BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – POLICE have confirmed that the skeletal remains discovered yesterday (Oct. 14) at South Friar’s Bay Beach in the vicinity of the Shipwreck Beach Bar and Grill are those of a human being.
A press release issued this morning by the Police Public Relations Office states that yesterday during the passage of Tropical Storm Rafael, “officers of Frigate Bay Police Station, CID, and Crime Scene Unit responded to a report at Friar’s Bay, South East Peninsula that a partial skull and partial rib cage were washed ashore.
“The remains were taken into police custody by CRO for further analysis”.
This media house was informed that the almost copper-coloured remains, skull and upper torso, were discovered by individuals who were on the beach.
A number of individuals who were at the scene had taken pictures of the human remains and one of them had posted the photo on Facebook.
This is the second such find reported in approximately 21 months.
On January 25, 2011, the skeletal remains of a human were unearthed on a construction site east of the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine in West Farm.
Information reaching SKNVibes at that time stated that while workers of DCK International Construction Company were preparing the foundation for construction of a building next to the university, the skull of a human being surfaced after they dug some three feet into the ground.
An informed source said that further digging revealed additional human remains, which, like the skull, seemed to be those of an infant.
Police had taken the remains into custody and the then Press and Public Relation Officer, Inspector Vaughan Henderson, had told this media house that “officers from the Crime Scene Department collected the remains and took them into police custody for further analysis and investigation, while officers from the CID interviewed a number of construction workers and professional staff of Ross University who were all of the opinion that the skeletal remains were akin to that of an archeological find”.
He also said that efforts were being made to get scientists from Ross University, in collaboration with the St. Christopher National Trust, to determine the origin and age of the remains.
To date, no word on the analysis was received from the police.
