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Monday, February 17, 2025

Freeport mass body storage facility scrapped

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RISHARD KHAN
1148 days ago
20211227

RISHARD KHAN
rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

 

The mass body stor­age for COVID-19 fa­tal­i­ties in Beau­car­ro, Freeport, has been scrapped and the Fu­ner­al Prac­ti­tion­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion is now look­ing for an­oth­er suit­able site to es­tab­lish the fa­cil­i­ty. This is ac­cord­ing to the As­so­ci­a­tion's pres­i­dent Kei­th Bel­grove, on Mon­day.

He said the Freeport lo­ca­tion was ide­al for the fa­cil­i­ty's needs; how­ev­er, the As­so­ci­a­tion has heard the con­cerns of the com­mu­ni­ty.

"At this as­so­ci­a­tion of fu­ner­al pro­fes­sion­als, it was nev­er our in­tent to up­set the res­i­dents in any way. Wher­ev­er fu­ner­al ser­vices op­er­ate, we are part­ners with the com­mu­ni­ty with­in which we op­er­ate," he said.

Bel­grove said the As­so­ci­a­tion al­ready has iden­ti­fied two pos­si­ble sites for re­lo­cat­ing the fa­cil­i­ty, but more will be re­vealed as the process makes head­way.

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