Silence is violence. Silence perpetuates violence and normalizes it. Like many, the news of Andrea Bharatt’s death in neighboring Trinidad shook me. His story is just one drop in an ocean of violence that always seems to be at high tide and unfortunately is something that is not uncommon even in our beloved Guyana.
I can remember the brutal deaths of Monica Reece, 19, in 1993, Kescia Branche in 2017 and last December, Caroline Kennedy and her two young children who met their death while sleeping in their home when an angry husband set his fire on fire. . I often ask myself how things get to the door of death without seeing any of the signs. Why must things have to get this cruel before we recognize that there is something wrong with the violence inflicted on women so that it can happen again and again?