The Med­ical Coun­cil of Guyana (MCOG) says it has post­poned a de­ci­sion on the short-term reg­is­tra­tion of Trinida­di­an pathol­o­gist Dr Hu­bert Dais­ley, who has been iden­ti­fied by the fam­i­ly lawyers of 11-year-old Adri­ana Younge to pro­vide a fourth opin­ion in the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to her death.

Young was found dead in a pool at a ho­tel in Guyana late last month and ac­cord­ing to an au­top­sy con­duct­ed by three in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned pathol­o­gists, her death was due to drown­ing.

Sam­ples of the wa­ter and spec­i­mens from her body have been dis­patched to the Unit­ed States for test­ing, of­fi­cials have said.

In a state­ment, the MCOG said that dur­ing its statu­to­ry meet­ing held on Mon­day, new in­for­ma­tion came to light that was not avail­able at the time of Dr Dais­ley’s pre­vi­ous reg­is­tra­tion.

“In keep­ing with our man­date to up­hold the high­est stan­dards of med­ical prac­tice in Guyana, the Coun­cil has de­ter­mined that the mat­ter war­rants ad­di­tion­al in­ves­ti­ga­tion and ver­i­fi­ca­tion,” the MCOG said.

The Coun­cil said it has writ­ten for­mal­ly to the Med­ical Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go seek­ing fur­ther in­for­ma­tion about Dr Dais­ley and that the Board has ac­knowl­edged re­ceipt of the re­quest in­di­cat­ing that a re­sponse will be forth­com­ing.

The MCOG gave no de­tails as to what “new in­for­ma­tion” is be­ing re­quest­ed, but said that a fi­nal de­ci­sion re­gard­ing Dr Dais­ley’s ap­pli­ca­tion will be made af­ter the ad­di­tion­al in­for­ma­tion is re­viewed.

Dr Dais­ley is the sec­ond in­ter­na­tion­al pathol­o­gist iden­ti­fied by the le­gal team rep­re­sent­ing the Younge fam­i­ly.

On Mon­day, Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali all but ruled out more for­eign in­ves­ti­ga­tors com­ing to Guyana to probe the death of the child whose body was found in a ho­tel pool on April 24.

“I’ve al­ready done what I had to do,” Ali told re­porters af­ter ad­dress­ing the 39th an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean Com­mis­sion­ers of Po­lice (AC­CP).

The fam­i­ly has called on the gov­ern­ment to have the Unit­ed States Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion (FBI) or oth­er in­ter­na­tion­al law en­force­ment bod­ies in­ves­ti­gate the young girl’s death.

Ali told re­porters that the post-mortem on Younge’s body was con­duct­ed by for­eign in­de­pen­dent foren­sic pathol­o­gists, and re­tired Roy­al Cana­di­an Mount­ed Po­lice (RCMP) homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tor, Leonard Mc­Coshen, has been hired to as­sist lo­cal po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors.

Pres­i­dent Ali said the mat­ter is now be­ing politi­cised.

The fu­ner­al for the child was due to have tak­en place last Mon­day, but the fam­i­ly said it would be post­poned.

In a mes­sage post­ed on her Face­book page, the child’s moth­er, Ame­cia Si­mon, gave no date as to when the fu­ner­al would now take place, say­ing that a new date will be pro­vid­ed in due course “once we are able to”.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana, May 13, CMC -

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