Ministries yet to acknowledge funding proposals for Argentine investigators to probe Berbice teen murders – GHRA

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has announced that it has reached out to the ministries of Home Affairs and Human Services to partner with it in financing a visit by a team of forensic pathologists from Argentina to assist the Guyana Police Force in resolving the recent murders of West Berbice youth Joel and Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh.

In a statement issued yesterday, the human rights body said a first round of letters requested the two ministries to share the cost, which is a sum in the region of US$40,000. It added that recently a second round proposed that the ministries fund 50% of the cost, with the other 50% to be  fund-raised publicly, co-ordinated by the GHRA and the law firm of the families, Hughes, Fields & Stoby.

However, it noted that to date its letters and phone calls await an acknowledgement.