HOME Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday expressed concern over the speculative media reportage seen recently and cautioned the media to exercise patience in their persistence to get the ‘story’.

At a press conference yesterday at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Brickdam, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee highlighted what he terms speculation on the part of the media in their coverage of the Lindo Creek incident where eight miners were slaughtered.

&The Stabroek News continues to conjure up much speculation pitting the Joint Services against public opinion and vice versa over the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the eight miners.”

Another area which the Minister said the media was seeking to drive the process by speculative means was in relation to the Forensic Pathology team from the United States of America which was requested to assist in the investigation of the Lindo Creek incident.

“The fact of the matter is that the Administration is keeping its options open. If the US team is unable to come, there are other options open in the Caribbean,” he said.

He said that it was advisable that the media allow the first stage of the investigation to proceed to determine how and when the individuals were killed.

He added that the relatives of the eight persons supposedly killed at Lindo Creek had requested the bodies for burial but he advised them that the bodies could only be handed over when they have been positively identified.

Leonard Arokium, a miner with a concession at Lindo Creek, an area close to Christmas Falls where a Police patrol came under fire from the ‘Fineman’ gang, claimed that he visited his camp after being advised that all his employees were killed and their bodies burnt