The Environmental Health Department has set up a ‘No Vending Zone’ around the vicinity of the Windsor Park Stadium during the West Indies/Zimbabwe Test which kicks off on Wednesday.
The department said this is being done because large gatherings of people pose risky practices in relation to food vending which may lead to outbreaks of food-borne illnesses.
The No Vending zones are as follows:
– Bath Road- from the Police Station north, down to the Goodwill access bridge;
– Kennedy Avenue- from the intersection of Independent Street East , to the intersection of Bath Road;
– Hillsborough Street- from the intersection of Independent Street East, to the intersection of Bath Road;
– River Street- from the intersection of Bath Road East, to the Forestry Building.
The department said although the existing health services and other support services of the country have adequate capacity to manage the regular disease burden affecting its own population, a mass gathering can put severe strain on such services. “Hence the need for vending foods in a safe environment with limited health risks,” the department said in a release.
“We are also requesting of the public to manage their litter and refuse and utilize sanitary facilities available,” the department said.
The Test match begins on Wednesday at 10:00 am.
Fooling the people again and again and again. Carnival time, especially the two days of jump-up, do pose a greater health threat. Isn’t carnival about hosting an event to attract visitors? More alcohol, urine, dust, rubbish, no such regulations. More health risks. No Environmental Health. Someone twisted the EHO’s hand in favour of …….. Some shall eat all.
You are comparing carnival to this Match. There is no comparison. If you think that such exists during carnival, then this a greater reason why there should no vending around Windsor Park. Consider the visitors. Need I state more?
Lol. eh beh mi daybar. international standards. well then get an international standard ticket booth to begin with.
people paid to vend in the stadium, but ma gway sa if the other venders have better food or cheaper food than them, they should be accomodated. why not charge them a smaller fee for instance. these people are NOT LAZY AND RUNNING TO THE DAM RED CLINIC, give them a chance to earn their keep!!!
AND SO THE CRY OF THE MA LAY WAY CONTINUES …
Have you noticed that they forgot Cork Street?
Squeeze dem skerro Squeeze dem
This is an overkill! All of this is certainly not necessary. I can understand an attempt at trying to create order and protect the population from diseases, but how a few vendors on these streets mentioned compare with the situation around carnival time. Somebody trying to be smart and creative has made a mess of this. And yes , again only the less fortunate suffers.
You should know that it is not only Dominicans who will be at the Windsor Park. It may not be orderly which is another reason why this restriction is in place. For obvious reasons an atmosphere of quietude should prevail around the Windsor Park.
It makes good sense. This cricket match will attract many more people as authorities and dignitaries from practically all over the world. There are times we must think beyond. I also view it in another aspect. I can comprehend the reason for this. There are a few reasons including health reasons.
There should also not be a zoo-like gathering around the Stadium to purchase food and drinks of any sort. It will make the area especially the entrance to the Stadium unattractive, noisy and lower the prestige of it.
The Stadium entrance and surroundings should be cleared and quiet so that everyone including the patrons could enter in peacefully with no disruptions of any sort. Their peace of mind should not be disrupted. They should be allowed to enter, sit comfortably and to enjoy the Match. Keep it dignified.
Nothing to do with health or else most Dominicans would be dead already, standards are already in place to prevent that, most have licence. You can’t play first world when we all know you are Third world. Do they think they can just hide things unique to us and safe, till the visitors leave? Many visitors want the Dominican experience, vendors and all; many of them know the difference between playing first world when you are actually Third World. Visitors know you are surpressing vendors to fool them!
Oh No! you mean no stale oil and cold foods? Come on environmental health!
This is a lame excuse that have nothing to do with food illness. Be truthful with us and say it like it is, to sell food you need a permit. What’s the difference if you eat the same food outside the stadium or by the market?
I am all for safe and clean food but I suspect in this case these measurements are also put in place to protect the interests of those, who are licensed to cater in/around the stadium. If this is so, I think few people would object but the authorities concerned should be transparent about this if they do not want to generate ill feelings. For instance “who are these caterers”, “what are the fees and conditons to quality for a license”, “what percentage of the bar takings for instance has to be given to the organisers?”
Everybody should be given an equal opportunity for the next event.
All shall NOT eat.
Come on people, what disease outbreak? This is just a marketing tool for the sellers within Windsor Park to make more money. I mean why all the way to Independence Street. What about the poor vendors trying to make bread to survive. Do not be fooled people; this is set just for Windsor Park vendors to make more money.
So what’s your point? You’re saying that the Windsor park vendors who have paid thousands of dollars to buy the right to vend inside the park must jeapordize their ability to make back their money to allow vendors who pay a nominal fee to vend?
You ever see non-paying vendors outside the stadiums around the world? Do you? How do you think the stadium pays its costs? Partly by charging for vending rights and onsite vendors have to make back their money if the stadium officials are going to to be able to continue selling vending right onsite. This really has to be explained to you? Do you want the stadium or not? Or you thought the Chinese or some other donor will pay maintenance and operating costs for the stadium?
Next thing you wil be demanding to know why we should pay taxes for the international airport because we poor and struggling and cant afford. stewps.
So only for events such as these that the environmental health people want to flex their muscles? So who they think they are fooling? Tell dem man to wheel and come again.
Carnival time is more disperse, with more people milling everywhere on the dirty streets, and you don’t hear about these hypocrites. Now in an event where patrons are clinically seated (away) in an enclosed stadium they want to install this regimen on the backs of the poor and struggling vendors.
The Roseau market and streets, are filled with un-vaccinated illegal migrants, who are selling foodstuff to the populace without any food handlers permit. The Environmental Health people are not concerned about that, neither do they supervise the destruction of hazardous waste in the landfill and the list continues, instead they want to assume the role of OPPRESSOR of poor Dominican vendors(mainly women) who are trying to feed their children in an honest way.
I support you 100%. This has nothing to do with health issues, this is pure GREED.
If they so concerned about health and sanitary issues, where the hell were the portable toilets? In that time and age men and women have to docking behind cars to relieve themselves during carnival.
Generation after generation these women have been selling food to take care of their families, how many Dominicans you know that have died as a result of un-sanitary condition and food borne diseases?
This is where the people of Dominica have to stand up for each other. If they are not allowing vendors around the stadium then boycott the game. See how quick they will change their tune…
Like somebody else stated, this is oppression of the poor, nothing less!
I know, right! I don’t know who they think swallowed that flimsy story. chah man!…when they finish they want to talk about crime and prostitution in de country. When you take away people’s hope for survival in this economy, what do you expect to go and do? Not sell their bodies? Not sell crack??
What hell food safety……its all protecting those have bought booths inside of the stadium
So what?
And what’s wrong with that.. they should all get proper permits to handle food. If you want to be a vendor at the event – get a permit… and do it LEGALLY.
can’t have it one way and not the other.
They have to think about the image they are trying to show the world… we have visitors and we shoudl be organised
I am in support of the no vending Zone. We are hosting and international Cricket game, people are flying from all over into Dominica we need to have standard set. I think we should have a area reserve as food village for the vendors.
Healthy and safty issues are of concerns during such activities . The authority have a duty of care for all patrons safty.
Its time Dominica implement health and safty laws.
We need to manage large crowd in enclosed areas incase of of major incidents or disaster .
Well said!
So because foreigners are comining we should have a first class health system for them and when they are gone, the locals must get a 2nd class treatment? This is what is known in socialogy as self-contempt. After 400 years of slavery they mental chains still continue.
But realist, nobody is forced to eat from a grubby roadside stand. If people would not frequent those vendors they would soon cease to exist. I certainly would not get my food from there but I agree with you that the highest standard should be applied for all at all times. That is real progress.
i glad all u will stay hungry under that government.
Dominicans not seein’ is one set of people that have
weh weh weh weh weh …my parl rep you duh tired make us suffer… thats just for the vendors in the stadium to maximize profits… you means to tell me not even a bakes and chicken my mother man can sell down at the end of hillsborough street.. weh weh weh weh weh
Interesting
That good for you all the poor will never have or sell go the to the big restaurant to give them money few shall eat not all. Remember Creole in the park last year what happened.
What are the standards re food storage temperatures? I would be very concerned about eating food that is left for any period of time at our typical ambient temperatures.
more for the have’s less for the have not’s..
King James Bible Mathew 13:12
“For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.”
Translation: Those who have, more shall be given to them: those who have not, the little that they have shall be taken away from them.
There is a time and place for everything.