The proliferation of food vendors on city streets is posing major challenges for the Georgetown municipality in its efforts to effectively monitor health and safety standards in the industry, acting Chief Meat and Food Inspector Jagdish Singh told Stabroek Business in a telephone interview earlier this week.
With street vendors offering various types of prepared foods to consumers from makeshift stalls outside schools, beer gardens and various other vantage city points now numbering in their hundreds, the municipality’s limited inspectorate staff cannot, in many cases, offer verifiable health and safety guarantees in respect of the services that they offer, Singh said.
Singh explained that one of the primary problems faced by the municipal inspectorate is associated with the limitations it faces in verifying the conditions under which food is prepared. “Since we are unable to
