IT?SEEMS?that gravediggers at Westbury Cemetery are disregarding last week’s announcement by Minister of the Environment Denis Lowe that the controversial practice of subcontracting the digging of graves had been discontinued.
On Tuesday the DAILY?NATION saw two “outsiders” at work digging graves at the cemetery.
When approached, both men put down their hoes and walked away.
One was asked if he was aware that he should not be digging graves. He replied: “Don’t worry about that; everything getting finalized.” Asked to explain what he meant, he said that he had applied for a job as a gravedigger. “Nothing don’t happen before its time,” he added. (MB)
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