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Update to Year to Date 2025 Homicides stats by Barbados Crime blog.

The body of 20-year-old Amani Kanye Lorde (Image Source: Barbados Today)

At the end of April 2025, Barbados had recorded at least 4 homicides between April 1st and April 30th. For the year so far, i.e., January 1 to April 30, the island has had at least 17 homicides.

Disclaimer: My count and analysis are based solely on media reports, as such, numbers may be under-stated. The figures and insights provided below should not be considered official or final.

This website, barbadoscrimeblog.com, is a spin-off from caribbeansignal.com. Past data on homicides in Barbados can be found on caribbeansignal.com using various tags such as “Murders.” There is also the Barbados Homicide Database where you can run your own reports.

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30 responses to “Homicides continue to rise (Jan to April 2025)”

  1. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Lord, why did you have to show me poor Amani’s demise again? Now it’ll take me days to put his nine year old face out of my mind again. I knew this youngster. I knew his mother. I knew his deceased father. I knew his deceased grandfather. His brother. His aunts. I still see his nine year old face because when last I saw him, he was nine. I don’t know what happened between then and now, but this is certainly not the end I imagined.

    What are we going to do? There was another murder last night! It’s one a week. I remember when it was one a month.

  2. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Men killing other men (mostly).
    I am glad that it is not men killing women or children.
    I am sorry that the men are killing each other.
    I think that men can learn some non-violence tactics from women.
    What is it that women think and do, even women from the same families of male killers, that prevents women from killing?
    I think that we need to have that conversation.
    But chances are male arrogance, including the arrogance and entitled older males will prevent that conversation from being started.

    And while we wait, dozens of our young men are murdered every year.

    And dozens more are imprisoned for all of their youth.

    And the children of these young men suffer.

  3. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    CORRECTIONS:

    From the same families as

    entitlement of

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Who plays an important part socializing boys and men? Yours is a simplistic argument.

  5. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    And yours is simplistic argument arrogance and entitlement.

  6. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @David May 7, 2025 at 3:16 pm “Who plays an important part socializing boys and men?”

    Parents.

    I haven’t heard of anybody being raised by wolves since I read about Romulus and Remus in a story book when I was 10.

  7. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Dear David:

    Has any accused [or lawyer defending the accused] ever said “mummy told me to kill he.”

    Ever David?

  8. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Deaths will always go up as you can’t bring them back from the dead

    So we are talking about the rates of deaths

    Now Who to Blame?

    Cuhdear Bajan: “Men”

    David: “Dancehall”

    Now Let’s drill a little deeper shall we in the mix:

    Gangs
    Gangsters
    Urbanites
    Youths
    Poor
    Unemployed
    Uneducated

    For the Record..I said “Violins” not “Violence”

  9. TheOG Avatar
    TheOG

    Some see ‘having a man’ as a solution to every problem.

    Cuhdear sees being a man as a problem.

    I hope she treats her nephews kindly and masks her hatred of men from her nieces.

    Good morning, luv

  10. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    What Cuhdear refuses to recognise is that men are more aggressive by design and therefore will be more inclined to violence. Most women don’t have to learn to be less violent. They just are.

    So, one does not need to frame the solution in respect to what techniques can be learnt from women. This only creates a defensive posture from men, whose large egos you have already noted.

    P.S. Yes. I personally know of a young man whose mother encouraged him to kill his brother, her other son, because her mother had bypassed her to leave her property to him. Before he was shot dead, the young man told relatives that he believed his mother was plotting his demise. On the day he was murdered, he had secured a bank loan to purchase land to build a house for himself, because he did not want any part of his grandmother’s property. He did not get the chance to tell her.

    And, there are many other Barbadian mothers who accept the proceeds of drug trafficking from their sons, knowing that violence is part of the package.

  11. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Heavenly Healing for the Gun Fever in the Area Murderer
    On a metaphysical level I am a lover and not a fighter and trust I am a son of the cosmos not a slave or a sinner I am and very intelligent and can control everything like a daoist with a belief that I can learn it and can do it and have learned how to give blessings commands and messages from the heavens like the popes cardinals and priests.

    Stop your fighting sicknesses

    Fever, The Flu, Stop Yer Fighting, Conscious Man, Careless Ethiopians Repent

  12. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Woman and Man
    In This Iwa
    See mi man a warrior
    Woman a warrior too
    See mi man a lick pipe
    Woman a lick pipe too
    See mi man a sling gun
    Woman a sling gun too
    See mi man a screw-face
    Woman a screw-face too

    This world can be beautiful
    With just a little more love

    See mi man a praise Jah
    Woman a praise Jah too
    While Rasta a praise Jah
    Babylon must go down

    This world can be beautiful
    If you try

  13. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @TheOG May 8, 2025 at 7:40 am “Cuhdear sees being a man as a problem.
    I hope she treats her nephews kindly and masks her hatred of men from her nieces.”

    I treat all of my nephews with kindness and respect. They all love me.

    I don’t hate men. I hate violence. I am simply responding to the data in the public domain that so far this year all of the ALLEGED killers are male, as are the great majority of the victims.

  14. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    The Gospel according to Saint Matthew, chapter 5 verse 22 “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.”

  15. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Donna May 8, 2025 at 7:01 pm “What Cuhdear refuses to recognise is that men are more aggressive by design and therefore will be more inclined to violence.”

    We all acknowledge that most men do not murder. Most men do not commit violence. What then is the difference between those who are violent and those who are not?

    We all get angry from time to time -me too- but how is it that some of us do NOT act on those angry/violent feelings, and some of us have zero self restraint?

    Can self restraint be taught?

    Can self restraint be learned?

    That is the question.

    Does anybody have any answers?

  16. David Avatar
    David

    Police probing RBC robbery

    THIEVES FLED THE SCENE in a silver grey SUV after robbing transit officers from a security company of money and a firearm yesterday.

    According to police, the security officers were in the process of transacting business along the High Street, Bridgetown, St Michael section of RBC Royal Bank when two armed assailants exited the SUV and took a number of bags with money as well as the weapon.

    There were no reports of injuries. The incident occurred around 9:30 a.m. yesterday and investigations are continuing.

    Anyone with information who may have witnessed this incident is asked to contact The Crime Stoppers hotline at 1800-8477, Police Emergency at 211 or the Criminal Investigations Department at 430-7189 or 430-7190. (PR/SAT)

    Source: Nation

  17. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @David May 12, 2025 at 2:26 am “…two armed assailants…”

    Probably 2 women David.

    Probably Simple Simon and she grand daughter. Maybe the police biased and out there looking for two young men.

  18. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    There are many woman killers in movies on TV but they are just actresses in stories

    In the past males were dominant fighters due to their physical strength
    but guns have empowered woman to be killers too

    Here is a Colombian hitwoman called the doll arrested 5 months ago

  19. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Yes, obviously, self-restraint can be learnt. We just don’t need to make it a “look at the women” issue because it gets male egos going.

    Regarding the two bank robbers – how much of the proceeds will be eagerly received by girlfriends or even mothers, with no questions asked of two unemployed or underemployed men?

  20. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Donna “how much of the proceeds will be eagerly received by girlfriends or even mothers, with no questions asked of two unemployed or underemployed men?”

    I don’t know, except that I am certain that I won’t get any.

    I don’t know that men does hand out money, easy, easy so. Certainly that has not been my experience.

    I knew a man once that won $50,000 on the lotto and he gave the mother of his two children $500 and told her that that amount is “nuff”

    Some men are not as generous as people seem to believe.

  21. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    “Some men are not as generous as people seem to believe.”
    ~~~~~~~
    No one would be surprised at your personal experiences here SS.

    Still too much info….

  22. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    And I knew a man who won two hundred thousand dollars and built his outside woman a whole “board bungalow”. He extracted his payment in sex and blows. The woman once told me that she would be a fool to let to a man dirty her up without buying her soap.

    I have been informed by several women that if you appear to be too independent you will be left to take care of yourself. Maybe that is your problem. I know it was mine.

    I doubt that the girlfriends of the criminals are too independent. They will likely provide the sex and take the blows.

  23. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Ladies.

  24. TheOG Avatar
    TheOG

    “I don’t know that men does hand out money, easy, easy so. Certainly that has not been my experience.”

    It may be your attitude that created your experience.

    I consider myself as a kind person and willing to help out where I see a need. I help my wife, and she helps me. It is a symbiotic relationship.

    In your case, I would be borrowing/asking for money and with no thought of lending of giving. The woman help makes the man.

    They are a lot of horror stories out there and those stories make the news. Hardly anyone notices or hear of the quiet men who go about their business. The good news that is no news.

  25. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    I have been listening to VOB Brasstacks. Some Bajans are evil.

  26. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    YOU are not the arbiter of what is too much info.

    Post on Cuhdear Bajan! Even though you are posting pure poppycock at present, you are in the company of men who are allowed to post their “lotta shite” without challenge.

    Next story, please!

  27. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    I try to be quiet, and to do my own business, and to work with my own hands, as commanded by the Scriptures.

    And tobesides my skin soft. I can’t imagine taking blows from anybody, not even from a billionaire.

    Horrified at that trial taking place in New York now and to see that very young woman being punched and dragged ’bout worse than a dog.

    I would rather earn my own modest living. Thank wunna very much.

  28. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Donna May 12, 2025 at 5:09 pm “The woman once told me that she would be a fool to let to a man dirty her up without buying her soap.”

    Why does she regard her man as dirty?

    And if he is dirty, isn’t she dirty too?

    Remember the old saying “if you lay down with dogs, you will get up with fleas”

    Does she regard her man as a dirty dog?

  29. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Another.

    https://starcomnetwork.net/blog/2025/05/14/shooting-incident-at-wharfdale-road-leaves-two-injured/

  30. David Avatar
    David

    The break-up of traditional households’ role in violence

    This article was written and submitted by Professor Sir Errol R.Walrond

    Some 50 years ago there was an informal forum where politicians from both parties and others would gather, relax and candidly discuss issues of the day. I recall a new minister stating that their first priority was to get the streets clean “for the tourists”. He was met with the retort from someone at the table that they should “get the streets clean for us first, then they would be clean for the tourists”.

    The echoes of this type of thinking persist to this day as with the tax relief for repairs/improvement on villas but none for “ordinary” house owners, or the recent Holetown redevelopment plan.

    Satisfying tourists

    On that occasion 50 years ago, the conversation shifted to other topics of development and it was posited that Jamaica had gone the way of satisfying the “tourists” need for a marijuana fix and the accompanying gun enforcement of the trade had evolved into corruption of some elements in the police force and had become embedded in the political culture.

    It was posited then that lest we go the same route, we should try to stem the growing culture that any dispute or burglary is best met by a gun. The new minister roundly ticked off by the comment, declared that it was foolish to believe that Barbados would ever follow the path of Jamaica in this respect, and to emphasise his point, he pulled his own gun from his pocket, put it on the table and announced that “anyone who troubled him would get a piece of this”.

    I silently hoped then, that the situation I left in Jamaica would never be manifest here. For I recalled when I had asked a colleague who was running for political office, how they were planning to cope with the increasing reports of guns being issued by the opposing party, the response was “We will match them gun for gun”.

    That chilling connection between armed “gangs” and political figures was established in Jamaica back then.

    I decided not to engage in that conversation with the new minister and perhaps I should have done, for one has seen over the years a gun brandished in our parliament and alleged “drug lords” invited to the Opening of Parliament.

    We have recently heard what I heard in Jamaica so many years ago, “law abiding” citizens vociferously arguing that they must be armed, not just the police and the army. I knew several such vociferous gun owners who lived to regret their boasts when they became targets to get their guns, most emigrated in great haste.

    Blamed for violence

    So far, the responses here in Barbados mirror those in Jamaica so many years ago. The young men and boys from poor communities are blamed for the violence and often pay with their lives. The police are called upon to be no-nonsense in their response, and attendance at church is proclaimed the answer.

    However, it appears that in spite of the proliferation of churches in both communities they have not yet found the way of getting most young males into their congregations as in times past. In all these years, I have never heard the church ask why they no longer attract those soprano voices into the choir or any other part of church activity?

    How many in our community proclaim that we are on the path to madness but are loathe to learn the lessons from similar communities that have trodden a similar path?

    Poor households

    Part of that pathway is the neglect of early childhood education and placing the blame on parents, particularly those from poor households.

    We refuse to acknowledge that part of the development of our community has been the breakup of the traditional households where capable women, and some men, were outside of the workforce and with a primary school education only could not only provide parental guidance they were educated enough to push their children to strive for a better education.

    Our governance in our Caribbean countries has properly taken pride in education achievements at the secondary and tertiary levels and the performance of those people both abroad and at home. But our governments should not feel that the provision of “free” education is their only responsibility, the quality of that education at all levels must be their prime concern.

    It is time to rescue those who are still left behind, and no amount of trying to blame the parents, or a particular assessment process, will do, other than increase the resort to violence as the only means of validation of those who feel left behind.

    Source: Nation

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