Crime Stoppers Dominica holds community education session on gender-based violence

CSD panel discussion

Crime Stoppers Dominica (CSD) recently held a community education session for the East in the Kalinago Territory in collaboration with the Kalinago Council. The event forms part of CSD’s national gender based violence project which aims to empower communities to speak up on cases of abuse and gender based violence using Crime Stoppers Dominica’s easy, confidential and accessible reporting system.

The community education session sought to improve the public’s knowledge of Crime Stoppers Dominica and how it can be used as a confidential medium to report crime, increase awareness of the unacceptability of  gender based violence, voyeurism, sexual grooming, underage sex and rape and of the law regarding mandatory reporting.

The session was attended by members of the public from the Kalinago Territory and Castle Bruce as well as representatives of various community groups, government organizations, and schools in the area. The audience heard a presentation from Crime Stoppers Dominica and how it can be used as an effective means of reporting crime including cases of gender based violence anonymously. The Bureau of Gender Affairs made a presentation on types of gender based violence and how it affects victims, their families and the community. Social worker/Counselor and Executive Director of Lifeline Ministries, Mrs. Tina Alexander shared her knowledge on the Sexual Offences Act with focus on mandatory reporting, grooming, voyeurism, hush money, marital rape and referral pathways.

The session closed with a panel discussion that included the Parliamentary Representative for the Salybia constituency and Minister of the Environment, Rural Modernization and Kalinago Upliftment, Honourable Cozier Frederick, Mr. Austin Cyrille, Mrs. Anette Thomas-Sanford and Ms. Willa Cyrille. The panelists highlighted several aspects of gender based violence including limitations to reporting and explored new initiatives to encourage reporting of gender based violence issues.

The project, which is being sponsored by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) includes a promotion and advertising campaign utilizing social media (featuring Ma Buttacup of Jingle Jam Entertainment), radio, print media and billboards.

Section of the audience at the CSD community education session

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If you have information on any type of criminal activity:

  • Call toll free1-800-TIPS [8477] and give the operator the information or go online at crimestoppersdominica.org and click the “Submit Tip” button.  Do not give your name.   
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Remember Crime Stoppers Dominica is not the police.  The organisation is a non-profit entity that provides a confidential crime reporting service that allows a member of the public to report crime and remain anonymous.

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4 Comments

  1. 72nationsshallallbowuntoHIM
    February 28, 2020

    This Carnival, i saw a lot of gender based violence against men. Why do women think they are allowed to physically assault men, and men are supposed to just take it? I saw a video of a man in trinidad getting knocked out cold by a woman, and everyone was laughing watching her continue to punch him out. Eventually someone took her away. Here in Dominica, a lady, sorry i meant some woman (ladies dont act that way), wanted to cross the rope of one carnival band, and the band security told her no she cant, she hit the man 2 coffs and wanted to fight with him. He was professional about it and relaxed as people calmed him down. but clearly he was hurt, he was embarassed and he was angry. women, these days know what they doing. and many will get what they looking for if they dont learn to respect others and keep their hands to themselves. When i was growing up, only certain kinds of women would fight, or fight in public at least.

  2. magway ca
    February 27, 2020

    there is a policeman up there. the man have young kids and he always throwing talk for some underage girls in the territory. he was telling one the other day she looking ripe

    • 72nationsshallallbowuntoHIM
      February 28, 2020

      Pedophiles. Do policemen undergo any kind of physhological evaluations? Ive heard the conversations of many police, and a lot of them have serious issues.

  3. Maria Ortiz
    February 26, 2020

    The website has alot of broken links, who is maintaining this website, they should be fired.

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