City crematorium to be completed by weekend

Works still in progress on Georgetown’s first crematorium, which is slated to be open on Saturday. (Photo by Arian Browne)

Works at Georgetown’s first crematorium is expected to be completed on March 1, according to Head of the Cemetery Committee Ranwell Jordan.

Jordan told reporters last Friday that the crematorium, which is located in the same compound with the Le Repentir Cemetery, would be a state-of-the-art facility.

Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green had said that since early 2013, the Mayor and City Council along with the revived Cemetery Committee began to seriously look at an application by Dr. Carl Niamatali to build a crematorium. She said that the city’s role will be