President Irfaan Ali, this morning, attended the viewing ceremony of teens Isaiah and Joel Henry to pay his final respects to the cousins who lost their lives in a brutal murder still under investigation.
The ceremony took place at the Sandy’s Funeral Home, Georgetown. In his interaction with the family and friends present, the President called on all of Guyana to reflect on the importance of love, peace, and unity as the boys were laid to rest.
“Today, we should respect the family, have the family in our thoughts and prayers; to support them spiritually and mentally and to use the day for prayer and reflection for these two young men. We should use the day to understand how important, love, peace and unity is for our country,” President Ali said.
He also urged that while justice must be sought for these young men that it be done in a peaceful and swift manner. He said, emphatically, that such a heinous act must never reoccur in Guyana.
“What we can pray for ultimately is for justice for these two young men, for peace and unity and to let their lives be a legacy for the future of Guyana,” he stated.
“These events must never occur again… in the memory of these two young men, all of Guyana should recommit to love, peace unity and to serve in God. Today I ask the rest of Guyana to reflect in a peaceful manner, to reflect in prayer and to hold up the families in prayer. I urge all of Guyana to reflect calmly today.”
Autopsies of the bodies of the Henry cousins revealed that the teens were brutally tortured before they died. Their mutilated bodies were found last Sunday aback the Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice.
