no time: Kawli Jaggernath weeps outside the Forensic Science Centre, Federation Park, St James, yesterday as she recounts Sunday's suicide by her husband, Anand Rampersad.
-Photo: CURTIS CHASE
THE WIFE of a security officer who committed suicide on Sunday yesterday described him as a dedicated husband who did whatever it took to make his family happy.
Kawli Jaggernath witnessed her husband of 19 years shoot himself in the head and she believes that the stresses of his work drove him to that point.
On Sunday around 2 p.m., Rampersad, 48, a security officer with Thor Security Services and a former police officer, committed suicide while seated in the family car, outside his workplace at Players on the Avenue, Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook.
At the Forensic Science Centre in Federation Park, Long Circular, while awaiting her husband’s autopsy results along with other relatives, Jaggernath, 49, yesterday spoke of a man, who she said desired being with her, but was unable to do so for any lengthy period of time because of the demands of his job.
’We never had time for each other. We had time for nothing. Not even time to make love. He was always working. Sometimes when he was sleeping and we had to wake him up for work, he would not even be able to wake up. He was over-working and was always tired,’ Jaggernath said, adding that she too worked for the security company.
’On Sunday I kept calling him on his phone, but he did not answer. So I take the car and went down to where he was working to drop off some fruits for him.
’When I saw him, I asked him how he was not answering his phone. He told me: ’Darling, I throw it away you know.’ So I asked him why he threw away the phone, and he said let’s go around the corner and he will show me why.
’When we gone he said he did not want us to separate and then he tell me to come close. When I see him pull out the gun and put it to his head, all I could of screamed was ’Oh God no’,’ she said.
Jaggernath said, her husband never showed any signs of being suicidal.
’I never though he would have killed himself. He was a great man. I don’t think there is another man out there like him. It have no more man like that outside there,’ she said before she broke down in tears and had to be led back into the Centre by relatives.
Rampersad’s funeral service will take place tomorrow, where he lived at Cashew Gardens, Longdenville, Chaguanas.
My heart sunk and tears came to my eyes while reading this article. What a pity this man did not have someone to talk to about his problems.My heart aches for his wife who was with him when he took his life. I hope she will get some help asap as this can put her over the edge too.Hope she will be ok and may he Rest In Peace.
The man good in work and because she bring him fruits he trip off and shoot himself? I'm a bit smarter than to believe that. There is obviously more to the story.
I find it extremely hard to believe that someone who is trying to contact their spouse with no luck would take him fruits. She was obviously checking up on him and possibly accused him of something which was the last straw with all the possible stress in his life.
Women would go all out to cover
up their wrong doings. "He never
even had time to make love". What
stupid talk coming out from this
woman. A security office? give me
a break, what stress? Is he sitting
in an air traffic control tower in
chicago where thousands of lives on
the air depends on you and you are
required to be alert every second.
Look people, before reporting do some
investigation please.
What people fail to realise is that we as a people are more stressed out than ever. We have work stress, family stress and the stress of having to deal with long hours in traffic so how much time do we have in essence for ourselves and for our children, for our family when all we want is to make life a bit more enjoyable for ourselves and for those around us. We get no appreciation for things we do and no acknowledgements for the our efforts.In trying to make a better life for ourselves and our families we get lost in the timeconsuming efforts of overworking and still if employers can get more and take more to achieve their goals it does not matter who or what we are to them just as long as they achieve what they want to achieve without the thought of the human process involved. No wonder why this society is the way that it is.How many people out there remember and use the words "Thank You", "Please" , Well Done" Much appreciated" very little...How many people out there take the time to smile at a stranger or say have a wonderful day, God Bless You? Are we even showing our children these things are we taking the time to share these things with our children. We have changed so much as a society and mind you not for the better. We can only change when we change ourselves and remember that this life is short and we must appreciate every moment and not take for granted the time that passes us by so easily and so quickly. May God bless Mrs. Jaggernauth in this time and give her the strength to cope with her loss.
I understand her grief, but her love could have comforted him in whatever stress he was enduring, something is missing in this story.... does anyone agree???
Yes people having the work all kind a hours to feed thier family and our stupid government and opposition figthing among themselves like fools, ridiculous. Instead of looking to improve the life standard of average people who have to work hard to make ends meet!!!
i say arrest all of them and throw away the key. there must be some honest wanna be politicians out there, who have the experience, and integrity to move this country forward. I am one of them, who will join me.
Hell and we need to start planting our food!!!! And yes i have land to plant.
Nevertheless, citizens of trinidad and tobago, let us come together in a communities like brothers and sisters and meet each other at the point of each others' needs. When last did you honestly talk to your neighbour? All this formality and pride and who have a nice car - u think u can take that to the grave ? No!! It will stay right here. What is important? Being there for others when they need you. Ok it is no easy task, but you can give it a try. U never know you may save one family the grief of losing someone and breaking up a family and a home.
It is so sad to see all these people in protective positions literally self destructing. These people are entrusted to make the public's life better but no one takes care of their needs. The same applies to some doctors and pastors. These people give, give give , but there is nothing for them to lean on. The private and public protective services need to come together on this issues because there are a lot of officers and their families enduring mental suffering .
This suicide is a grave lesson for the Police Association and the Commissioner of Police. This police officer, who committed suicide, tells the Police Commissioner he got a major problem on his hand. There are overworked and stressful officers on the force. When officers are overworked and under so much of stress, performance degrades, especially when they do not get time to rest or get proper sleep. They will look for different ways of releasing that stress. Many will not be able to exercise good judgment on duty and will either use excessive force or kill innocent people or kill themselves. These officers are not to be blamed for their actions. Start a program now to counsel officers who believes they are under extreme stress, reduced the amount of work, and set up counseling sessions with therapists and doctors on a full time basis to help your officers. Officers are not machines; they are human beings just like you or me. They will breakdown when they are pushed beyond their limits. Get officers under so much stress to talk about their problems with their therapist.
Something does not sound right in the way the wife explains the story - there is more to it and dead man has no say. The authorities needs to dig further.
There must have been a signs of depression from husband people don't shoot their brains out in front of loved one's unless he wash clinically crazy! Someone is not telling the truth, I smell a rat here.
There has to be more to this story. Many of use have stress at work and we just deal with it, we don't blow our brains out. If this man was under stress from working too hard, all he had to do was cut back on his hours.
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