THE trials of several persons charged in the July 17 firebombing of the Health Ministry complex on Brickdam, Georgetown are to start soon, Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

At his weekly post-Cabinet media briefing, he said two key suspects who vanished from secure cells in the Providence police station, were still at large and Police Commissioner Henry Greene is to provide additional information on linkages in the case.

Luncheon said the Commissioner has admitted that police have so far failed to track the two key suspects who disappeared and are believed to have fled the country.

After the arson, President Bharrat Jagdeo had announced a $25M reward for information that could help investigators find those behind the firebombing.

Luncheon has also said that the organization behind the arson has been identified and the hunt is on to fully expose the perpetrators.

He said the two missing suspects “contributed much information on the intellectual authors” of the pre-dawn firebomb attack on the ministry.

“Every single step has been disclosed and the individuals have confessed and provided utmost information on their engagements in destroying the Ministry of Health head office”, Luncheon said recently.

A female Police Corporal in charge at the police station when the two suspects disappeared has been charged with aiding their escape.

President Jagdeo has said that overseas connections have emerged in the widening probe into the firebombing and investigators were following leads to people connected to a house in Meadowbrook, Georgetown.

Health Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, at a press conference after the fire, said the blaze started on the upper floor of the main building in the complex.

The complex that was gutted by the blaze that started around 3 am, housed the offices of Ramsammy and senior ministry officers and four other annexes.

Three other buildings in the compound were slightly damaged, including one in the southeastern corner of the compound in which an incendiary device was placed.