Doors closed

Businesswoman Asha Mirchandani in discussion with Chief Environmental Health Officer Tyrone Applewhaite (4th left) yesterday. (Gercine Carter)

By Yvette Best | Sat, June 02, 2012 - 12:11 AM

MYSTERY SURROUNDS TODAY’S CLOSURE of Furniture Limited following a visit to the Cumberland Street, Bridgetown property by officials from the Environmental Health Department yesterday.

Ministry of Health officials suggested that the store would be closed for environmental reasons.

However, business operator Asha Mirchandani insisted that the store would not be open today as they were rearranging stock and preparing for a massive sale from Monday.

The drama unfolded just after 2 p.m. when a team of environmental health inspectors, led by their chief Tyrone Applewhaite, visited the store which opened in 1969.

Read the full story in today's SATURDAY SUN.

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Posted by Belle Brewster 1 year ago: I went into this particular store twenty five years ago. That was my first and last time. It was smelly, things were just strewn about the place in no particular order and when you looked at the top floor from the outside one could only imagine the number of rats and mice that had found a home. I had spent a total of $19.95 and made it a point never to knowingly spend another cent. So far all has been well. This store needed to be closed many years ago.
I have only visited any of the other establishments in the company of others. On one occasion I had to take my daughter who was 3 yrs at the time, to the bathroom in the one on Bay Street. I literally screamed when I saw it. All I could think was how can people work in these conditions. Stopped in there a few months ago with a friend, it is a disaster waiting to happen and the smell stings the nostrils. Does she keep cats in there? When one enters her stores.

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Posted by Pan Wallie 1 year ago: That closure is years overdue. A health hazard and a fire hazard. The exit remains closed, padlocked and blocked with boxes. God forbid that there is ever a repeat of that fire on Baxters Road, cause many more will perish. It is hard to believe that people are so desperate for jobs that they accept these working conditions, but it's true. Thanks for finally having the balls to do this, Health Inspectors, and please don't be hoodwinked in the process.