In recognition that the number of women prone to acts of violence have been mounting over the years,NHL Jerseys Authentic, the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) is working towards putting corrective measures in place which is likely to see men taking a leading role in helping to curb the daunting practice.In fact, according to GRPA nurse, Sheila Yaw-Fraser,Wholesale Jerseys China, GRPA’s plans will be introduced through a Gender-Equity workshop which will be hosted today at the Regency Suite,Nike Shox Gravity 2018, Hadfield Street, Georgetown.Today’s forum,Wholesale Stitched NFL Jerseys, according to Yaw-Fraser, will specifically target men from various cross-sections of the country, including those that are employed in both the private and public sectors as well as members of civil society.Among the expected participants are members of the media and joint services, disk-jockeys, and other operatives of societies who have the potential capacity to foster change in their work environment.Yaw-Fraser said that it is anticipated that the men will be able to gain a better understanding of gender-based violence which more often than not is characteristic of females being victims of violence due to unequal power relationships with men.However, she advised that the primary objective of the forum is to create a cadre of men who can derive ways and implement programmes all geared at advocating for the reduction of violence against women.According to her, the intent is in no way to create an association to address the issue but rather to simply have men at strategic points (in their workplaces) disseminating messages of change.Additionally, Yaw-Fraser said that the GRPA initiative will be aptly aided by Help and Shelter, a body which has over the years been able to accumulate data on the reported incidences of violence in the local society.And according to information from Help and Shelter, in just over a decade more than 7,000 persons have been abused in one way or another of which 6,692 were females.Detailed statistics revealed that 5,736 persons were victims of spousal abuse, where 3,128 were physically abused, 1,461 were prone to non-physical or verbal abuse, 1,110 were subjected to alcohol/drug related abuse and 37 suffered abuse of a sexual nature.Statistics also revealed that child abuse,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, including trafficking of persons, non-spousal abuse, and rape amounted to more than 1,900 victims.It has also been deduced that most victims fall within the 21-30 years age group, an amount which surpassed 2,300 this year.Notable though was the fact that more than 3,000 victims are gainfully employed and the majority of those abused are of Afro-Guyanese descent.And since it has been deduced that most incidences of abuse are perpetrated by men, then men should understandably be the ones being targeted to create change,Wholesale China Jerseys, according to Nurse Yaw-Fraser.As such she said that today’s forum will see men being engaged in sessions of discussions with expert facilitators who will undoubtedly set the stage for needful change.

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Trinidad – A Guyanese mother of four, Sohanie Ramsundar, was found dead in her bedroom on Friday, with her throat slit, according to Trinidad newspapers.Hours later, the body of her husband, Arjoon Balkaran, also a Guyanese, was found floating in a nearby river. Police suspect he hanged himself from a tree on the river bank but the branch broke.Death house: Rocky Ramsundar (with basket of clothes) leaves the house where his mother Sohanie was killed yesterday at Teelucksingh Street East,Cheap NFL Jerseys, California.Ramsundar, 36,Wholesale Football Jerseys, was found by her 15-year-old son around 1 p.m.The killing happened at Teelucksingh Street East, Dow Village, California, not far from the scene of Thursday night’s murder of Nirmal Baldeo, who was found dead in the back seat of a vehicle, with his throat slit. The killings are likely not related, police said.Ramsundar and her children are Guyanese nationals.They came to Trinidad two years ago, and moved in with Balkaran, a 41-year-old labourer with a company on the Point Lisas Industrial Estate.The family lived in a house smaller than a freight container, and made of plywood.Ramsundar’s 15-year-old son, who works at a machine shop in the area, told relatives that he came home to find his mother lying dead at the side of the bed, with one hand clenched and lying across the chest.Neighbours said the couple would often be heard quarreling.A month ago,Nike Shox Gravity 2018, Balkaran set fire to the house during a fight, the Express was told.The house was rebuilt.Marilyn Jerard, who lives close by,Cheap NBA Jerseys China, said that on Thursday night she heard the two arguing “and we had to throw some big stone on the roof” so the couple would stop.The argument, police were told,NFL Jerseys China Cheap, was over money and the couple’s sexual relations.Jerard said, “Around nine this morning,China Jerseys Cheap, my daughter saw (Balkaran) heading to the cane field with blood on his clothes. She asked him for a cigarette and he said he had none on him. He say he had to go back home and change his clothes and when he return he would give her one.”olice said around 2.30 p.m. yesterday they found Balkaran’s body floating about half-mile from the house.Homicide officers and Couva police visited the scene.