Specialists from the sister Caricom nation are still conducting a series of tests on the remains of the eight murdered miners, but no results have yet been made available to the Guyanese authorities.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene, speaking at a recent gathering at Eve Leary, Georgetown, admitted this to the media, and acknowledged that the Jamaicans have a number of issues that they themselves are presently engaged in that might have delayed the submission of the results.

“We are waiting on the Jamaicans; they offered to help us; we know they have their own issues. They have a large number of cases over there, including murders, and I guess it takes time to do the DNA”

“They have to take from the material they have over there…the condition of the bodies, it would not be easy, so we have to be patient”, the Police Commissioner stated.

Questioned about the possibility of seeking another avenue, Greene expressed confidence that they will receive responses from the Jamaicans.

Meanwhile, speaking to media operatives following the opening of the conference of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police last Monday here in Guyana, Deputy Commissioner of the Jamaica Police Force, Charles Scarlett, was unable to give a time-frame as to when the testing would be completed.

He noted however, that the JPF has embarked on the process of reform and that the process of DNA testing is in for special treatment.

Last July 18, six specialists arrived here and visited the scene of the crime, where a number of samples were taken.

Although no charges have ever been laid against anyone for the murders, it was established that members of Rondell Rawlins alias ‘Fine Man’ gang were involved in the killings.

The discovery of the burnt bodies was made early in the morning by the camp’s owner, Dean Arokium, who had later revealed that the bodies had been wrapped in a tarpaulin.

Those suspected to have been killed are: Arokium’s son, Dax, 29; his brother, Cedric called ‘Brother’, 51; Clifton Wong known as ‘Berry’, 46; Lancelot Lee, nicknamed ‘Piggy’, 42; Compton Spires, called ‘Tona’, 58; Horace Drakes or ‘Pona’, 40; Bonny Harry, 48; and Nigel Torres, 17.