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City Hall exploring old burial site

Jun 20, 2011 News

Le Repentir running out of space?

With the recent announcement by Town Clerk Yonette Pluck about Le Repentir Cemetery running out of burial spots, many have expressed concern about where their loved ones will be laid to rest.
However, Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green said that the council is working on developing an old burial site which would solve this problem.
According to Mayor Green, the council is looking at a plot of land located at the east and south side of the Le Repentir dump site. Green said that the area was used as a burial site over a century ago and given the desperate situation the Council is in, they are exploring the possibility of reusing the two areas. He however pointed to the fact that it will cost millions to develop the land, and this is money the council does not have. The Mayor further pointed to the fact that Council has exhausted all of their avenues to garner funds to carry out works on the cemetery.
Green revealed that Council had written to the Ministry of Home Affairs to have the Ministry pay for using Council land on which the Special Constabulary Headquarters is located.
“The land on which the Special Constabulary sits on belongs to us. We have been trying to get them to pay us for the use but to no avail.”
According to Green, the recent $76 M allocation by the Ministry of Public Work for the cemetery restoration project will not cover making more burial spots available. Greene added that the Council had also approached an investor from Barbados with the aim of saving the cemetery, but that too failed to work.
“When the investor came he looked at the cemetery and said it was beyond working to restore, so here we are,”
The Mayor added that in the meantime the Council has begun some drainage works in the area where they have thought about developing.
According to the Mayor, for several months now the council had written to the Government asking for a plot of land which is located on the lower East Coast of Demerara but to date they have not received a response.
Through the grapevine the Council learnt that the land has since been given over to a private investor.

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