CABINET NOTES: The Cabinet invited the Chief Pathologist to address the issue of autopsies and the state of the government-owned mortuary.
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The principal reliance for the disposal of cadavers lies with the two funeral homes–providing the dead are claimed by a family.
When a person dies in the public hospital or on the streets, and the dead is not claimed, the responsibility for burial becomes the taxpayers’.
A larger number of family members are refusing to claim their dead, and the funeral homes do not accept the human remains for storage.
Hence, the Ministry of Health, under whose portfolio falls the Central Board of Health, is seeking to strengthen the storage capability.
A decision was made to purchase freezers that will be placed in the mortuary building at the old Holberton Hospital that can accommodate up to six cadavers.
Autopsies can also be carried out at that building, and on the properties of the funeral home.
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I jus want to know why JESSICA BARNES charges so much for a simple burial
The government needs to cap the price of burial
A simple box $12 to 15 thousand dollars???
She dnt even do any work on a body unless it’s high soci ppl she all over the embalming
Why she charges so much
I think the government should freeze the body until the families can purchase a box
This wicked gyal in COVID period was charging ppl ridiculous amounts of money
It’s high time Antigua mortuaries offer Cremation its high time they have crematoriums …….
A simple cremation in the US cost $1200.00.
This can relieve families who are struggling or who dnt want the financial burden of burying their dead.
It amazes me how ppl have monies to party but no money to bury their dead jus patiently waiting on the government to give $2500.00 to help bury dead …
I think instead of giving that money put it towards storage & cremation of that dead.
So if no one claims their dead that money isn’t released either to anyone.
Lyrically still…
🧌🗣️🎙️
…Be #still and know,
…whose is dis, Yah will?
…den vibe pan dis!
…is dis, an earth crisis?
…being solved, by the hand; of, hit or miss
…Our leaders are lost no doubt!
…it’s in, the rhetoric coming from their mouths!
…yet, they’re failing to speak, the #god_spelt truth
…as, to why? Oh why? Why? Why?
…HUEmans have become, so uncouth!
…that, even to bury their loved ones
…who are already dead! Dead! Dead
…they must make a choice, between such; and, being fed!
…so, it’s plain to see!
…what’s before this beautiful Country!
…that, even my fellow CountryMan Abroad
…can feel and hear the ripples,
…from, the concentric circles
…emanating through the dropping of, this pebble
…so much so, that he may consider them to be #devils
…#Who’re causing Our Nation!
…these kinds of unnecessary, troubles
…so, are they a #satanic_cabal?
…being very devious, and troublesome!
…as, they team up; with, The Ecumenicals!
Bah dah bah do die, dey die!
Die! Die!
Bah dah bah do die, dey die!
Die! Die!
Bah dah bah do die, dey die!
Die! Die!
‘Cause, I’m still trying to understand
Boom! Boom!
How my sweet, sweet! Sweet Wadadli Nation
Have found itself, in these dying situations!
Come on man Gaston!
Not only is this embarrassing!
The People are screaming!
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That is not the solution. Go to parliament and hold family member accountable for the burial cost of next of kin. But then again some live overseas and do not care. They will not incur any expense for their loved one. I suggest a body that is not claimed within a certain time frame. Lets say three months or ninety days should be disposed of by the state in an unmarked grave or cremated. The tax payers cannot be saddled with high bill that only benefits Straffie and Barnes.
This is an absolute disgrace! Have we been so debased that people have no shame?
I do not think they have been shamed as yet. Perhaps we need to place their names in the newspaper and on the ABS News and demand them to come and burry their loved ones. Maybe when their names are called or printed people will know who these families are and than perhaps they will feel the shame. But as I said some of them do not live here and don’t give a damn.
I’ve been saying this over the years. ANTIGUA NEEDS TO WAKE UP TO 2024 AND BUILD A CREMATORIUM. The GOVERNMENT is the one holding up the dam process. Cremation is the least expensive way to deal with the deceased. In the USA, California or NY for example and a cremation is just $1’200 to $1, 500 total and if you want a viewing for a day, it’s just $500 to $750 for the embalming and “renting” of a casket for the one day viewing. If anyone in Antigua wants cremation they have to go through the ordeal of sending the body overseas to the USVI , Barbados or St. Lucia which become very expensive and tedious. Again, ANTIGUA, ABLP, BARNES AND STRAFFIE ITS TIME FOR A CREMATORIUM. THIS IS 2024 NOT 1974!!!