{"id":52625,"date":"2014-10-01T06:46:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T06:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=52625"},"modified":"2014-10-01T06:47:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T06:47:37","slug":"ghana-tourism-authority-sanctions-dynasty-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/ghana-tourism-authority-sanctions-dynasty-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Tourism Authority sanctions Dynasty Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has slapped further sanctions on the Dynasty Chinese Restaurant for operating under unhygienic conditions.<\/p>\n
The restaurant, which holds a \u2018grade one\u2019 licence from the GTA, meaning it is among the top restaurants in Ghana, has been asked to renovate its kitchen to acceptable standards before it will be allowed to operate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
That aside, the restaurant will pay between GH\u00a2500 and GH\u00a21,000 as penalty for operating in unhygienic conditions in the wake of the cholera outbreak that has claimed more than 100 lives, with more than 12,000 people hospitalised.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”P3eHzQQTseztEf68W0wvd1QRxs6TkFTN”]The Public Relations Manager of the GTA, Mr Ben Ohene-Ayeh, told the\u00a0Daily Graphic<\/strong>\u00a0that the authority was not impressed by conditions in the kitchen of the restaurant; days after the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) had ordered its closure.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have asked them not to open until they put the place right and then call us for re-inspection. Then we will certify them before they will be allowed to open. Until we are satisfied with conditions in the kitchen, they cannot operate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Closure and issues arising<\/strong><\/p>\n The AMA last Thursday took its fight against cholera to Osu in Accra with the\u00a0closure of the Dynasty Chinese Restaurant<\/a>.<\/p>\n The move was part of a crackdown on unhygienic restaurants, eateries and chops bars in the capital in the wake of the cholera epidemic.<\/p>\n The kitchen had grease and soot accumulated on the heat extractors; the walls were dirty, while a defective gas cylinder there had a stone on top of the regulator, probably to prevent leakage.<\/p>\n Most of the stoves were rusty and appeared to have outlived their usefulness. Cobwebs were all over, while a pungent smell hang around the place.<\/p>\n There was algae around the pipelines and the water tank, while a lorry tyre filled with murky water and what was suspected to be mosquito larvae lay close to the entrance of the kitchen<\/p>\n