FOLLOWING a one-day delay the post-mortems on the bodies of the people killed during the operation by the security forces in West Kingston last week, will begin tomorrow.

Last night, a Government source said the delay resulted from the fact that the independent pathologists contracted by the Government from overseas have not yet arrived.

Photographs of the dead will be displayed from 10:00 am at the Tivoli

Gardens Community Centre where the Police Complaints Office is located,

and at the former remand centre at 14 Metcalfe Street.

Friends and relatives of the deceased will also be able to view image

on computers provided by the police. Police are requesting that persons

travel with photographs of the deceased to help the process of

identification.

The services of independent pathologists

via the Office of the Public Defender and Jamaicans For Justice.

Persons can telephone the Office of the Public Defender at 922-7109 or

922-7089; or Jamaicans For Justice at 755-4355 or 755-4471.

The post-mortems, the police said, would be conducted at the Spanish Town Funeral Home, Spanish Town Hospital Morgue and Madden’s Funeral Home. The police had also promised to provide transportation to and from the venues.

Yesterday, relatives of people killed during the operation gathered outside Madden’s Funeral Home in downtown Kingston demanding to be allowed to identify the bodies of their family members.

“Something needs to be done. This is the third time I come to identify my sister who was shot dead in Tivoli last week and can’t get to see her,” said one woman.

Owner of the funeral home, Ferdinand Madden, said that with the large number of bodies, and with some of them in a decomposed state, plans would have to be made to accommodate all the families at a selected time.

“We want to appeal to the powers that be to speed up the process, and get the bodies buried,” said Madden.