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The new newly appointed United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, AbdulKadir Musse, is warning of a disturbing surge in violence against children in the region.
“Across the subregion, children are increasingly caught up in escalating violence, where fatal events that should be unimaginable are now occurring, ”Musse said, as the UNICEF Eastern Caribbean said it is “deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Shawnathon Chase, a Barbadian child who was a kind, vibrant and well-loved member of his school community, a young man full of dreams and aspirations for a future he has now been denied – at the point of a gun.
“Our hearts are heavy as we think of his family, thrown into profound grief. No family should suffer this pain,” he said, adding “we also recollect with incomprehension the recent murder of nine-year-old Chantel Crump in Antigua and Barbuda.
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