23, which had caused a dramatic decline in all crime.
The chart below, produced for JYOTI by Dr Wayne Jaggernauth, presents the statistics in graphic detail. Please click on chart to see details in a new, larger window.
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