Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Two British men eat before Heroes Circle crab vendor, Alice, defecated in a bucket in her shop to cook crab soup in dodo original video.
The vendor, who is a mother of two, said she depends on ‘Crab Circle’ to provide for her family, which includes a two-year-old child.
“Mi nuh know [what me a guh do] and mi have mi baby fi send gah school,” the woman said.
Health officials shut down the stalls after a video surfaced on social media of a vendor defecating in her area and cleaning herself with toilet paper which she casually disposes in a bucket. Chief Public Health Inspector Grayson Hutchinson described the vendor’s action as “a disgusting and unpleasant act”.
The public health chief said some of the vendors were operating without valid food handlers permits.
“There are a number of other breaches which have been committed and hence we thought that it is best that the facility be closed temporarily so that they can correct the breaches,” he said.
Thursday, as the health officials went about shutting down the stalls, some of the vendors directed their fury to one of their number, who they accuse of making the now viral video. They claim that their livelihood would not have been placed in limbo if the act was not made public.
Mayor of Kingston Delroy Williams says the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is taking “very seriously” death threats allegedly made against crab vendor who video-recorded a colleague relieving herself at a stall at Heroes Circle.
The Kingston and St Andrew Health Department closed the popular food spot on Thursday after the video of the unsanitary activity emerged. It was also disclosed that, among other things, the area renovated last year lacks adequate water and bathroom facilities.
“Let me use this opportunity to urge anyone involved in the intimidation and harassment… to desist from doing so. She has been an advocate on their behalf for many years and was pivotal to the consulting process for the upgrades and renovations,” said Williams in a statement late Friday evening. “We’re expecting that vendors should operate in accordance with the public health food handler’s regulations and that kind of activity is certainly unacceptable. As a matter fact it’s despicable,” Hutchinson said.
The National Heroes Circle location is known for serving up street food such as cooked crabs, roasted and boiled corn, roasted yam, roasted saltfish and soup. It was renovated by J. Wray and Nephew, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation in 2022.
