– Jagdeo calls for end to speculationsPresident Bharrat Jagdeo has confirmed that his government has requested assistance from the United States of America to conduct a forensic examination of the site where eight miners were found dead.To this end he is urging that the media and the public as a whole refrain from speculation and to await the outcome of the investigations.Theories are flying left, right and centre about who may have been responsible for the killings with newspaper reports quoting a source saying that the spent shells found at the scene did not match those used by the Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins gang that was being pursued by the Joint Services in the area.However, the police are contending otherwise.The eight miners were discovered dead by their employer Leonard Arokium when he visited the camp on Saturday. Their bodies were burnt and reduced to skulls and bones.Speaking to the media on his return from his recent overseas visits,Wholesale Jerseys China, President Jagdeo said that he was informed about the incident while he was in Toronto, Canada.According to the President, he had spoken with Arokium on Saturday evening and expressed his condolences and outrage at what transpired.“I want to do so again to Mr. Arokium and to all the families who have lost loved ones. These people were brutally murdered and I hope that the country will at this point in time express our outrage at what happened and also to be fully supportive of these families,” the president stated.He acknowledged that the incident has raised a major controversy and he assured that the matter will be investigated fully.“We have already asked for some forensic help from America and all of the findings will be made public,” President Jagdeo assured.“I want to urge people, at this stage, not to speculate because we a have syndrome in Guyana where from the time an incident happens, we have people on both sides who know exactly who did it and who didn’t do it. If that were true then we didn’t need any investigation,” the president added.Opposition Leader Robert Corbin had earlier issued a call for an independent enquiry into the slaughter but according to President Jagdeo such an enquiry should also take in all the killings that have occurred since the beginning of the year.Jagdeo said that he has received a letter from Alliance for Change leader Raphael Trotman calling for the enquiry.“If we are to go this route then we will look at all the killings that took place and the circumstances that led to these killings,Wholesale Jerseys 2017, who may be involved and whether there are ties in the political circles of the country,” the president said.However,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, President Jagdeo did not commit to an enquiry, pointing out that he is not too sure if this is the correct vehicle for the investigation of this matter.He explained that it is critical that external expertise be brought into the picture and Government is trying to secure this.The matter,China Jerseys Cheap, he said, will be kept under constant review.He added that he has seen some internal analysis which suggests a scenario that is contrary to what is being reported in the media. Kaieteur News was told that investigators who located the remains on Monday observed what appeared to be bullet wounds in some of the skulls.Police officials said yesterday that some of the assault rifle shells found at the scene of the Lindo Valley slaughter match those retrieved from the Lusignan and Bartica massacres.The ballistics results on four 7.62×39 shells appear to indicate that the brutal killings were the work of the notorious Rondell Rawlins gang, which has been? implicated in the massacres that claimed 23 lives. Examination of the other skulls also indicated that some of the miners were beaten to death with a hammer.A small sledge hammer, reportedly smeared with dried blood and hair, was found in the area where the brutal killings occurred.An official confirmed that the killers had placed the bodies in a heap, along with several items from the camp, and then set them alight. The corpses were literally cremated,Wholesale China Jerseys, leaving only the eight skulls and a few bones.Ever since the gruesome discovery was made, there have been suggestions that the men were slain by persons other than the gang the Joint Services is pursuing.Yesterday, questions were already being raised as to why the gang would have left spent shells that could link them to the crime at the scene, after burning the bodies in an apparent attempt to destroy forensic evidence.However, there is speculation that the burning of the bodies may have been the modus operandi of a gang that felt betrayed.Questions are also