The Department of Environmental Health is renewing efforts to tackle the problem of unsanitary food vendors after customers made a number of complaints – including finding cockroaches in their food.
According to the Department of Environmental Health, this is one of just 50 complaints they are looking into at the moment – and the rate at which complaints are being made continues to increase. Two persons called The Tribune after opening food containers they purchased from a vendor who sells meals from a stall.
“When I bought food today, there was roaches in the food, I felt totally disgusted,” one of them said. Both customers decided to return their food to the lady, who replaced it with another container – which again contained live roaches, they claimed.
“There is a high increase in complaints,” admitted Environmental Health parliamentary secretary Ron Pinder.
Mr Pinder pointed out, however, that this may not have to do with the fact that “the island is becoming more unsanitary”, but rather that more people are becoming aware of “how crucial healthy conditions are”.
“There are programmes about environmental health being given to school students to become more aware about the health of the environment they live in and what they can do to help ensure it stays that way,” said Mr Pinder.
When made aware of the cockroach encounter, Environmental Health official Nadia Bain said she would check into this matter and make certain that something was done.
It is highly unlikely that anything will be done about the situation. Department of Health officials have never closed the disgusting Double Dragon restaurant, despite numerous complaints of cockroaches being found in the take-out orders. οΎ It is alleged that the owner of the filthy Chinese restaurant simply pays off the Health inspectors to have them overlook the unsanitary conditions of the restaurant.
