With the installation of DNA testing equipment at the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL), relatives of the miners who were gruesomely murdered at Lindo Creek in 2008 may be one step closer to getting death certificates for the men.
The families had recently expressed concern that they were still not in possession of the respective certificates almost 11 years after Cecil Arokium, Dax Arokium, Horace Drakes, Bonny Harry, Lancelot Lee, Compton Speirs, Nigel Torres and Clifton Wong were killed.
Speaking to the media recently, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said with the procurement of the equipment, the relevant authorities will now be in a better position to issue the death certificate. He, however, could not say definitively if the death certificates will be issued. “I really can’t say but certainly we are in a better position to do so,” he said, before emphasising that in the near future the laboratory may be in a position to help the frustrated relatives.
