Lindo Creek COI ‘postponed until further notice’

Feb 21, 2018 News

After dates were set for its commencement, the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the 2008 Lindo Creek killings has been postponed indefinitely.
An advertisement in yesterday’s Kaieteur News advised that “all public hearings into the COI into the circumstances surrounding the killing of Nigel Torres, Bunny Harry, Clifton Wong, Dax Arokium, Cedric Arokium, Compton Speirs, Horace Drakes and Lancelot Lee on or about the 21st June, 2008, have been postponed until further notice.”
The advertisement, issued by Secretary/Legal Counsel Keshia A. Chase, also stated that the Commission will be accepting original and follow-up statements from interested persons during the life of the Commission and will be setting subsequent hearings, to facilitate the attendance of witnesses.
“All persons wishing to testify and give information are asked to submit statements of their intended testimony, letters and memoranda to the Commission prior to their appearing before the Commission.
“Where necessary, persons will be assisted by the Commission’s Secretariat and are invited to contact the Secretariat at the email address and/or telephone number lindo@dps.gov.gy or 22-72292.
No reason has been given for the indefinite postponement.
The Lindo Creek COI was scheduled to commence last week Thursday at the Ministry of the Presidency in Waterloo Street.
But COI Chairman Justice Donald Trotman announced that the hearings had been adjourned, since certain ‘prerequisite arrangements’ for the functioning of the Commission were not in place.
Justice Trotman had declined to say what the prerequisite arrangements were.
The COI Chairman has also said that some relatives of the slain miners, who were to have testified, had not turned up.
The Lindo Creek COI was scheduled to be the first of several that Government has ordered into the 2002 to 2009 crime wave killings and disappearances.

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