ST JAMES, Jamaica — The vendor caught on video peeing in a bottle just outside the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay last year has been fined $300,000.

Denese Adams, who sold yam and other produce on the outskirts of the market, pleaded guilty to four charges when she appeared before Judge Kaysha Grant Pryce in the St James Parish Court on Monday.

Adams was fined $100,000 or 10 days in jail for unlawfully operating a food handling business without a permit. She was also fined $100,000 or 10 days in jail for unlawfully failing to apply for a food handler’s permit before being employed in a food handling business.

The vendor was also slapped with a $100,000 fine for unlawful urination and storage of urine in a motor vehicle used to transport and store food and without washing her hands afterwards.

She was admonished and discharged for the fourth charge which was unlawfully offering for sale food that was exposed to contamination and in contact with human waste (urine).

During her first court appearance in September of last year, Adams entered a not guilty plea to the charges brought by the St James Health Department which said her behaviour was in breach of the Public Health (Food Handling) Regulations 1998 (Revised 2000).

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In a video that went viral, Adams was seen urinating in a vehicle and storing the urine in a bottle inside it.

In her defence, she told the St James Health Department that she had issues with her knees that made movement difficult for her.

Adams’ case came on the heels of unsanitary practices by crab vendor Alice Waugh who was caught on video defecating in a bucket inside her stall at Crab Circle and a clampdown on Boston Jerk in Portland after what health officials described as months of trying to get operators to address shortcomings. Waugh is no longer allowed to sell at Crab Circle and Boston Jerk has since reopened.

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