Slap litterbugs with harsher penalties, why liddat? horrible!

[navyseals]

Slap litterbugs with harsher penalties, say HDB residents
But first, do more to nab culprits who are rarely caught and punished now

Published on May 17, 2013

Toa Payoh resident Tiou Cheow Tee said her clothes had holes caused by cigarette butts, and thinks fines should be heavier. -- ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG

By Lim Yi Han

RESIDENTS of Housing Board estates agree with a minister's assessment that high-rise littering persists because litterbugs are rarely caught and punished.

To do so, there need to be more enforcement officers on the ground and permanently-installed surveillance cameras, residents told The Straits Times.

Heavier penalties such as jail time should also be put in place, but the first step to improving the situation would be to nab more culprits, they added.

Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan told Parliament on Monday that penalties need to be "significantly raised", and there should be a more effective way of identifying the culprits.

 

[hungryboi]

Ho seh liao. Litter bugs better beware and stop their acts.

 

[crystal_tiong]

they should be jailed! my car kenna twice and caused dents .... they threw things like glass bottles and leftover food.

 

[singham]

littering is bad!

but to enforce law on litterbugs is similar to canning you for not doing homework.

life in s'pore is stressed enough, don't have to keep on enforcing law on this and that minor offence.

the ministars probably won't understand what sinkie peasants are going thru in their daily lives. (apparently, i just lent some money to a friend in his forties who is starving himself, viet wife and new born baby, but cos' of face value, he is reluctant to seek help).

he ought to interact more with his residents and not his cronies.

 

[singham]

if you think i talk sense, can up my points...:o