Ackee
October 27, 2014
Vendor arrested for selling young ackees
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A woman was arrested in the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James earlier today for selling young ackees.
The female, identified as 45-year-old Pauline Powell of Evergreen district, Manchester, has been charged under the Agricultural Produce and the Unlawful Possession of Property Acts.
The police’s Corporate Communications Unit reported that about 1:30 pm, lawmen were on patrol when Powell was seen using a knife to open ackees that were not yet fit for consumption. She was taken into custody and more than 1000 ackee pods seized.
The police are advising the public to be careful when purchasing the fruit as unfit ackees are poisonous.