Tray return - PAP government loses battle, imposes martial law

[LITTLEREDDOT]

PAP loses the ideological war, resorts to imposing martial law.
Need to justify the amount spent on tray return facilities.
Yet another law (with fine) in Sinkapore.

Mandatory for diners to return trays and clear table litter from June 1​

Adeline Tan

May 14, 2021

SINGAPORE - It will be mandatory for diners to return their trays and clear their table litter from June 1, the National Environment Agency said on Friday (May 14).
Table litter include leaving litter such as used tissues and wet wipes, straws, canned drinks, plastic bottles, and food remnants left behind after dining.
To help diners adjust, there will be a three-month advisory period from June 1 to Aug 31, during which diners will be advised to follow the rules and no enforcement action will be taken.
From Sept 1, enforcement will be taken against those who do not clean up after themselves at hawker centres.
First-time offenders will be given a written warning. Subsequent offenders may face composition or court fines, which can go up to $2,000 for the first conviction.
The Singapore Food Agency will also work with NEA to roll out enforcement progressively at coffeshops and food courts in the fourth quarter of this year.

NEA said the move, which takes amid the public health crisis that Singapore is facing, comes after years of extensive educational efforts to change behaviour and mindsets of diners at public places.
NEA's deputy chief executive of public health and director-general of public health Chew Ming Fai said: "We've been talking about these clean tables since 2013, and there's been a lot of education effort that has been put out over the years."
One example is the Clean Tables Campaign launched in February this year to remind diners to step up the cleanliness of public dining places, such as not leaving food remnants behind after eating and clearing their dirty crockery.
Mr Chew said: "Following up from that exercise, we've seen a small uptick in terms of tray return rates from 33 to 35 per cent, but unfortunately I don't think that is significant enough."
To complement enforcement, NEA will also be setting up more tray return infrastructure across the hawker centres.
Currently, there are about 900 tray return racks installed across 111 hawker centres.

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

it's about time
haaaa

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

The hottest job in town.
Don't say the PAP government never creates new jobs for Sinkies.
(But the high-paying, professional jobs are reserved for foreign talents.)

 

[laksaboy]

Govt coffers are empty, frivolous fines are necessary.

 

[Leongsam]

This is the only way to govern a chink society because chinks are genetically disgusting.

 

[Leongsam]

pri.org

Lee Kuan Yew is dead. Here are 7 of his most provocative quotes​

4-5 minutes

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BANGKOK, Thailand — He was no Mandela or Gandhi. But Lee Kuan Yew, dead at 91, will be remembered for lifting millions out of poverty — even if that meant micromanaging their lives.

Most autocrats drive their nations into the ground. Lee did the opposite. For three decades as Singapore’s prime minister, starting in 1959, he oversaw one of the most successful social engineering feats in human history.

Lee turned a chaotic and malaria-ridden harbor in Southeast Asia into a gleaming city state where the per capita GDP exceeds that in the US.

He accomplished this through his signature style of authoritarianism lite. His government is notorious for banning chewing gum — one of many rules designed to keep Singapore from becoming like Beijing, where spitting and littering is rampant.

Singapore is an anomaly. It’s a metropolis dominated by ethnic Chinese who all speak English. Its sinks pump clean water and the cops don’t take bribes — no minor feat in Southeast Asia.

Much of this success is credited to Lee’s vision and policies. But in return for prosperity, its citizens have had to submit to a government that, despite occasional elections, functions as one-party state with little tolerance of dissent.

Here are some of Lee’s more provocative quotes:

On giving the masses political power:​

“When people say, ‘Oh, ask the people!’, it’s childish rubbish ... They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequences of his choice when he answers a questions viscerally on language, culture and religion? ... we would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate.”
— Quoted in Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas, 1998

On valuing prosperity over democracy:​

“You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy ... But have you got a civilized life to lead? People want economic development first and foremost. The leaders may talk something else. You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.”
— Lee Kuan Yew, The Man and His Ideas, 1997

On opinion polls:​

“I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.”
— The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1997

On his adversaries and critics:​

“Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul-de-sac ... If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.”
— Quoted in Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas, 1998

On meddling in citizens’ private lives:​

“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn’t be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters – who your neighbor is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.” — Speaking to Straits Times newspaper, 1987

On Muslims:​

“I think we were progressing very nicely until the surge of Islam came. And if you asked me for my observations, the other communities have easier integration — friends, inter-marriages and so on — than Muslims ... I would say, today, we can integrate all religions and races except Islam.” (Lee later retracted this comment.)
— Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going, 2011

On media freedom:​

“We allow American journalists in Singapore in order to report Singapore to their fellow countrymen ... But we cannot allow them to assume a role in Singapore that the American media play in America. That of invigilator, adversary and inquisitor of the administration.”
— Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1988

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

This is the only way to govern a chink society because chinks are genetically disgusting.

yep, absolutely correct

 

[zhihau]

cook and eat at home bo daichee!

 

[laksaboy]

cook and eat at home bo daichee!

Or takeaway from hawker centres.

 

[bobby]

 

[Cottonmouth]

Will there be law enforcers in every aisle of hawker centres to make sure sinkies return their trays?

 

[batman1]

What martial law ? Red Dot is already ruled by the military junta.

 

[mojito]

Uncoof sinkies.

 

[batman1]

PAP very clever in distraction techniques.People now talking about covid-19 but PAP come out with this tray return .

 

[zhihau]

PAP very clever in distraction techniques.People now talking about covid-19 but PAP come out with this tray return .

Ivan Lim must be thanking his lucky stars

 

[CPTMiller]

Govt coffers are empty, frivolous fines are necessary.

Sheep must following orders

 

[batman1]

Ivan Lim must be thanking his lucky stars

He's the GM at Keppel Offshore & Marine.

 

[laksaboy]

PAP very clever in distraction techniques.People now talking about covid-19 but PAP come out with this tray return .

Those jiakliaobees at the NEA (who have an agenda against Sinkies eating like pigs and not returning trays since long ago) have deliberately conflated hawker centre hygiene with 'combating Covid'. Go figure.

After having lived on this island for a while, none of this should be surprising anymore.

 

[mahjongking]

why shit times never asked, how come suddenly got so many case?

thats why i always say, FUCK PAP

 

[batman1]

This is the military order. Disobedience will be severely dealt with.