Families in Sigatoka will soon benefit from a new gas-fired crematorium at Koromumu Cemetery, as the Ministry of Multi-Ethnic Affairs delivers on a request from the Sigatoka Town Council to provide improved and dignified facilities for the community.
The Ministry says recognizing the central location of Koromumu and the large number of people who rely on the facility, they allocated one gas-fired crematorium unit to the council who made the request to the Ministry.
They say preparatory works are already underway through joint efforts of the Ministry and the Town Council.
He says this is part of the Ministry’s wider program to deliver two gas-fired crematoriums in the current financial year, as committed by the Minister for Sugar Industry, Charan Jeath Singh.
Singh says this is something the people of Sigatoka, and indeed the wider community, have long been deprived of - a modern facility to farewell their departed ones with dignity.
He says the project is expected to benefit a large number of families across Sigatoka and the surrounding areas once completed,
Singh adds gas-fired crematoriums also serve a wider purpose in supporting Fiji’s climate change commitments by reducing greenhouse emissions and minimizing the cutting of local timber traditionally used in cremations.
