Police defend reward offer in West Berbice murders

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday said that its $3M reward offer for information that may lead to the murderers of teenaged cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry and Haresh Singh is not an admission of the force’s failure in solving the crimes but rather a “further effort”.

The police made the statement in response to attorney Nigel Hughes, who during a virtual press conference on Tuesday had said that the police offer is an admission of failure in solving the crime.

Hughes is representing the families of the Henry boys. The families have since said that the money would be better spent paying for the services of an Argentine forensic team that has offered to aid the probe.