NEW CEMETERY. The ongoing construction of a new Ormoc City public cemetery in this Oct. 25, 2021 photo. The city has started building a new public cemetery to address the shortage of burial plots, the city government said on Thursday (Oct. 28, 2021).(Photo courtesy of Ormoc City government) TACLOBAN CITY - Ormoc City has started building a new public cemetery to address the shortage of burial plots, the city government said on Thursday. With an allocation of PHP30 million, the four-hectare project in Can-Adieng village officially began last June 30 and will be completed on Oct. 22, 2022. The new public cemetery will have big roads, parking spaces, an ossuary, a Potter's Field for the indigents. There is also a proposal for a crematorium and columbarium. "It will provide our underprivileged and indigent residents of Ormoc a decent place to bury their loved ones. We are also now about to close a deal for the purchase of adjacent lots for a bigger cemetery that will serve the nee