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Lord’s Ridge – it’s full to overflowing and reports are the old cemetery only has a few more burial plots available. That’s accurate, but City Hall says that with the assistance of the Ministry of Works it is responding and there will not be a burial crisis. The cemetery is expanding on the western side – filing up that swampy area with 200 loads of fill – made available at thirty dollars per load through an arrangement with the Ministry of Works. Today, councillor with responsibility for the cemetery Wayne Usher told us more.

Wayne Usher, City Councillor
“I want to allay the public that there is still quite a bit of burial space available. Once we get the filling done no need to worry. If your camera can point at it from here to that tree, that big tree, we have space even beyond the tree to fill. So we will be here a little while. The spaces very limited. I would give us another two weeks if we did not do the expansion. So we are still two weeks ahead if you want to put it that way. We are two weeks ahead. We will be here for another year or so minimal because we not only have this section here to fill but there are some over the other side of the road that also needs filling that is also part of our cemetery. Our boundaries show that there is more land but it needs to be filled because it is swamp land. So we’ll be here for a little while longer. Eventually Jules, we will have to find another spot for another Belize City cemetery. This one will eventually outgrow itself because of the housing developments that is around it. So we cannot expand where we are right now, except to continue the filling until we’ve exhausted the land here. But further down the road we will talk to central government very shortly about finding a new location with more land for the Belize City cemetery.”

The council is also asking for an SI to be approved which would allow for the construction of vaults, mausoleums and other space saving burial arrangements.