This is sad, and it brings back dark memories from the kick-down-door days. They should water board the one in custody to give the names of the other two. Guyana should implement laws for rapist, where the victims can confront their assailants and push a stick up their anus and rupture their intestine. If they don't know how a woman feel when she is being raped, they would never learn.

Agree!

Thanks, but you will hate for saying this. You and some in your camp need the plunger treatment as well to get you guys focus. Say you agree? 

Rape – the sexual violence which faces us

Latchmin Punalall

By Latchmin Punalall
AFC Executive Member & Women For Change – Chairperson

Spanning the history of humanity, women have always united to fight for their rights and the chance of a better life. Socially, we elegantly fulfill the four-fold role of being mother, sister, daughter or wife. Professionally, we serve in almost any field, including the military.

Guyana has always been blessed with productive women who took great pride and joy to stand by our men as we executed these significant roles. Many things help us along, and many things also hinder us as we tread the path of womanhood. Rape has been one of the attacks which has always filled our hearts with fear, and in Guyana, this scourge seems to be on the steady rise.
We should not give our women and girls a false sense of security by minimizing and/or denying the frequency of sexual violence which now faces us. I recall sitting in the Parliamentary Social Services Committee during 2006-2011 and raising the issue of gang violence and other forms of rebellion rising in our school system. The matter was played down then and today we are forced to address a problem which could have been nipped in the bud.

Let us not make the same mistake when it comes to rising levels of sexual violence in our country. Every Guyanese woman should be free to have a quiet evening at home, to ride in a bus, to take an evening walk in the park, to enjoy the fresh air at our seawalls or seashore or to enjoy any other healthy, pleasurable activity. The thought of being preyed upon by a rapist robs us of our God-given right to enjoy peace and tranquility in our homeland. This is made even more painful when we think of the pressure, difficulties, and unhappiness which come with living in third world Guyana.

We all know that rape is more common than people think because there are so many cases which go unreported. Sometimes the perpetrators are wealthy and have no difficulty making a financial settlement. We must accept that rape represents a form of gender inequality. Most perpetrators are male and most victims are female. It is both a consequence and cause of gender inequality. It results in immediate and long lasting harm to victims.

Immediate consequences include physical injury, sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancies, and even suicide. Long term consequences include post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and panic attacks, depression, eating disorders and obesity. When a child is the victim it can also impact on educational attainment and school attendance.

For genuine solutions to be found to any problem, one has to work at the elimination of the causes of the problem. Studies done by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia) reveal that there are several risk factors which contribute to the perpetration of rape. There are firstly societal factors such as poverty, societal norms that support sexual violence, societal norms that support male superiority and sexual entitlement, weak laws and policies related to gender equality, and a high tolerance of crime and other forms of violence.

Once we remain a poverty-stricken nation, our women and girls will continue to be easy victims of rape as they open themselves to anyone offering help, as they walk the streets seeking whatever comes.

Secondly, there are community factors such as lack of institutional support from the police and judicial system, lack of organizations which can be rescue centers where counseling and other basic helps are provided.

The present administration should do much more to assist NGOs and Faith Based Organizations which work in improving the moral fabric as they deal with such issues as teenage pregnancy, suicide, drug abuse etc. Why should the current administration invest in luxury hotels when hotel occupancy rates are so low here and when we are so poor in providing for critical social services?

Thirdly, there are relationship factors such as association with sexually aggressive and delinquent peers, a family environment characterized by physical violence. Fourthly, there are individual risk factors such as alcohol and drug use, hyper masculinity, and coercive sexual fantasies.

In our Action Plan, Foundation 6 declares “…the AFC sees gender equality in the context of enhancing democracy, developing peaceful communities, eradicating poverty and violence against women…” This means that an AFC government would have zero tolerance when it comes to sexual violence or any other form of evil which robs our women and girls of a healthy, joyful and rewarding life.
Yes, we do have laws in our constitution to protect women against rape, but there must be a willingness on the part of people to comply as well as a determination on the part of the administration to enforce these laws.

The heading of this topic is proof that Bgurd_See is an arsehole.

In the AFC Action Plan, Foundation 6 declares “…the AFC sees gender equality in the context of enhancing democracy, developing peaceful communities, eradicating poverty and violence against women…” This means that an AFC government would have zero tolerance when it comes to sexual violence or any other form of evil which robs our women and girls of a healthy, joyful and rewarding life.

the AFC sees gender equality...

1) Then you must agree how you guys treated Mrs. Manickchand by calling her fat. 2) One of AFC members cuss out another woman and calling her fat.

Does Latchmin Punalall has any shame left?

How could you say I am a liar when Danyael called Minister Manickchand a fat pig among other names constantly? You bare face to ask for proof? 

This could be the first case for the NEW Crime Lab

First, if you are concerned with lies you ought to pay careful attention to deryck drugabeer.

Secondly, I am not AFC. They do not inform my opinion nor I theirs. I am not a member of their organization and I am sure they would not want me since I am not material for organized an political party.

Thirdly, I call the manic one an extra rotie eater and a do nothing Miss Piggie because she is a tragoicomic figure and an epitome of the descent of the  PPP. Like them she was full of potential, beautiful and now she is what she is...do nothing, see nothing, know nothing Miss Piggie. I bet she is obsessive about an extra rotie as the real Miss Piggie is about Kermit.

Again do not link me with the AFC. Link me with my ideas. I represent me.

Shut your frigging mouth and don't make excuses for abusing Mrs manickchand. You have no respect for women. In you face, danyael! You represents shit.

Bhai, Leave dat barefoot Buckman alone!!!

What a bunch of crock, they wouldn't want you in their party because you are not a Guyanese citizen, a white pretending to be Amerindian as evidenced by your "sakiwinki is a bird" and "epicopalian church" in Guyana blunders.

You claim not be be controlled by the AFC but you buy whatever they are selling , hook line and sinker.

Your attacks against Manickchand reeks of sexism.

How about the AFC and APNU screwing like dogs in the street and they come here and claim they never had sex. These people are outright bastards! 

Mr PJ do not assume prerogatives you do not possess. I can say whatever I want as long as it is the truth. What respect do you have for woman? Get real punk

I do not know that barefoot was a curse. I bet you did not see shoes until your teens. Now since you attempt to insult a group on account of me, look to the 400 million dalits in India still not remotely contemplating shoes as a necessity since they have more pressing problems. You and one quarter of my legacy is of them.  For 6000 years they were in that state until Guyana rescued them

If you are referring to Amerindians, most of them have Shoes and more. Amerindian you are not, Buckman YES.

I do not know that barefoot was a curse.

God said people who walk bare feet are mud heads and illiterate, and you happen to support him openly. So, what's that make you? I not against bare feet walkers, but when you add fuel to fire without thinking, it comes back to burn you. You claim to be yourself, speak for yourself, and yet you want to be your brother's keeper. Nice try, Danyael!

 As noted, yuu always presume to know more that you do and it shows. As I noted, you are a johnny come lately to Christianity and the only thing you should know of it is that cardinal sins are just gateways to every other. ie a  "lying tongue and a "A heart that devises wicked plots"

"Isms" speak to an ideology of class. I do not see Miss Chubby Wubby as representative of a group ie  "women" even though she is a woman. Did she not flush Varshnie with a casual phrase? How about our trafficked kids...she saw none!

She is a do nothing, know nothing, see nothing, pudding plump bench warming nepotistic PPPite. These  are all easy descriptors for her.

 Man are you trolling for salvation...you a crass racist! I know who god is and you are not fit to walk in his shoes. If he call you folks here mud heads it does not mean he is speaking to an ethnic identity. But why am I even discussing the matter with you? That is like telling a pig that mud is bad for it.

As noted, yuu always presume to know

Just like you assumed that I am PJ?

Did some one say dumber and dumber...It would be a great thing to see you try to extricate a pejorative for a people from the muck in your mind about them.

Some men hate women because their Ladies leave them and take older men.

 and jay pooran.

Or you mean a younger man? 

Now, who the hell is jay pooran? I am lost...not going to entertain this further. 

It Is about YOu STUPID BUCKMAN.

Could be also.

What about men who leave their wife and openly brag about their sweet women? But you are to much a mud head to understand the depth of your prattling. In any event, you are speaking of your world.

And you are so bright Papi! Not!!!

Who Dat???

There are Doctors, Lawyers and Scientist who are STUPID. But I don't expect you to understand.

No denying the statement but you would not be equipped intellectually to know the difference.

But a DUMB ASS like you would???

As I said, you would not know the difference. Compared to me you are not even a remote last. You would not matter to be countable. 

You're a fool to discredit anyone in that manner. 

Bhai, Dat DUMB FOOL live in a World of his own.

Danyael don't have his partners to defend him today.