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Domestic violence murders too alarming – WIN
…calls on govt. to implement stronger systems to protect vulnerable
(Kaieteur News) – The We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) Party on Friday bemoaned the country’s spate of domestic violence noting that the numbers are alarming and warrant stronger preventative measures aimed at protecting the vulnerable.
WIN’s Member of Parliament (MP) Dr. Andre Lewis during his party’s press conference said that statistics provided by the Crime Chief indicate that domestic violence murder doubled in 2025 with an increase of 13 in 2024 to 26 in 2025.
WIN’s Member of Parliament (MP), Dr. Andre Lewis
“In just two months of 2026 several more domestic related killings have already been reported. This shows that violence is not decreasing but there is shift towards more violence in the home,” he said.
Dr. Lewis said while the country’s laws address the matter there seems to be a challenge relative to its implementation.
“And we understand the cultural context of why it is difficult for implementing the laws. In many cases there are signs, there are prior threats or repeated abuse yet there is no clear explanation of what we have been doing after we have all this data on domestic violence, what we intend to use it for or what system we plan to put in place to counter some of what we are seeing in society,” he related.
The WIN MP noted too that there are several unreported cases due to fear of further abuse.
“…and for many people they stay in those situations because they are afraid, because they are financially dependent, because they are intimidated,” he added.
Dr. Lewis suggested that the government needs to employ systems that monitors reports. “We can’t just issue an order, (and) take a report but we have to make sure that we are taking notes of when the protection orders are not followed so that we have that information in place,” he said.
He also suggested that, “We need to make sure that we are putting better system to protect the vulnerable in the situation. There should always be a quarterly publicly reporting on domestic violence data. Not revealing the names and all of that but let us understand what is happening in regard to reinforcement and what is not working so that we can go back to the drawing board and revisit and make changes as we go on.”
The WIN MP said that the new domestic violence and sexual offences unit must be properly resourced across the country and monitoring must be heightened to ensure there are fewer breaches of protection orders.
“But we indeed need to do is move from a system from where we react, to a system where we are more proactive in acknowledging that these are the issues that exist and this is how we should move forward with them in a sense of accountability but also consider that it is a sense of urgency because the numbers are quite alarming as I say,” Dr. Lewis said.
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