JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Police call on public to help solve teen’s murder

by

Loyse Vincent
2088 days ago
20191021
Loved ones of Dwarika Moses, who was the first murder victim in Tobago for 2019, at a memorial held at his gravesite.

Loved ones of Dwarika Moses, who was the first murder victim in Tobago for 2019, at a memorial held at his gravesite.

Melissa Williams

To­ba­go Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s help in solv­ing the case re­gard­ing To­ba­go’s first mur­der vic­tim of 2019, 19-year-old Dwari­ka Moses of Les Coteaux.

On Jan­u­ary 16, Moses’ body was found, burnt be­yond recog­ni­tion, in the back seat of his car in Ma­son Hall, To­ba­go.

His ve­hi­cle was al­so torched.

There has been no ar­rest in con­nec­tion with the mur­der.

Giv­ing an up­date on the mat­ter, new­ly-ap­point­ed As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Ver­non Roberts told To­ba­go To­day, the in­ves­ti­ga­tion is on­go­ing.

“The po­lice cur­rent­ly have sev­er­al leads and they are do­ing the nec­es­sary in­ves­ti­ga­tions,” Roberts said.

ACP Roberts called on mem­bers of the pub­lic to come for­ward with any in­for­ma­tion they may have to as­sist the po­lice in solv­ing the crime. Mean­while, Moses’ fam­i­ly held a memo­r­i­al ser­vice for the mur­dered teen on Oc­to­ber 10.

Tears flowed freely as the group stood at Moses’ grave­side pray­ing for jus­tice and ask­ing God for help to ac­cept their loss.

Moth­er of the vic­tim, De­r­ic­ka Moses, told Guardian Me­dia the fam­i­ly had to be at Moses’ grave­side for his birth­day.

“To­day would have been his 20th birth­day and we are keep­ing a memo­r­i­al and birth­day cel­e­bra­tion,” she said.

She said she re­mains heart­bro­ken and dis­ap­point­ed as the po­lice are yet to ar­rest any­one for her son’s mur­der.

“We keep check­ing and check­ing and they haven’t found any­thing, so many oth­er things have hap­pened since then. Still, they can’t tell us any­thing. We are still try­ing to come to terms with what hap­pened,” she said.

On the night of the mur­der, fire of­fi­cers were called to Ma­son Hall Link Road where a ve­hi­cle was on fire. Af­ter the flames were ex­tin­guished, a body was found in the back seat of the ve­hi­cle.

Pathol­o­gist Dr Easlyn Mc­Don­ald-Bur­ris con­firmed that Moses died as a re­sult of gun­shot wounds to the head.


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored