Last Monday, a beautiful life ended tragically. Trudy De Haarte was more than the woman who walked in the Brickdam Police Station and ended her life with the stun gun she had used when rescuing countless dogs and other animals; she had a passion for this work.
De Haarte was a mother and also an inspector with Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA). Today, I am using this space to have this woman of substance remembered not as someone who ended her life at the country’s most popular police station, but as a woman, who loved and lived; a woman who cared for her fellow human beings and for voiceless animals.