A Princes Town couple who appear to have died by suicide over the weekend left a letter to their children – a nine-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son – apologising for leaving them without parents.

Shaline Ramkissoon, 38, and her common-law husband Steve "Ricky" Jugmohan, 40, died on Saturday.

Their daughter found the bodies in their La Paille Road home.

Ramkissoon’s grieving mother, Rena Ramkissoon, 61, later found the hand-written letter addressed to "my sweet kids."

"We are so sorry for what we have done but we are in too deep with little or no time. We really tried but we never got through. (Daughter’s name) please help take care of (son’s name)," the letter said.

"Ricky said the green-band maxi belongs to him and he is leaving it for (daughter and son). Everything that he was supposed to get here he is leaving it for (daughter and son). We love you both but our time ran out. Sorry babies."

The letter was signed by Ramkissoon and included Jugmohan’s name and identification card number. Ramkissoon’s relatives said it was her handwriting.

The girl found her parents dead shortly before noon on Saturday.

She told relatives that earlier, they hugged and kissed her then said their goodbyes. She then went to sleep not knowing it would be the last time they would speak to her.

"Mom and Dad came, hugged and kissed me. They said bye-bye, and I went back to lay on the bed," the girl told relatives.

She was up earlier to care for her pet dog but went back to sleep after hugging and kissing her parents.

When the girl woke up, her nightmare began. At first, she thought her mother was asleep on the ground near the bed. The child went to the bathroom and found her father’s body.

"I was calling her, and she was not waking up," the girl recalled on Monday. The girl alerted other relatives.

Ramkissoon, a Play Whe booth operator, and Jugmohan, lived on the ground floor of his family’s home with their two children.

Ramkissoon has two other children, 15 and 16, from a previous relationship. They live abroad with their father.

Jugmohan has a daughter from a previous relationship and she lives on the top floor of the house with his mother and other relatives.

Ramkissoon's daughter is now staying at the home of Ramkissoon’s parents in St John’s Village in San Fernando. However, the girl’s brother is with their father’s mother.

On Friday night, the child sat in the same room where the couple recorded a video on a cell phone about what they intended to do. The couple and children shared the same bedroom. The couple also expressed their love for their children.

The couple also said they had financial problems.

[caption id="attachment_945896" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Nandie Ramkisson holds up a picture of her sister Shaline Ramkissoon who, along with her husband, Steve Jugmohan, died by suicide at the family’s La Paille Road Princes Town home on Saturday. PHOTO BY LINCOLN HOLDER -[/caption]

Ramkissoon’s mother told Newsday that her granddaughter did not see when the couple took their l