AFC calls for a national approach to address suicide

Jan 19, 2013 News

The many suicides for this year alone have prompted the Alliance For Change (AFC) to make a call for national approach to be taken to address the issue.
During a press conference held last Wednesday at the Side Walk Café, member of the party Beverly Alert addressed 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 between the political parties”.
Alert added that her party is calling on the people of Guyana; religious leaders, civil society, and all, to join the AFC, and work together to address this worrying trend. We are just 18 days into the year and we have already had a number of suicide cases, most of which are from the Essequibo Coast area.
While Essequibo is now the leading county in suicide rates, it has always had the lowest reports in murders.
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, Tuesday morning, 13 days after ingesting a poisonous substance.
The most recent case to have hit the Essequibo Coast was the suicide of former ranger, of Queenstown Neighbourhood, Roy Jones.
Jones, formerly of Queenstown Village, died Sunday night, three days after ingesting a large quantity of Gramoxone.
Monica Jones, his wife, said that previous reports which suggested that she was at the time viewing an X -rated movie, which subsequently propelled her husband to ingest the poisonous substance, are untrue.
Mrs. Jones, who wanted to clear the air about what she described as a tasteless rumour, said that she had endured numerous years of both verbal and physical abuse from her now dead husband.
She said that on the day of the incident she was returning to her Queenstown residence from work when she noticed her husband staggering.
Mrs. Jones added that as she got closer to the front entrance of her house she also noticed what appeared to be slime emanating from her husband’s mouth. She then proceeded to inform her sister-in-law.
Mrs. Jones said that her eldest son, Ricardo Jones, was at home at the time when his father came home and ingested the poison.
Due to a prolonged domestic problem, Mrs. Jones said that her husband had vacated her residence a few days prior to his death. Two other members of Jones’s family died as a result of ingestion of a poisonous substance some time before.
Alert, during her address to media operatives, also identified the cases of 16-year-old Safraz Sattaur and 15-year-old Natasha Nazamoodeen.

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