Affairs · Federal · 2026-01-02

No published federal homicide series against which 2026 can be measured

The Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force said in a release dated 2 January that it is investigating the death of Kaden Hanley, aged 18, in a stabbing during Last Lap celebrations in Basseterre. As of 4 January, no published year-end 2025 homicide total for the federation appears in the Newsful corpus, and no annual crime statistics publication from the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force or the Ministry of National Security appears in it. Without a published baseline, a year-on-year comparison of homicide figures cannot be made from the public record. A series of that kind would ordinarily appear in an RSCNPF annual report, in Ministry of National Security material, or in a Statistics Department release. Newsful is treating the absence of a published homicide series as a standing entry in its gap register rather than a single-issue item, because it bears on every future figure published on this beat. As of 4 January, no such publication for 2025 has been located.