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Barbados endured the deaths of three women – including a Guyanese – in four months allegedly at the hands of spouses, and the ladies came out in force for a rally against the scourge of domestic violence.This demonstration of vigilance last week can be seen as a pro-active move aimed at ensuring that Government’s planned amendments to legislation on domestic violence do not disappear onto some shelf in the legal affairs department.It is also intended to ensure that the Bill gets smooth sailing when it goes to parliament.As reported by Kaieteur News, Guyanese Brenda Belle was chopped to death in May. Police believe that her demise came at the hands of her jealous ex-husband. Barbadian Denise Clarke was murdered in July. She was found dead in a pool of blood in the waiting area of a St Michael retirement home, where she worked.Another Bajan woman Fish vendor,Kiko Alonso Dolphins Jersey, Caroline Ford, was knifed to death in the presence of co-workers at the Bridgetown Fish Complex, allegedly by her paramour in August.The spouses of all three women are in jail awaiting trial.Relatives and friends of Belle and Forde contend that if police had acted when complaints were made about assaults on them by the suspects, prior to the fatal incidents, they would have been alive today.But,Mark Duper Dolphins Jersey, as is the case in Guyana and many English-speaking Caribbean countries, police say their hands are tied by the law. For a number of reasons – including economic ones – many women refuse to offer further evidence against their male companion-abusers, making officers of the law less inclined to vigorously pursue reports of domestic violence.Responding to this social feeling of discontent, Barbados Attorney General, Adriel Braithwaite,Byron Maxwell Dolphins Jersey, announced last month that Government is taking a Bill to Parliament to amend the Domestic Violence (Protection) Act to empower police to go ahead with prosecution even when the female partner refuses to testify against the abusive spouse.At last week’s rally,Michael Thomas Dolphins Jersey, President of the 18-member strong umbrella women’s group,Melvin Ingram Chargers Jersey, National Organisation of Women, Marilyn Rice-Bowen,Dallas Thomas Dolphins Jersey, urged Barbadians to express their views on it to their members of parliament. “They have to speak for you, so you need to start engaging them on the subject of domestic violence,” she said.She called for women throughout the island to apply full social pressure in the cause of this bill to make punishment of abusers legally easier.   “I’m asking women – you sit on PTAs, you sit on church groups,Philip Rivers Chargers Jersey, I know you get very busy about fish-fries and cake sales and all that – put those things on the back burner and talk about domestic violence… You are women in your churches,Isaiah Pead Dolphins Jersey, you are women in your PTA organisation, you are women in all types of organisations. Your women are suffering,” she said.She called on the many men in the crowd to join the battle against domestic violence, “Men you need to talk to your men … when they tell you in the bars that they abuse women, stop and tell them that it is wrong. Fathers talk to the boys. We women will talk to our boys, but you are to join us on this crusade. We will empower our women, but we can’t do it alone. We need you to tell the men when they are wrong “.This agitation in Barbados may be a useful example for the women of Guyana,Derek Watt Chargers Jersey, where spousal abuse, many resulting in death, far exceeds that on the Caribbean island.