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For­mer Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to take im­me­di­ate ac­tion to pro­tect beach­go­ers fol­low­ing the trag­ic death of teenag­er Gabriel Nel­son, whose body was re­cov­ered two days af­ter he went miss­ing while bathing in Ma­yaro.

Speak­ing yes­ter­day, Paray con­demned “end­less talk about com­mit­tees and stud­ies” and sym­bol­ic ges­tures like flag-rais­ing on week­ends, call­ing in­stead for re­al pol­i­cy, prop­er fund­ing, and a clear im­ple­men­ta­tion plan. He sug­gest­ed start­ing with one or two safe bathing zones this year and ex­pand­ing the pro­gramme over time, stress­ing the im­por­tance of train­ing life­guards, eval­u­at­ing per­for­mance, and build­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence.

Paray ex­tend­ed his con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends, class­mates, and teach­ers mourn­ing Nel­son. “No par­ent should ever have to live through that kind of grief,” he said. “What makes it hard­er is that this was not some rare tragedy. It is part of a pat­tern we have al­lowed to con­tin­ue for far too long.”