PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL Health Officer at the Sir Winston Scott Polyclinic, William Richards (backing camera), conducting a session with Fairchild Street Public Market vendors yesterday. At right is Environmental Protection Department inspector Trevor King.
CHIEF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICER Tyrone Applewhaite yesterday read the riot act to the Fairchild Street Public Market’s food vendors, warning that the Ministry of Health would no longer tolerate bad habits which encouraged The City’s large rat population.
He spoke of “deplorable” conditions in the complex and said that no food stalls would be allowed to operate there if they did not function in compliance with the health regulations.
He also told the vendors meeting in the Environmental Health Resource Training Centre in the old National Insurance Scheme Building near the market that the onus was on them to ensure their customers did not dump their refuse indiscriminately.
At a meeting to inform them that their stalls would be inspected on Monday, Applewhaite lambasted conditions at the market, which is now closed, as the Ministry of Transport and Works continued operations ahead of the planned demolition of the market building.
