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Trinidad and Tobago is now ranked third in the Americas.. for suicide... says the TTPS Victim and Witness Support Unit.
And they're reminding the public.. that help is available.
They're spreading their message through Carnival. The initiative: "Address Victims Everywhere" (AVA)... as Rynessa Cutting reports.

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00:00Suicidal ideation appears to be a growing trend in Trinidad and Tobago, with TNT now
00:07ranked as one of the most suicidal countries in the region.
00:11Trinidad and Tobago is ranked third according to the World Health Organization and PAHO in
00:18terms of suicide rates in the Americas. Third. So all these persons you see here this afternoon
00:26at flavor, walking and having a good time, that's smiling, that does not necessarily correlate
00:31in happiness. There are certain things that prevent health from happening, as we know. One
00:36being stigma, in terms of a lot of men still think that it is weak to seek assistance. We
00:42also found that persons are functioning from a place of high dependency depression. So it
00:48looks like somebody who is working and functioning, however, behind the mask we find that they are
00:53crumbling and falling apart. Unhealthy coping mechanisms, particularly
00:57among men, have also been noted. There's an other situation happening as well
01:02that we have found in the unit where pornography and marijuana use is actually robbing the island
01:09of productive citizens. So persons between the ages of, let's say, 18 and 35 years old are
01:17increasing in terms of their isolation. How does that look? That looks like a series of
01:21males who are having issues in terms of interpersonal relationships and also isolation. So we, this
01:29afternoon here, trying to let persons be aware that through face-to-face conversation that there's
01:35support there. The victim and witness support unit of the TTBS took its EVA initiative to the
01:41Flavor Village at the Queen's Park Savannah on Friday, providing education, outreach and support
01:48services to members of the public. This is our fifth intervention across the lifespan. However, we have
01:54found that persons interact, they call, our uptake in terms of victim intake usually increases after
02:02these interventions. So normally for a year we service like 3,500 new victims. That's new victims.
02:09After these interventions, after radio interviews, after interventions that tell the public what is
02:15happening, persons usually reach out for help. Interested persons can contact the unit at 612-0301
02:25extension 13-550. Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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