Facing a major security crisis just over a month since taking office, President Irfaan Ali announced last evening that he is mobilizing help from the Regional Security System (RSS) of the Caribbean and the UK government to bolster the investigative capacity of the police force as they probe the murders of three teenagers in the village of Cotton Tree as well as the “criminality which led to the disruption of lives along the Region Five corridor.”
“We will seek to use all available tools in not only solving these crimes but also in getting a comprehensive and holistic picture as to all the events surrounding what took place thereafter,” Ali said in an address to the Nation.
Since Sunday, the West Coast Berbice has seen the blockading of roads, attacks on commuters and two murders following the discovery of the mutilated bodies of cousins Isaiah Henry and Joel Henry. Seven persons are in police custody over these two murders.
