Dear Editor,
We have all experienced those clichéd opening scenes of horror movies where the wind whistles and sometimes roars through the trees of an overgrown cemetery. This is how I envisage Guyana’s burial grounds.
My eldest daughter would have been 32 years old today had she not been killed by an alleged drunken driver nigh-on 15 years ago. Because of the absolutely horrendous condition of the Le Repentir cemetery, I have been unable to visit her grave for over two years.
It is apparent that not only have we lost respect for the living with the escalating and avoidable killings on our roads, but this continues even after our loved ones are buried. The undignified treatment of the dead is a sin.
A cemetery is one of the few places one can seek solace and comfort. In Guyana our burial grounds are nothing less than overgrown and inaccessible dumps. Shame… Shame… Shame…
Yours faithfully,
Denise Dias
Founder
The Alicea Foundation/Mothers In
Black
