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Jan 23, 2013 News
Exactly one week ago, the Alliance for Change (AFC) made a call for a national approach to be taken to address the frightening issue of suicide, but so far, the party remains disappointed that no one has accepted their invitation to tackle the issue. This is according to the party’s vice chairman Moses Nagamootoo.
Speaking with Kaieteur News yesterday, Nagamootoo expressed that he is surprised at this fact, given that suicide has become a very worrying trend.
He added that while the AFC does not want the issue to become a “political football”, the party was hoping to get a response from government officials.
He emphasised that not even religious bodies came forward to deal with the issue of people taking their own lives.
It was the many reported suicide cases for this year alone that had prompted the AFC to make the call for a national approach to be taken to address the issue.
During a press conference held last Wednesday at the Side Walk Café, party member Beverly Alert spoke briefly, yet firmly on the issue.
She noted that “at this rate, we are going to be left with a very old society, because a lot of our young people seem to be taking their own lives. Definitely the coping mechanism is not being taught; is not being instilled in our young people”.
The AFC, she said, does not want the issue to become a “political football dragged between the political parties”.
Alert made a call for the people of Guyana – religious leaders, civil society, and all, to join the AFC, and work together to address the issue of suicide.
Already for the year there a number of suicide cases, most of which were of persons from the Essequibo Coast.
Nandranie Narine, 49, formerly of Charity Housing Scheme recently died from the ingestion of a quantity of Gramoxone. Param Gamsundar, 43, formerly of Anna Regina and Hampton Court Village, died at the Suddie Public Hospital, after also ingesting a poisonous substance.
The most recent case to have hit the Essequibo Coast is the death of former ranger, Roy Jones.
Jones, formerly of Queenstown Village, died three days after ingesting a large quantity of Gramoxone.
Alert, during her address to media operatives, also mentioned the names of 16-year-old Safraz Sattaur and 15-year-old Natasha Nazamoodeen.
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