{"id":27472,"date":"2025-11-25T15:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=27472"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:41:16","slug":"comprehensive-cohesive-approach-needed-to-target-bullying-violence-among-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/comprehensive-cohesive-approach-needed-to-target-bullying-violence-among-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive, cohesive approach needed to target bullying, violence among children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><a>Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr. Vindhya Persaud, has strongly condemned acts of bullying and violence among children.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This follows the tragic death of a nine-year-old, who was reportedly assaulted by a teenage cousin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Dr. Persaud, the incident underscores an urgent need for parents, guardians, and communities to pay closer attention to emotional and behavioral changes in children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nakasia-Bullying-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister urged adults to intervene early, teach empathy, and create safe environments where children can speak openly about their struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dr.-Vindhya-1024x655.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dr.-Vindhya-1024x655.png 1024w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dr.-Vindhya-155x99.png 155w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dr.-Vindhya-scaled-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dr.-Vindhya-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dr.-Vindhya-1536x983.png 1536w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dr.-Vindhya-2048x1311.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr. Vindhya Persaud (File Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the Ministry\u2019s point of view, efforts continue to strengthen child protection programmes and reporting mechanisms, expand counselling and psychosocial support, and push national awareness campaigns in schools and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr. Vindhya Persaud, has strongly condemned acts of bullying and violence among children. This follows the tragic death of a nine-year-old, who was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,363,350,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news","category-one-guyana"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27474,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27472\/revisions\/27474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}