Woman shot, body dumped in Chaguanas drain

An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

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@guardian.co.tt

Ten days af­ter the bod­ies of two His­pan­ic women were dis­cov­ered in a shal­low grave in Cunu­pia, an­oth­er woman has been found mur­dered—this time, her body dumped in a drain in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas.

The lat­est vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as 34-year-old Va­lene Vanes­sa Camp­bell of Col­lege Road, El Do­ra­do.

While the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing Camp­bell’s death re­main un­clear, ini­tial re­ports in­di­cate she was shot in the back.

Of­fi­cers act­ing on in­for­ma­tion went to Gibbs Trace Ex­ten­sion, En­ter­prise, around 7.45 pm on Fri­day and found the vic­tim ly­ing in a con­crete drain.

She was wear­ing a pair of grey jeans and a pur­ple T-shirt.

In a sep­a­rate mur­der in Mor­vant, the body of 20-year-old Tyrek Bar­row of Laven­tille Road Ex­ten­sion, was found around 3 am yes­ter­day.

Mean­while, an uniden­ti­fied man was killed dur­ing a shoot­ing at Thomas Trace, Matu­ra on Fri­day night, while a sec­ond man was shot in the foot.

Con­tact­ed on the mat­ter yes­ter­day, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (Op­er­a­tions) Ju­nior Ben­jamin sought to re­as­sure the pub­lic that po­lice are work­ing tire­less­ly to solve every mur­der case.

He re­vealed that, as of 10 am yes­ter­day, there were 99 few­er mur­ders com­pared to the same pe­ri­od last year—a de­cline he cred­it­ed to the ded­i­ca­tion of of­fi­cers and the qual­i­ty of in­tel­li­gence be­ing re­ceived.

As of yes­ter­day, sev­en mur­ders had been record­ed for the month of Ju­ly—com­pared to 13 dur­ing the same pe­ri­od in 2024, and eight in 2023.

While the num­bers show a de­crease, Ben­jamin stressed that this does not lessen the se­ri­ous­ness of the sit­u­a­tion.

He said, “We have seen an in­crease in shoot­ings and homi­cides, the strat­e­gy of the TTPS re­mains fo­cused on in­creas­ing po­lice vis­i­bil­i­ty, act­ing swift­ly on ef­fec­tive in­tel­li­gence, and com­plet­ing holis­tic in­ves­ti­ga­tions to en­sure we min­imise and in some cas­es, dis­man­tle and dis­rupt the crim­i­nal el­e­ments.”