TCI Police make No Arrests in Double, Double Homicides

By Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

#TurksandCaicos, September 16, 2022 – There have been no arrests reported by the Royal TCI Police in the Five Cays area; two weeks after the country’s bloodiest weekend this year.  This reality is despite promises that they had a ‘list’ and would be ‘coming for’ the individuals responsible for an outrageous flare-up of violence on September 3 and 4 which claimed four lives.

Governor and co-chair of the National Security Council (NSC), His Excellency Nigel Dakin, in a press conference held after the murders, had promised the people of Five Cays that arrests would be made to reassure the country.

“Over the coming days, they will be making arrests against a list of individuals that we believe are responsible for this mayhem,” he said.

Police Commissioner Trevor Botting had added, “I know that the Five Cays community is fearful but I want to assure you that we are doing all we can to take these criminals off of the streets of the Turks and Caicos Islands.”

The press conference was held on Monday September 5, which was two days after the initial killings.  It’s not clear why there was such a large length of time between the crime occurring and the Police going in to make those arrests, but it has drawn fierce criticism.

And despite admitting that these attacks were targeted and they believed they knew who was carrying them out, Police have not been able to apprehend anyone responsible for the shootings.  In fact, another two men have been gunned down in the weeks since.

Two young men were killed on Saturday, September 3, and a young woman and an elderly man were shot in a Five Cays home on Sunday, September 4th in what Dakin confirmed was very likely retaliation for the death of the two men.  Five days (September 8) later, a 27-year old young man was killed execution-style in a parking lot a stone’s throw away from a primary school.

The same style murder marred Wednesday September 14, when residents called in a man with two shots to the head in a gruesome discovery on Millennium Highway, also in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.

No one has yet been held responsible for any of the six slayings.

No wanted posters have been issued and police have not commented on the reasoning behind the arrests failing to materialize.