The Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL) will receive a DNA analysis workflow system in the coming months and samples will no longer be sent overseas for testing.
“…….I want to announce….we have paid for a new machine and we will shortly, within a couple of months……be in a position to do our own DNA testing here in Guyana at the Guyana Forensic Laboratory and that we wouldn’t have the time and the wait to get DNA overseas and maybe we might have a way of burial for particular cases were bodies or remains are still in waiting,” Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn recently announced.
Benn made the disclosure while speaking at the Criminal Investigation Department’s annual Christmas luncheon and awards ceremony as he acknowledged that the police force has had “some” challenges in the area.
