A Mon Repos businessman committed suicide on Thursday after having an argument with his wife.
The Rahim Supermarket owner was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
According to information, Rahim Hussain had an argument with his wife earlier that morning and she left. He then went downstairs to their store and told his workers to leave while asking a friend to take his two children to her home.
A few minutes later, he called the friend and told her that he had drunk poison. She quickly called the police but when they arrived the building was locked up and the police had to break the iron grills to get into the house.
When this publication visited his family yesterday, relatives refused to talk about his death.
Later that night, a Better Hope East Coast Demerara man ingested poison in his car a few houses away from his home. He was also rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he died hours later.
On Tuesday, a 24-year-old mother of two ended her life in her apartment at Eccles East Bank Demerara. She was found hanging in her bedroom in her apartment building at the new Eccles Housing Scheme by her boyfriend whom she was living with.
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) on Wednes-day released a statement that more than seven people per hour kill themselves in the Americas; some 65,000 taking their own lives each year.
This is according to the report ‘Suicide mortality in the Americas’, which is based on data from 48 countries and territories in the Western Hemisphere. The statement by PAHO said the Americas has a lower average suicide rate, 7.3 per 100,000 inhabitants, than the global average of 11.4 per 100,000.
The countries in the region with the highest suicide rates (for 2005-2009) were: Guyana with 26.2 per 100,000 persons, Suriname (23.3), Uruguay (14.2), Chile (11.2), Trinidad and Tobago (10.7), the United States (10.1), Cuba (9.9) and Canada (9.7).
