{"id":88125,"date":"2015-02-03T17:45:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=88125"},"modified":"2015-02-03T17:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:48:23","slug":"dumsor-our-cold-store-businesses-are-collapsing-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=88125","title":{"rendered":"Dumsor: &#8216;Our cold store businesses are collapsing&#8217; &#8211; Traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold store owners at the Tema Harbour have said the unpredictable and unreliable power supply in the country is gradually grinding their businesses to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;KUMFf7eRFc966OwzsbFRjs4Vx71rzeNc&#8221;]They told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> alternative power sources cannot power the cold stores at the required temperature.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the situation is badly affecting their business as cartons of fish are left to go bad and discarded on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>A distraught Vida Ackom; a cold store owner at Tema told <strong>Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Elvis Washington that \u201cour fish are all going bad and this is becoming very costly to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another owner who gave her name as Ama Bea corroborated Vida Ackom\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I talk to you, our lights are off now. Anytime it goes off, it is restored after three or four days,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The power crisis has worsened over the past few days with consumers enduring 24 hours of power cuts and 12 hours of power.<\/p>\n<p>This has compelled a group of Concerned Ghanaians to organize a demonstration on Independence Day, 6th\u00a0March against the worsening situation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cold-store.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88131\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cold-store.jpg\" alt=\"cold store\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cold-store-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88130\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cold-store-6.jpg\" alt=\"cold store (6)\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cold-store-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88129\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cold-store-5.jpg\" alt=\"cold store (5)\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cold-store-4.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cold-store-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88127\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cold-store-3.jpg\" alt=\"cold store (3)\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Eugenia Tenkorang\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold store owners at the Tema Harbour have said the unpredictable and unreliable power supply in the country is gradually grinding their businesses to a halt. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;KUMFf7eRFc966OwzsbFRjs4Vx71rzeNc&#8221;]They told Citi News alternative power sources cannot power the cold stores at the required temperature. According to them, the situation is badly affecting their business as cartons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,21,4],"class_list":["post-88125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}