May Pen Cemetery in St. Andrew.
Kingston's Mayor Desmond McKenzie says the police have no evidence to support their claims that numerous skeletal remains found Wednesday in sections of May Pen Cemetery are those of murder victims.
Mayor McKenzie says it has come as no surprise that scores of bones litter sections of the 200-acre cemetery.
“The fact is that ACP [Les] Green should have first checked with the KSAC to find out because there is no denying that in certain sections of the cemetery, especially where paupers are buried because of the condition that exists there whenever it rains, a lot of the boxes are washed out of the ground,”
“I have to admit that it is the fault of the management of the cemetery that does not insist that the graves are dug to the dimensions specified under the law,” Mr. McKenzie said.
Cadaver dogs from the United States discovered the remains Wednesday during a search of sections of the cemetery.
Several West Kingston residents involved in the clearing of overgrown foliage in the Cemetery say they too have stumbled on numerous skeletal remains over the past two weeks.
The Police High Command is expected to meet with officials of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation, the Superintendent in charge of the Cemetery and the Health Ministry to discuss the latest find.
Efforts to reach Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green for a comment were unsuccessful as up to news time we were told he was in a meeting.
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