The cemeteries of the National District are in a position to receive the hundreds of relatives of deceased mothers this Sunday who, like every year for the Mother’s dayThey go to the holy fields to bring them flowers and candles.
The Graveyard Christ redeemer it is in excellent condition. Asphalted, clean streets and spaces without weeds are obvious from the moment you enter the place.
Juan Guillermo Acosta, administrator of the cemetery, explained that Mayor Carolina Mejía has put a lot of effort into making sure that the place is in adequate conditions to receive visitors. She clarified that it is not just for the occasion, but that the whole year works to keep it in the best conditions.
“We have been following up on maintenance, the green area, the cleaningthe security. We are prepared so that when people come they see that the City Council is not only prepared for Mother’s Day, but every day,” he explained.
During a tour, it was possible to observe that the places that traditionally have weed were totally clean, with motorized surveillance by municipal and national police. The chapel was also painted and the environment conditioned.
What remains unresolved is the wall on the northwest side, which is still in poor condition and largely does not exist, but Acosta assures that work is being done to correct this problem, which implies the investment of a lot of money.
Similarly, the National or Máximo Gómez Cemetery It is also clean with a painted chapel, conditioned streets, without grass and most of the cemeteries painted, some by relatives of the deceased and others by the authorities themselves.
In the case of Christ the Savior Cemetery, in Santo Domingo Este, the front part is in good hygienic conditions, but not the southwestern part, where the grass reaches eight feet. Some of the streets are unpaved and, according to some visitors, there is no guarantee of security.
Virgilio Ureña, administrator, said that the cemetery is between 80% and 90% clean and that work is being done to complete one hundred percent. He indicated that a plan has been implemented to guarantee the security with the municipal police and on Saturday and Sunday there are enough agents.
He indicated that on Saturday at 10:00 in the morning there will be a mass in the renovated chapel for the relatives of the deceased who want to participate and residents around the cemetery have been invited.
“We have prepared the cleaning brigade to come sweep, engineering is advancing the work on the perimeter fence that we are doing and although it is not ready for Sunday, the cemetery already shows that there are more security than before and we have summoned transportation to send us water trucks,” he said.
Others cemeteries in which work has been done to condition it on the occasion of the Mother’s day They are Cristo Rey and Los Mina. In both works of cleaning and conditioning, both of the internal and external part of the cemetery.
