Guam Legislature suspends debate on bill to expand island's only public cemetery after questions over land transfer and plans

The Guam Legislature suspended debate on a bill to expand the island's only public cemetery after members asked for confirmation of land-transfer paperwork and detailed development plans.

Sponsor remarks introduced Bill 49-38 COR as a transfer of Lot 258 in Nimitz Hill to the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to increase burial capacity at Vicente A. Limtiaco Memorial Park (Tiguaq Cemetery). The sponsor said DPR estimates the transfer would provide roughly 20 more years of burial capacity and that the Bureau of Budget and Management Research's fiscal note describes the certificate-of-title issuance as administrative in nature but that construction, land clearing and other work would incur additional costs that DPR had not yet specified.

A November 25, 2025 letter from DPR director Angel R. Sablan was read into the record and appended to the file. The letter, which the sponsor read aloud, said Tiguaq is Guam's only public cemetery and urged immediate…