Six Adults And 50 Infants Were Found ‘Illegally Dumped’ In Trinidad And Tobago

The remains of at least 50 infants and six adults were found on Saturday after they had seemingly been dumped at a cemetery in Trinidad and Tobago.

A preliminary investigation revealed it ‘may be a case involving the unlawful disposal of unclaimed corpses,’ the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service said in a statement.

The gruesome find was made at Cumuto Cemetery, approximately 25 miles from the capital, Port of Spain, in Trinidad.

Police said the six adult remains included four male and two female corpses, with all but one of the men found with identification tags.

There were indications that two of the bodies—one male and one female—had undergone postmortems.

They did not immediately say if any of the bodies had been identified.

‘The TTPS stresses that this is an active and developing investigation, and further forensic analysis is underway to determine the origin of the remains and any associated breaches of law or procedure,’ the statement said.

Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro called the discovery ‘deeply troubling,’ saying his agency was handling the case ‘with urgency, sensitivity and unwavering commitment to uncovering the truth.’

‘Every cadaver must be handled with dignity and lawful care,’ he added, saying that ‘any individual or institution found to have violated that duty will be held fully accountable.’

Trinidad and Tobago, an English-speaking archipelago nation located about 10 six miles off the Venezuelan coast, has been plagued in recent years with increasing violent crime, recording 623 murders in 2024 among the inhabitants of 1.5 million.

A US State Department report said the murder rate of 37 per 100,000 people made Trinidad and Tobago the sixth most dangerous nation in the world in 2023.

The murder rate dropped 42 per cent the following year, but Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced a state of emergency in March due to another peak in violent criminality.

Trinidad and Tobago is an extremely dangerous place, and what has transpired here is so sad – let’s hope the people responsible are brought to justice.