| Belizean Student Commits Suicide at UWI in Trinidad |
| Tue, April 26, 2005 |
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 A promising and highly-praised Belizean physics student at the
University of the West Indies in Trinidad is dead. 17-year-old Rishi Cummings
apparently committed suicide yesterday afternoon by jumping 150 feet to his
death.
News reports from Trinidad are that yesterday afternoon at 3:00, Cummings jumped
off the roof of a three-storey building at UWI's Saint Augustine Campus. Students
report seeing Cummings approach the roof of the building and then suddenly jump.
He received massive injury but did not die on the spot. He was rushed to a nearby
emergency room where he was pronounced dead after 4:00 pm.
Media reports out of Trinidad say that Cummings jumped after he failed to do
well on an exam. Here at 7NEWS we first met Cummings in February
of 2003 when the then St. John's College student was awarded for his achievement
on the CXC exams.
Rishi Cummings was born in Barbados but became a naturalized Belizean. He moved
here from Trinidad in 1990 along with his mother Madri Rhamdass. The family
settled in Belmopan where Rhamdass, an attorney by training, worked in the Attorney
General's Ministry. Rishi lived here until last year when he graduated from
SJC and moved to Trinidad to study on a scholarship. He was living on campus
and his mom also later moved back to Trinidad which is her native country. Rishi
Cummings, as we understand it, left no family members behind in Belize. Those
who knew him told 7NEWS that Rishi was very bright and generally
quiet and reserved.
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