DEPUTY Commissioner of Police, Law Enforcement, Seelall Persaud, yesterday said that the findings relative to the Lindo Creek massacre will be revealed to the public shortly, following completion of advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack.

Last week, the remains of the eight miners who were killed at Lindo Creek in 2008 were buried after a funeral service at Lyken Funeral Parlour.
Deputy Commissioner Persaud said the police have since received from their Jamaican counterparts the final report as it relates to the identification of the remains, and there was no need for the remains to be stored any longer.
He added that three of the eight remains were identified and the relatives were informed, but the relatives of only one of the dead men showed up for the funeral service at Lyken.
Persaud said the government paid for the funeral of the remains of the miners and also for the storage of the remains prior to the burial.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), in a press release on January 3, 2012, said that following a report about the deaths of Cecil Arokium and seven other miners, which occurred between June 12 and 24, 2008 at Arokium Mining Camp at Lindo Creek, Upper Berbice River, the Guyana Police Force (GPF), honouring its obligation, commenced an investigation.
The MoHA said evidence found at the crime scene suggests that persons in the camp were burnt to the extent that none of them was identifiable. Suspected human remains, inclusive of feet, bones and skulls among other body parts, were recovered at Lindo Creek.
Assistance in processing the crime scene was provided by members of the Special Anti-Crime Unit of Trinidad and Tobago, and Major Investigation Task Force of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, the MHA said.
It said the investigators advised that the identification of the murdered victims could only have been done by way of DNA analyses, and as a result, samples of the human remains taken from the crime scene were transported by the Jamaican Team (which included a forensic pathologist) to the Jamaican Forensic Laboratory for analysis, while, the remainder was stored at Lyken’s Funeral Parlour in Georgetown.
The MOHA said the Jamaican Constabulary Force submitted a report of a partial analysis that was conducted, and promised to submit the full findings by the end of January 2012.
According to the MoHA, the remains at Lyken’s Funeral Parlour formed a vital part of the evidence collected, and although it is usual for the bodies of persons killed in murders to be disposed of after a post-mortem(by handing over their bodies to relatives), in the Lindo Creek case, which is exceptional, the victims were not identified, and therefore could not have been handed over to anyone nor disposed of by the state, due to emotional issues normally associated with their relatives.