Police said they have solved 11 of the 21 murders recorded so far for 2012.
Superintendent Anthony Ferguson, officer in charge of crime management, said police are following significant leads in the remaining 10 murders and hope to resolve those shortly.
There were nine murders in January this year, compared to 12 last January, and there were 12 in February compared to the seven last February, Ferguson noted at a press conference at Police Headquarters on East Street.
He said five of the murders that took place already this year were drug-related and three were the result of conflicts that escalated.
Three of the 21 murders were retaliatory killings, according to Ferguson.
The Nassau Guardian previously reported that there were 22 murders in the country so far for 2012, but Ferguson explained that the February 7 death of a man on Marshall Road has not been classified as a murder.
The man was stabbed in an altercation with another man who also received stab wounds, according to police.
Police also revealed that up to yesterday they had removed 128 firearms and 3,359 rounds of ammunition off the streets for the year.
At the press conference yesterday, Ferguson also said a report in The Tribune that escaped prisoner Frederick Green, also known as Frederick Neely, was captured, was inaccurate.
Green, who was a remanded inmate, escaped from the Princess Margaret Hospital chest ward through a window around 4:10 a.m. on February 21.
"I can tell you that the escaped prisoner is still at large," he told reporters.
"Somebody was arrested, but it was not the escaped prisoner. Somebody might have thought that he was the escaped prisoner, but upon investigation it was discovered that he was not."
Ferguson said the man was released after the investigation.

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