Management of the Good Hope Cemetery has expressed regret at the shallow grave burials recently discovered and has accepted liability for what has happened, according the Public Relations Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital Alero Proctor.
Proctor told Stabroek News that the Hospital’s Management has had a meeting with the Management of the cemetery and crematorium and they have managed to come to a compromise. The crematorium will grant the hospital six concessions for future burials and in an effort to avoid any recurrence of improper or unsafe practice, Proctor reiterated that the Facilities Management Department of the hospital, which is responsible for the operation, will in future have a staff member accompany the corpses to the burial site and oversee the process.
Coffins with unclaimed bodies due for burial had been discovered stacked atop each other in single shallow grave plots at