Pangnirtung waits for GN, RCMP support on suicide, violence – Nunatsiaq.com
May 22, 2018
“Once we know what they can offer, we can look at what the community can do”
PANGNIRTUNG—“An urgency” is how Pangnirtung’s hamlet council describes its plea for help in its ongoing struggle with attempted suicide and alcohol-related violence, says hamlet councillor Markus Wilcke.
That’s why, within weeks of receiving a formal letter of invitation from the hamlet, Government of Nunavut and RCMP officials are flying in today for a special meeting of the hamlet council in the east Baffin community of about 1,500 people.
That meeting will take place at 7 p.m. today, at the hamlet complex.
“This is the response of the government to council,” Wilcke said, speaking with Nunatsiaq News on Monday evening at his home in Pangnirtung.
