Days after Guyana was revealed to be the country with the highest estimated suicide rate in the world, a call was made for more intensive prevention training yesterday as the nation marked World Suicide Day.
World Suicide Preven-tion Day was observed under the theme ‘Suicide Prevention is Everybody’s Business’ and representatives from various non-governmental and faith-based organisations turned out at a forum organised by the Caribbean Voice Incorporated to address the alarming trend in Guyana.
The forum came less than a week after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Guyana as the country with the highest estimated suicide for 2012.
“In order to fix our problem we need to accept that we have a problem,” Dawn Stewart, a Washington-based social activist, said at the event. Stewart opined that Guyana is severely lacking in suicide prevention services and she said that there is a need for more training as well as available psychologists,
