THE Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for another suspect in last month’s firebombing of the Health Ministry complex on Brickdam, Georgetown.

Police said George Lashley, 60, is wanted for questioning in relation to the fire which gutted the complex on July 17.

Lashley is brown, stout, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and his address is Lot 187 Freeman Street, North East La Penitence, Georgetown.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact the police on the following telephone numbers or the nearest police station.

The numbers are 226-7065, 226-1389, 227-2138, 226-7476, 225-3052, 227-2610, 227-2603, 225-2317, 225-3064, 227-1270, 227-1611, 227-1149, 225-2700, 226-1326, 225-8196.

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

Yesterday’s development follows the recent announcement by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon that the organization behind the arson has been identified and the hunt is on to fully expose the perpetrators.

He told reporters police here have asked for international assistance to find two key suspects who vanished from the lockups at the Providence Police Station, East Bank Demerara following evidence that they have fled the country.

He said the two men “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.

“Using the information they have provided, another hunt is on to fully expose those who organised, and the organization that has been implicated, as the intellectual authors who have designed this activity”, he reported.

He said the planners inveigled young people and others into setting the buildings in the complex on fire and commended the Police Force for the breakthrough in the investigation.

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

President Jagdeo said 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.

He provided some details on the plot uncovered so far but declined to give names from a list of suspects he had saying, “…that’s not the end of it, because it goes up and it goes overseas – the connections; they are going to emerge as the investigations continue.”

At a press conference, he said some of those being investigated may be in the formal political system and others “may be associated with politics.”

The President said those who started the fire have confessed and through caution statements have painted the picture of the plot leading investigators to the persons who sold them gasoline, bottles and other material for the Molotov cocktails (channa bombs) used in the attack.

He also came out strongly against what he said was a “very clever” and studied strategy supported by some sections of the media to divert attention away from the arson probe.

Mr. Jagdeo said catching those responsible for the fire and condemning the arson as a reprehensible act have been shifted into the background and there was a new, clever campaign emerging that is supported by some members of the media.

This, he charged, is designed to focus attention away from “this reprehensible act” and the loss it represents for the country to “so-called human rights issues”.

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 3am, 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.