Barbados Murder Statistics January to December 2023

Image of Mitchell Anderson Nicholls
Mitchell Anderson Nicholls was found dead in a well on December 29 2023 (Image source: nationnews.com)

There have been at least nineteen murders in Barbados for 2023. January to December 2022 data and analysis can be found here. My analysis is based on media reports only. The steps involved in the following analysis are similar to my 2020 analysis.

Barbados Murder Map Jan to Dec 2023
Image 1 – Barbados Murder Map January to December 2023
Barbados Murder Table Jan to Dec 2023
Table 1 – Murders in Barbados January to December 2023

Note to Table 1: Data was obtained from reports in the Media and keyed into an Excel sheet for end of month analysis.

Barbados Murders by month chart, Jan to Dec 2023
Chart 1 – Murders by Month, January to December 2023
Barbados Murders by parish, Jan to Dec 2023.
Chart 2 – Murders by Parish, January to December 2023

37% of all murders took place in St. Michael during 2023.

Barbados Murders per capita by parish Table Jan to Dec 2023
Table 2 – Murders Per Capita by Parish, January to December 2023

Note to Table 2: I’ve added per capita by parish values because looking at the absolute value of murders by parish, without taking into consideration the population by parish, is not entirely accurate. For example, although St. Michael generally has the highest number of murders in absolute terms, when we factor in its population size, along with the number of murders and population sizes in other parishes, St. Michael is rarely the highest (one limitation worth noting here is that the population numbers would have changed since 2010).

Barbados Murders Jan to Dec per capita chart
Chart 3 – Murders Per Capita by Parish, January to December 2023
Barbados Murders - How Chart Jan to Dec 2023
Chart 4 – How, January to December 2023

14, or 77% of the 18 deaths (excluding ‘unknown’), were shooting related.

Barbados Murders by Age Group, Jan to Dec 2023
Chart 5 – Murders by Age Group, January to December 2023

The average age of victims was 34.1 years old. The eldest victim was 58 (Hendy Greaves, stabbing) while the youngest victim was 16 years old (name not known, stabbing).

Barbados Murders by gender Jan to Dec 2023
Chart 6 – Murders by Gender, January to December 2023

Of the 19 victims, 18 (94%) of them were male. The lone female victim, Joel Hope, was stabbed.

Barbados Murders workweek vs weekend Jan to Dec 2023
Chart 7 – Murders by Workweek/Weekend, January to December 2023

Note to Chart 7 – I define the weekend as Friday to Sunday, with the workweek running from Monday to Thursday. Excluding ‘unknown’, 71% of murders took place during the workweek.

Barbados Murders DOTW Jan to Dec 2023
Chart 8 – Murders by Day of the Week, January to December 2023

Excluding ‘unknown’, 22% of murders happened on a Tuesday during 2023.

Barbados Murders timeslot, Jan to Dec 2023.
Chart 9 – Murders by Time Slot, January to December 2023

Excluding ‘unknown’, 7, or 44% of murders in 2023 took place between 4 PM and 8 PM. The time reported in The Media of the incident is what I use to assign murders to one of six time slots. However, it is important to note that in some cases, this may not be when the victim was attacked (or their time of death). For example, in the case of Trey Akeem Kemar Murray (June 7 2022), The Nation reported that police arrived at the scene at 8:15 PM. As that was the only time mentioned, I used this and assigned it to the “F” period: 8 PM to 12 AM.

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