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Gov’t remains focused on stamping out violence against women -Minister Manickchand - at International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women

Georgetown, GINA, November 25, 2011
Source - GINA

Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand addressing the gathering at Ministry at the launch of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women

Guyana joined with the rest of world today, in observance of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women with the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security hosting a special service at the Ministry, Water and Cornhill Sts.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand, while addressing the gathering said that nothing will stop government in its actions to denounce violence against women.

“In Guyana we have been trying as far as we can to ensure proactive measures are taken so that women can be treated as equal as men…to make sure women are seen as capable to better take care of themselves and children,” Minister Manickchand said.

Stepping up the fight

In this struggle, Minister Manickchand said Government has put in place the necessary safeguard, policies and programmes to protect and empower women, including National Domestic Violence oversight committee, and the White zone and Skeldon declaration, while providing technical assistance and referral services such as legal aid to survivors of domestic violence.

“We believe that only with empowerment we can fight issues like domestic violence and sexual violence and in that regard much have been done,” Minister Manickchand informed.

She said hundreds of women have been trained in various skill areas, which have allowed them to become marketable “so that they can earn and become people who can look after themselves and acquire a better standard of living”.

In addition to being trained, women are also afforded the opportunity to access small loans, under the revolutionary single parents’ micro credit scheme to establish or expand small businesses, Minister Manickchand said.

This programme was launched 2010 in collaboration with the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry.

Women can access loans ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 to establish and expand small businesses and this programme was also hailed by the Executive Secretary for the Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC) as one which the region should emulate.

A section of the gathering at the launch of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women

The programme, Minister Manickchand said, did not only afford single parents to provide a better life for their children but, changed their lives and improved their financial status.

“In addition to this, we also passed a comprehensive domestic violence act and a national publication on policies relating to domestic violence, and what we as citizens including health workers, police, teachers and nurses can do to help prevent and stop domestic violence in our society,” Minister Manickchand said.

Government, she said in addition to passing the Domestic violence legislation, also facilitated women the access to free legal services in Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10.

Minister Manickchand also expounded on other services being provided by the Ministry including the Women’s Affairs Bureau which has been providing counselling services to women and young girls on various issues, while empowering them through interactive sessions and outreach programmes on gender and other issues, for leadership and decision making.

“These are all concrete measures taken to address the issue of violence against women....women are not responsible for the violence that is being meted out to them, they are not to be blamed and nothing that they do should be seen as an invitation to have violence meted out to them,” Minister Manickchand said.

While all these services, she said were created and put in place by the Government and other stakeholders, it is women who have to take responsibility for their lives. In this regard, she urged women to take advantage of the many provisions that were put in place to protect and safeguard them from violence.

“There are many many different avenues where help can be given, and as a woman I am asking you to utilize those services so that you and your children can live a violence free life…no one else but you,” Minister Manickchand urged.

She also paid tribute to social workers and other service providers who work tirelessly without recognition to transform the lives of battered women and children.

The Ministry will be hosting 16 days of activities across the country as part of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women.

“ In the coming year we will be expanding the Women of Worth and single parents programme, we will be looking to help more women to join the workforce, we are going to expand the role of Women and Men’s Affairs Bureau so we can address gender equality issues that exist in our world,” Minister Manickchand informed.

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Originally posted by Nehru:
It is obvious that some of you are BLIND. Ms Manikchand and the Govt has been doing this for over 5 years consistently but I guess the quest for POWER does blind one.


Why are programs like these and suicide intervention are front page news, but the people on the ground, years later, are still waiting to see anyone from the ministries implementing them.
Tola
RED THREAD/HELP AND SHELTER BEEN DOING MORE FOR GUYANA RE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/SUICIDE INTERVENTION, THEN ALL OF THE MINISTRIES PUT TOGETHER.

Lack of political will stymies domestic violence fight - Red Thread
By Stabroek staff.
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Red Thread yesterday blamed the lack of political will to ensure enforcement of legal protections for creating a “culture” that excuses and ignores domestic violence.

“…[W]e are concerned about the apparent absence of political will at the top to ensure that the protections promised by the law are made real; the result is that the deplorable conduct of some prosecutors, policemen and women, magistrates, and social and medical workers is allowed to go unchecked, given the absence of the necessary regulations and protocols. There is nothing to hold them to a higher standard – neither morality nor the fear of being held accountable,” Red Thread said in a statement.

Yesterday was International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women.
The rights group added that in the election season, the concerns by contesting parties for women should have been demonstrated by a willingness to ensure that the abusers of women and children were weeded off the lists. “It is not too late to pledge that in future, the domestic and sexual abuse of women and children will be a disqualification from serving in any government of which you are part,” it said, while adding, “We are tired of the double standard!”

“Fifteen years after the Domestic Violence Act was passed into law, with few exceptions, Guyanese who are asked would say that domestic violence is a worsening problem in Guyana,” the group said in a statement yesterday, while noting that police recently reported a 21% increase for the year in domestic murders that included five children among the victims.

Red Thread said it was “concerned” that after countless hours of training, “some police officers still dismiss domestic violence reports as family business, and probably the women’s fault.” The group is also concerned some magistrates seem not to recognise the need to expeditiously hear applications under the Domestic Violence Act, and allow lawyers to apply for repeated extensions of time.

“We are concerned that the “culture” still excuses and ignores the abusive behaviours – particularly of men in high places,” it noted.
Tola
Red Tread is a racist and anti-PPP group parading as a 'women's interest' group.

Who formed this group? Wasn't it a WPA person dead set against the PPP instead of being dead set against the PNC (as Rodney would have liked).

Don't list to Red Tread... self-serving
FM
Men abusive to their wives and daughters.... and sons too.

The women and children will have no where to go.

Women also play a role in teking de abuse, especially those many 'mistresses' who accept this role as part of the culture and they then try to turn the husbands against the wives. Aren't women to be blamed also for their wutless behaviour?
FM
Notice how Hindus and Christians will critize our Muslim women folk for wearing the hijab, calling them 'covering up' and such names. What they don't know is that it is a conservative lifestyle, protection of themselves under God's command.

Learn babies, learn...
FM
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Originally posted by Apollo:
Red Tread is a racist and anti-PPP group parading as a 'women's interest' group.

Who formed this group? Wasn't it a WPA person dead set against the PPP instead of being dead set against the PNC (as Rodney would have liked).

Don't list to Red Tread... self-serving


Please tell me Apollo, if Red Thread is anti-PPP what are they doing training PPP women groups on the Essequibo coast and in Berbice,with resources provided by an overseas NGO ?
Ramsammy would rather import people from Dalhousie and Richmond BC,at great cost, with no Guyanese cultural background,to provide training in Domestic Violence and Suicide Intervention, than use long time experienced agencies like Red Thread or Help and Shelter..
His biased and racist politics have caused many women and youth to die, un-necessarily.

I DO NOT support the Jagdeo/Ramotar PPP, but we still support PPP members, whom we see as people in need.
This is the root problem with the PPP that is destroying Guyana, they only support their own kind, while other Guyanese struggle to survive.
Tola
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Originally posted by Apollo:
Men abusive to their wives and daughters.... and sons too.

The women and children will have no where to go.

Women also play a role in teking de abuse, especially those many 'mistresses' who accept this role as part of the culture and they then try to turn the husbands against the wives. Aren't women to be blamed also for their wutless behaviour?


Who gave you the right to blame others ?
Tola
quote:
Originally posted by Apollo:
Men abusive to their wives and daughters.... and sons too.

The women and children will have no where to go.

Women also play a role in teking de abuse, especially those many 'mistresses' who accept this role as part of the culture and they then try to turn the husbands against the wives. Aren't women to be blamed also for their wutless behaviour?
This is such ignorant, uninformed crap it speaks to why there is such ignorance as the the sources and causes of abuse in the society.
FM
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Originally posted by Apollo:
Notice how Hindus and Christians will critize our Muslim women folk for wearing the hijab, calling them 'covering up' and such names. What they don't know is that it is a conservative lifestyle, protection of themselves under God's command.

Learn babies, learn...
The hijab is as useless as lipstick with regards to modesty or morality. It is a cultural opinion rather than an informed opinion.
FM
quote:
Originally posted by Apollo:

Women also play a role in teking de abuse, especially those many 'mistresses' who accept this role as part of the culture and they then try to turn the husbands against the wives. Aren't women to be blamed also for their wutless behaviour?


Seems like this is your personal frame of reference from your family.
Mitwah
Page 32 of the Classified Ads of the Guyana Chronicle of Saturday November 26, 2011 is advertising To Let: in PRADOVILLE, Ogle, well appointed 6 Bedroom MANSION, semi-furnished US $3000.(606,000 Guyana Dollars) per month. Wonder is who going away after Monday???!!!! (Pradoville is an exclusive Guyana Government Officials' enclave near the Ogle Municipal Airport)
FM
quote:
Originally posted by Lion King:
Page 32 of the Classified Ads of the Guyana Chronicle of Saturday November 26, 2011 is advertising To Let: in PRADOVILLE, Ogle, well appointed 6 Bedroom MANSION, semi-furnished US $3000.(606,000 Guyana Dollars) per month. Wonder is who going away after Monday???!!!! (Pradoville is an exclusive Guyana Government Officials' enclave near the Ogle Municipal Airport)


I will be buying that one...
FM
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Originally posted by Ramakant_p:
quote:
Originally posted by Lion King:
Page 32 of the Classified Ads of the Guyana Chronicle of Saturday November 26, 2011 is advertising To Let: in PRADOVILLE, Ogle, well appointed 6 Bedroom MANSION, semi-furnished US $3000.(606,000 Guyana Dollars) per month. Wonder is who going away after Monday???!!!! (Pradoville is an exclusive Guyana Government Officials' enclave near the Ogle Municipal Airport)


I will be buying that one...


You are living illegally in a basement in Canada on Welfare! First of all you can't travel, secondly, you have no money and thirdly the PPP will not share the cocaine money with you!
FM
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Originally posted by alena:
We need more young bright minds like her and Dr Anthony to develop Guyana.


Dr Anthony is a puppet and a soup drinker! He may be brilliant but he is not independent!
FM
quote:
Originally posted by Lion King:
quote:
Originally posted by Ramakant_p:
quote:
Originally posted by Lion King:
Page 32 of the Classified Ads of the Guyana Chronicle of Saturday November 26, 2011 is advertising To Let: in PRADOVILLE, Ogle, well appointed 6 Bedroom MANSION, semi-furnished US $3000.(606,000 Guyana Dollars) per month. Wonder is who going away after Monday???!!!! (Pradoville is an exclusive Guyana Government Officials' enclave near the Ogle Municipal Airport)


I will be buying that one...


You are living illegally in a basement in Canada on Welfare! First of all you can't travel, secondly, you have no money and thirdly the PPP will not share the cocaine money with you!


Kiss my grits!! You are really a strange person..
FM
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Originally posted by alena:
everyday I read the papers I see a new project that Dr Anthony completed. He is results driven and that is what we need.


This is what Dr Anthony's employers are all about! He lost all credibility when he went on Facebook and post racist stuff. DESPARATION!!!

Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan was one of the most complete criminals in Guyana’s history. He acquired vast properties, recruited serving police officers, ordered executions, imported and exported cocaine, laundered millions of dollars, possessed specialised intercept equipment and armed himself with a wide assortment of handguns and ammunition. All of this was possible only because of his special relationship with the Guyana Government. He enjoyed immunity from an indulgent administration and compliant law enforcement agencies. Even now, the administration has made no attempt to conduct official inquiries nor has the police force attempted to bring Khan and his well-known accomplices to justice.

His successful application to United States District Court Judge Dora L Irizarry to plead guilty to trafficking in 150 kilogrammes of cocaine, witness tampering and gun-running, is an anti-climax to a callous criminal career. He will go to jail for a few years but will leave many questions unanswered.
FM
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Originally posted by Lion King:
quote:
Originally posted by alena:
We need more young bright minds like her and Dr Anthony to develop Guyana.


Dr Anthony is a puppet and a soup drinker! He may be brilliant but he is not independent!
Intellect without fortitude is as useless as straw to a drowning man.
FM
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Originally posted by Tola:
quote:
Originally posted by Apollo:
Men abusive to their wives and daughters.... and sons too.

The women and children will have no where to go.

Women also play a role in teking de abuse, especially those many 'mistresses' who accept this role as part of the culture and they then try to turn the husbands against the wives. Aren't women to be blamed also for their wutless behaviour?


Who gave you the right to blame others ?


Looks like the cap fits? strongman
FM
quote:
Originally posted by Apollo:
quote:
Originally posted by Tola:
quote:
Originally posted by Apollo:
Men abusive to their wives and daughters.... and sons too.

The women and children will have no where to go.

Women also play a role in teking de abuse, especially those many 'mistresses' who accept this role as part of the culture and they then try to turn the husbands against the wives. Aren't women to be blamed also for their wutless behaviour?


Who gave you the right to blame others ?


Looks like the cap fits? strongman


You going to answer my above question regarding Red Thread, or you to duck shit like Ramotar ?
Tola
Appolo from your ranting you have to be a ignorant kathar,do you know who heads Red Thread and her past.This shows how you fools are quick to label people as racist and sadly many of you indians fall in this category.You are blind to the ills and wrongdoings of the PPP,there nothing in your eyes but to see the PPP still in power.Why don't shut TFU
FM
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Originally posted by gbana:
Appolo from your ranting you have to be a ignorant kathar,do you know who heads Red Thread and her past.This shows how you fools are quick to label people as racist and sadly many of you indians fall in this category.You are blind to the ills and wrongdoings of the PPP,there nothing in your eyes but to see the PPP still in power.Why don't shut TFU


Your rants showed that you also are a racist.

yes! We want to see the PPP in power rather than the PNC, a party of violence. WE rather see our sisters walk the streets unmolested.
With the PPP in power, we don't have to line up for food and oil.

We rather see the country developed and not bankrupted as burnham did to guyana between 1964 and 1992.
FM

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