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Even the dead can’t rest in peace
Even in their final resting place the dead are not resting in peace as over a dozen tombs at the St Mary’s Anglican Church, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara were found to be desecrated.
Some of the damaged tombs.
Representatives of the church are cleaning up the burial ground. The result is that tree trucks after they were chopped down, smashed several tombs. But there were other tombs that appeared to be forcibly shattered and damaged.
Where the churchyard is closed, such as is the case of St Mary’s Anglican Church, the local authority usually takes over responsibility for the cost of maintenance of all aspects— buildings, walls, pathways, tombs and memorials.
In older churchyards the most common hazards are table tombs when the lid or sides have become unstable or fall away.
If the grass is not regularly cut all of these can be obscured.
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