“If your grave hurts so much, come and clean it, because what we do is clean the common areas,” is how the mayor of Santo Domingo Este expressed himself in the face of criticism that the cemetery Christ the Savior is full of grass.
He stated that the tombs belong to those who buy them and that each owner is responsible for cleaning their area and that if their dead hurts them so much, they should go and clean the space because they do not even pay to keep the cemetery clean.
He recalled that the responsibility of the cleaning In the cemeteries it is the hallways and common areas and he assured that the mayor’s office does not have the budget to keep the more than five thousand square meters that this cemetery has clean.
He maintained that in his management the cemetery It has its own brigade, not like before when an entity outside the mayor’s office was the one that maintained the place.
In relation to the securityAstacio stated that people can go with security because there is security by the Police and the mayor’s office. “During the day there are no robberies here, now if you come at 12:00 at night to do a dark act, you may be robbed, but during the day there are no robberies here, they are eliminated here,” he reiterated.
New ossuaries
The mayor Dio Astacio spoke to the press after breaking ground for the construction of a ossuary with capacity for 1,000 corpses in the central part and announced another thousand, but for people with greater economic capacity in the front part of the cemetery.
He stated that he already cemetery Christ the Savior is not like before, however, a team of Free Diary He observed that in large part the grass is up to nine and 10 feet, due to the time it has not been cut.
In the place where the event was held, the weeds completely covered four-level niches and the secondary streets are on dirt and the primary streets have holes and puddles. Mayor Astacio reported that the Ministry of Public Works has already started a program to pave the roads of the cemetery.
