Caribbean Murder Rates Are Spiraling As Illegal Guns Flood In
Will demands for U.S. action help slow gunrunning to a region where the homicide rate is triple the global average?
PORT OF SPAIN — The Peterkin family was asleep in their home in the Trinidad and Tobago village of Heights of Guanapo on September 21 when gunmen unloaded weapons—including an assault rifle—on the family of nine. The brazen crime, now known as the Guanapo murders, killed four of the Peterkins’ children, including a ten-year-old girl, and wounded the other five, shocking a nation already indignant about soaring gun violence. Less than a month later, the Trinidad police announced the country’s largest-ever seizure of weapons, including high-powered sub-machine guns, fueling concern...
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