{"id":151,"date":"2008-03-15T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T21:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-03-15T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T22:03:18","slug":"reggae-sauce-man-faces-heat-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/15\/reggae-sauce-man-faces-heat-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggae Sauce man faces heat in court"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Diana Pilkington<\/a> @ Guardian UK<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

The singing star who created Reggae Reggae Sauce was caught in a pickle last week when he appeared in court accused of breaching environment laws.<\/p>\n

\"Levi<\/a>Levi Roots, whose spicy recipe wowed judges on TV’s Dragon’s Den, is also the owner and manager of the Papine Jerk Centre in Lavender Road, Battersea.<\/p>\n

In a bid to prevent flytipping, the law requires businesses to keep records showing how they dispose of trade waste.<\/p>\n

But when a litter inspector visited the restaurant last July, there were no records to show that its waste had been lawfully collected.<\/p>\n

Further attempts to see the records failed, and Mr Roots was summonsed to appear at South Western Magistrates’ Court.<\/p>\n

On March 6, he pleaded guilty to being unable to produce any waste records between July 2006 and July 2007.He was fined \u00a3350 and ordered to pay the council’s prosecution costs of \u00a3153.Wandsworth Council’s environment spokesman Councillor Malcolm Grimston said: “Businesses need to wake up to the fact that they have a legal responsibility when it comes to dealing with their waste and our flytip investigators are there to make sure they fulfil these. Businesses that don’t could suffer the same fate as Mr Roots and end up in court.”<\/p>\n

click below to hear Levi’s Reggae Reggae Sauce song<\/strong>
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