Meeting tomorrow on Kitch grave

A meeting is to be held tomorrow to try to solve the situation that has arisen over the resting place at the Arima Cemetery of Road March king, Lord Kitchener, Keith Belgrove of Kitch’s Cemetery Management Committee and Valerie Green, former wife of the deceased said yesterday.

The family were prevented from erecting a memorial to the Grandmaster when the parish priest of the Santa Rosa church, Fr Christian Perreira, in-formed Green that the plot belonged to the St Vincent de Paul Society. The family had hoped that the matter could have been resolved in time for April 18, which marked the anniversary of Kitchener’s 80th birthday. Green argued that the plot was given to the family by then parish priest Fr Leo Donovan, who has since returned to Ireland. Belgrove, who is helping Green to settle the issue, has also been meeting with the RC Church and St Vincent de Paul Society.

He is now however in the process of acquiring a cemetery in Tacarigua and in the event that their bid to have the body remain at the Santa Rosa site is turned down, the body will be moved to his cemetery. According to the Burial Grounds Act, Chapter 30:50 Section 12 (1) Every application for permission to re-open an unwalled grave for the purpose of exhumation after the expiration of seven years from the date of burial in the case of a person above 12 years of age shall be in writing and addressed to the Minister.