$50M funeral home launched at Little Diamond

Youthful partner: Kavita Coates is due to travel to the United States shortly to study the science of embalming

Just weeks after the Coateses launched their new $50 million funeral home at Little Diamond on the East Bank Demerara, one of the three directors of the entity, Petal Coates, is talking about writing the family name into the annals of an industry that has already produced quite a few household names.

Carmen’s Funeral Home is named after the now deceased mother of the three siblings — Hilton, Petal and Kavita Coates. The oldest of the three, Hilton, is 40, resides in the United States and is set to return to Guyana in less than a year. Petal and Kavita are 34 and 30