The US insists it has given Bermuda everything it needs to complete a security check of the four Guantánamo Bay Uighurs — but Governor Sir Richard Gozney yesterday disagreed.

He revealed on Wednesday that the Bermuda Police Service had still not received all the information it needed to carry out checks on the former prisoners, who arrived in Bermuda on June 11, and described officers as being "stymied through no fault of their own".

Sir Richard would not say exactly where the information needed to come from but explained that it was not from any entity in Britain or Bermuda.

The Royal Gazette asked the US Department of Justice if it or any other US department was responsible for the delay and National Security Division spokesman Dean Boyd told us: "The United States has provided such information."

Sir Richard begged to differ. "We need and hope for more from that country's various authorities," he said yesterday.

The UK and US are still in talks about whether the Uighur Muslims, who will have been on the Island for a month on Saturday, will stay on Bermuda or go elsewhere.

The men spent seven years at Guantánamo, where they were twice cleared by the US of being enemy combatants. Premier Ewart Brown brought them here without the UK's involvement, sparking what he called a "negative firestorm".