A 51-YEAR-OLD man was found unresponsive at his home on the afternoon of August 19, amid growing financial and emotional strain after he became unemployed last month.

Father of three, Richard Cooper, of San Fernando, had been struggling to support his family after being laid off from the National Reforestation and Watershed Rehabilitation Programme, where both he and his now widow, 45, had worked for the past five years under the Rural Development Company.

In July, contractors issued notices of termination, leaving workers unemployed.