A foren­sic pathol­o­gist is ex­pect­ed to re­port for du­ty to­day at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James so that the back­log of bod­ies there is cleared.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that there have been no au­top­sies con­duct­ed since last week due to al­leged con­trac­tu­al is­sues with the pathol­o­gists cur­rent­ly on staff.

How­ev­er, Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young said yes­ter­day he was on­ly ap­prised of the sit­u­a­tion on Wednes­day and moved im­me­di­ate­ly to sign a doc­u­ment for a pathol­o­gist to be hired im­me­di­ate­ly. Speak­ing dur­ing yes­ter­day’s post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing, Young said he ex­pect­ed the sit­u­a­tion to be re­solved with­in the next 24 hours start­ing from yes­ter­day and sub­se­quent­ly ex­tend­ed an apol­o­gy to fam­i­lies who are cur­rent­ly in­con­ve­nienced.

Fam­i­lies of mur­der vic­tims, drown­ings, ac­ci­dents and oth­er cas­es sus­pect­ed of un­nat­ur­al caus­es of deaths are the ones af­fect­ed.

Young al­so dis­closed that he has al­ready had talks with of­fi­cials from the Unit­ed Na­tions De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme in lo­cat­ing a foren­sic pathol­o­gist from “around the world.” —Rhon­dor Dowlat