‘Do more work’

– RSS tells Guyanese sleuths probing Henry boys killing

The CARICOM Regional Security System (RSS) team which visited Guyana from September 28 to October 5, 2020 to assist in the investigation of the murders of West Coast Berbice cousins Isaiah (16) and Joel (18) Henry, and Haresh Singh (17), has called on the Guyana Police Force to do additional work in its probe of the murders.

“I have not seen a copy [of the report] but I have been briefed on the content of it and from what I have been told the RSS [team] did some work and recommended some additional be done…,” President Irfaan Ali told reporters on Monday on the side-lines of the swearing-in ceremony of Regional Chair and Vice-Chairpersons at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.

Further, the President said that the RSS team indicated in its report that they were satisfied with the work of the Guyana Police Force.
“As part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the RSS report should be submitted to the Guyana Police Force. They were satisfied with the work that the local police have been doing,” Ali said.

In September, the Henry cousins were found brutally murdered in the Cotton Tree backlands, West Coast Berbice. The duo had left their homes to pick coconuts. Days after, Singh was found dead in the Number Two Village backdam. He had left home on an errand to transport water. His motorcycle was also torched.

The President had sought assistance from the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), which is specifically designed to administer a collective response to the Crime and Security priorities of CARCIOM Member States, to probe the gruesome murders after police came up empty-handed.