Ongoing excavation work at the Booby Alley site has come across human bones
and the authorities were called in to investigate the matter.
The revelation came from Prime Minister Gaston Browne, the parliamentary
representative for the area, who said there is nothing to be alarmed about as the
appropriate authorities are dealing with the discovery.
“Local knowledge is that a ceremony was at the site about 250 years ago.
However, many years later the area was the site for residential area. Reportedly,
bones have been unearthed at the site before, but not during the current
construction work” PM Browne stated on the Saturday radio programme. He noted
too that unearthing human bones on construction sites is not a new phenomenon as
this has happened here in Antigua and Barbuda as we as other parts of the globe.
This practice, he explains is to re-bury the bones at an alternate site.
The prime minister further explained that the police were called in just to verify
that the bones were not the remains of anyone recently died and buried. Local
archaeologist, Dr. Reginald Murphy was also summoned and reports are that he
indicated that the bones were from someone who died more than two centuries
ago.
According to PM Browne Saturday was the first time that bones have been
unearthed since the Chinese took possession of the site several weeks ago.
The Booby Alley site is where the Chinese government is financing major housing
development for people of the Point area. Work at the site is proceeding.
