Cockroaches Attack at Jurong salon

[MarrickG]

IT started after a few cockroaches suddenly appeared and flew inside her Jurong East hair salon on Friday.

When the owner, 32-year-old Madam Chen, stepped out to take a look, she was shocked and revolted.

An army of cockroaches was streaming out from the rubbish chute next to her back door, reported Lianhe Wanbao.

She said: 'It was disgusting.'

For the next two hours, she claimed she killed more than 1,000 cockroaches, with help from her employee and a newspaper vendor.

Stomped on them

They swept the cockroaches away and stomped on them.

When that proved inadequate, the frustrated vendor bought a can of insecticide from a nearby provision shop.

The cockroaches first appeared at 5pm in Madam Chen's salon at Jurong East Street 24.

She recalled: 'I went to the back door and saw more cockroaches crawling in through a slit in the back door.

'So my employee and I stuffed folded newspaper into the slit to block their entrance.'

Madam Chen told her staff to get rid of the cockroaches in the salon while she went outside to check. That was when she saw the swarm of cockroaches.

She said a similar incident happened about four years ago, but she has no idea why so many cockroaches reappeared.

 

[hillary888]

Looks like Jurong town council will fail their first report? Ranking 'F'.

TOWN councils are set to come under the spotlight every six months from next year, when a report card is put out on how well they are running their HDB housing estates. The likely frequency was disclosed by Senior Minister of State (National Development) Grace Fu on Friday.

She also said that the 16 town councils (TCs) are likely to be assessed in five areas, which will be kept simple and easy to measure.

She was speaking to reporters after holding a discussion with a panel of experts on what should be on the list of criteria, grouped under three categories: cleanliness, maintenance of facilities and financial management.

Her ministry, which oversees public housing, is planning to introduce a Town Council Management Report (TCMR) regularly, to provide a framework for TCs and residents to discuss how they can improve their estates further, if necessary.

Explaining the form of the report, Ms Fu said HDB officials will go round the estate and give the TC grades under each criterion.

The TCs will not be ranked but will be banded, which could be in the form of A, B or C. But no decision on the banding has been made yet.

Ms Fu gave some possible measures. For cleanliness, it could be the number of litter spotted; for maintenance, it could be the number of defects or lift breakdowns; for financial management, it could be how the TCs manage the arrears of residents in service and conservancy charges.

She also said she wants the report to foster closer communication between the town councils and residents so that they can work together to improve the estates.

 

[liketogossip]

Looks like Jurong town council will fail their first report? Ranking 'F'.

doubt they will get tat Ranking. maybe they would even say at least cockroaches better than rats....

 

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[saratogas]

Mediacorp new show, "Fear Factor" Singapore. First test Cockroaches.

 

[limpeh2]

For a moment, I thought they were talking abt kelings.

 

[lewlian88]

seriously, there are really big colony of roaches underneath.
my HDB estate once conducted a major fumigation excercise that caused so many roaches running out from drainage & rubbish chutes.