For the past week, 7News has been following the less-than-smooth transition at the Cemetery as the Belize City Council has taken over management and control. Well tonight, undertaker David Coye, owner of the well-known Coye Funeral Parlor is the one kicking up dust. According to him, City Hall is enforcing new rules for everyone, except a select few.
Here's how he explained it:
David Coye - Coye Funeral Home
"I have purchase that space to build a tomb for a funeral either Sunday or Monday. They denied my payment and they show me a notice on their wall that the new prices from $150 - it is now $250 just today and it comes with a new application fee of $25. They insist to me that I have to pay $1,000 so that City Councils' workers can build the tomb."
"Goldbourne "Easy Glen" Adolphus went to purchase two spaces yesterday for an undertaker. I guess he is doing his hustling. He went there and they accepted his payment. Goldbourne doesn't have any construction business, no kind of business at all. Anyway they accepted his payment for two space and them some guys who claimed that they are relatives is building the tombs."
"The record is there because he had to sign, so you can check with the office after this. For them to accept Goldbourne payment why they can't accept mine and I have a legit business. That clearly they are signaling me out as public enemy #1. They are trampling my business and legit persons who are doing an honest trade - pay their tax and GST, everything to time."
This evening, Dion Leslie, the Deputy Mayor with responsibility for the Cemeteries, told 7News that there was a confusion with Golburne "Easy Glenn" Adolphus because Leslie was trying to propose an amendment of the new regulations to assist poor families.
Leslie told us that this proposal is in its infancy stage, but Adolphus pressed forward and made payment which should not have been accepted by the Council.
He assured us that this confusion will not occur again, and that everyone who tries to get grave spaces will have to follow the rules, and pay the fees which everyone else must adhere to.
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