Families Given 14 Days to Arrange Burials for 11 Deceased Persons

The Chief Health Inspector’s Office says government burials will proceed if relatives fail to make arrangements within the notice period.

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Families Given 14 Days to Arrange Burials for 11 Deceased Persons
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The Office of the Chief Health Inspector is urging relatives of 11 deceased persons whose bodies remain at two funeral homes to come forward and arrange private burials.

Families have been given 14 days from the initial publication of the notice to contact Barnes Funeral Home or Straffie’s Funeral Home.

If arrangements are not made within that period, the office said the Government will have the bodies interred at a public cemetery without further notice.

Seven of the deceased are at Barnes Funeral Home on American Road. The notice identifies them and lists their dates of death as:

  • La Shaune Tunsha Charles — October 19, 2025
  • Karl Lashley — June 3, 2026
  • Silvie Martin — April 4, 2026
  • Rupert Martin — April 1, 2026
  • Jeffery Cornelius — March 8, 2026
  • Isaac Watson — June 24, 2026
  • Samuel Graham — September 3, 2026

The remaining four are at Straffie’s Funeral Home. For these individuals, the notice provides the dates their bodies were received, rather than their dates of death:

  • Gintaras Lokocikas — received May 16, 2025
  • Kelvin Anthony — received June 10, 2025
  • George Phillis — received April 24, 2026
  • Vernon Hippolyte — received April 6, 2026

Relatives are being asked to contact the relevant funeral home within the stipulated period to make the necessary arrangements.

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Comments (3)

  • Apex Jones October 31, 2026, 5:08 PM

    If money was involved you would see hos fast their families would have claimed them

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  • Only me October 31, 2026, 5:26 PM

    You are so so right

    Reply
  • Only me October 31, 2026, 5:28 PM

    Even wen they are the homes and they no they don't no no worth they don't study them never mine wen them dead

    Reply

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