At the end of August 2025, Barbados had recorded at least 3 homicides between between the beginning of the month and the end of the month. For the year so far, i.e., January 1 to August 31, the island has had at least 34 homicides. Disclaimer: My count and analysis are based solely on media reports,…
Read More Barbados Homicide Statistics January to August 2025At the end of July 2025, Barbados had recorded at least 3 homicides between between the beginning of the month and the end of the month. For the year so far, i.e., January 1 to July 31, the island has had at least 31 homicides. Disclaimer: My count and analysis are based solely on media reports,…
Read More Barbados Homicide Statistics January to July 2025Are We Really Heading for 150 Murders? Recently, someone claimed on a popular social media platform that Barbados would see 150 murders by the end of 2025. This person also believed that this prediction is somehow linked to the country becoming a republic in 2021. That’s a interesting statement — but does the data support…
Read More 150 Murders in Barbados by Year-End? Let’s Do the MathOne of the advantages of maintaining a growing dataset — covering homicides in Barbados from 2016 to 2025, with over 300 recorded cases — is that it allows me to explore patterns and ask deeper questions. Take June 2025, for example. With nine recorded murders, it immediately stood out. That led me to ask: Have…
Read More A Closer Look at Barbados’ Deadliest MonthsAt the end of June 2025, Barbados had recorded at least 9 homicides between June 1st and June 30th. For the year so far, i.e., January 1 to June 30, the island has had at least 28 homicides. Disclaimer: My count and analysis are based solely on media reports, as such, my numbers may be under-stated.…
Read More Barbados Homicide Statistics January to June 2025In Part 1 of this blog series, I gave some background on the Barbados Safety Poll — how it came about, how it was run, and who responded. Now in Part 2, I dive into the actual responses and see how different groups of people answered the question: “How safe do you feel living in…
Read More Barbados Safety Poll – June 2025: Perceptions by Demographic (Part 2)Introduction Around the second week of June, I decided to launch an online poll that asked one simple question: “How safe do you feel living in Barbados today?” This was not meant to be a formal survey (while that would have been more rigorous, it would also be more expensive and complicated to carry out).…
Read More Barbados Safety Poll – June 2025: Background and Respondent Profile (Part 1)Tracking violent incidents in Barbados is central to everything I do here on the blog and in the homicide database. It all starts with checking the news periodically throughout the day and into the night. Once I find something related to violent crime, it becomes an incident. This also means that my numbers may understate…
Read More Tracking Violent Incidents in Barbados January to May 2025So in my last post, a few hours ago, I wrote about Pine-related areas and how often they appeared in Barbados homicide data. This time, I took a similar look at Black Rock, another district in St. Michael that seems to come up repeatedly (at least, between 2018 and 2025). (Quick reminder, my homicide information…
Read More Black Rock and St. Michael: A Closer Look at Homicide PatternsPinelands, St. Michael (Source: Google Maps). I use The Pine and Pinelands interchangeably. Last night I imported 2018 homicide records into the Barbados Homicide Database (still doing some data cleaning), bringing the total to 284 recorded homicides from 2018 to 2025. (Quick reminder, my homicide information comes from what I manually collect from main stream…
Read More The Pine and St. Michael: A Closer Look at Homicide Patterns