NEA is a bunch of morons wasting taxpayers money

[SingaporeNINJA]

Instead of checking all the construction sites and covered drains for mosquitoes breeding, they waste taxpayers money by sending their army of inspectors to knock on every households to inspect the kitchens.

Why don't they use their common sense that if the mosquitoes can breed in a household's kitchens, then the household must really have very think skin, since the mosquitoes will suck the blood of the household members first and they will know.

It's the common areas in the swamps, dumping grounds, construction sites, forested areas, gardens, covered drains that are mosquito breeding grounds and not in the residents' homes.

NEA is purposely wasting taxpayers' money and attempting to put the blame of mosquito breeding squarely on the households instead of seriously finding the root causes of mosquito breeding in those dengue hot-spots.

 

[Leongsam]

The NEA is a responsible and dedicated organisation that does thorough checks and that includes construction sites.

http://app2.nea.gov.sg/resources_mosquitoctrl_con.aspx

Construction Sites

Weekly
Check for mosquito breeding in the following places :-
* Discarded receptacles and building wastes in the worksite, bangsal area and site
offices.
* Building materials, canvas sheets, equipment and machinery.
* Puddles on the ground
* Puddles on the concrete floors of all upper levels.
* Water storage drums, tanks and containers.
* Bulk waste containers
* Trenches
* Lift wells
* Drains or channels temporarily constructed to drain off water
* Any other water-bearing receptacles


You should do just a couple of minutes of research before you shoot your mouth off with half truths or downright lies trying to smear the good name of responsible government departments.

 

[Leongsam]

Mosquito breeding at construction sites on the rise

By Ng Lian Cheong | Posted: 17 October 2010 1939 hrs


SINGAPORE: The number of construction sites found breeding mosquitoes has been rising over the years, despite a slight dip in 2009.

The number of mosquito breeding sites identified so far this year is 1,004, compared with 679 sites in 2007 and 853 in 2009.

This year, the National Environment Agency (NEA) conducted more inspections, with seven Stop Work Orders issued so far against contractors whose sites were found breeding mosquitoes.

As of 10 August, M/s China Construction (South Pacific) Development Co Pte Ltd, M/s Kay Lim Construction & Trading Pte Ltd, M/s CES Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd were the main offenders, with total fines issued against the contractors ranging from S$41,000 to S$124,000.

The NEA said contractors should be more pro-active in controlling mosquito breeding within their sites.

"We advise construction site operators to set up housekeeping teams in their respective sites to do their daily checks for housekeeping as well as for stagnant water. We require them to oil large bodies of stagnant water to prevent mosquito breeding and to remove water bearing receptacles," said Tan Ji Choong, Head of Operations at the NEA.


-CNA/ac

 

[Leongsam]

If you think home owners exercise care and concern over the mosquito menace, well think again.


More homes, construction sites found breeding mosquitoes

By Ng Lian Cheong | Posted: 01 November 2010 2139 hrs

SINGAPORE : More homes and construction areas in Singapore have been found with mosquito breeding sites.

In the first nine months of this year alone, 2,725 more homes were found breeding mosquitoes - an increase of 44 per cent over the same period last year.

The National Environment Agency (NEA) said breeding sites were also detected at 52 construction sites out of the 348 inspected in the last two weeks.

This makes up nearly 15 per cent of the inspected sites - a figure that is higher than the 10 per cent for the whole of last year.

To prevent the problem from worsening, NEA said it conducted a two-week intensive check between September and October on major construction sites.

The breeding habitats detected included ground puddles, dismantled roof gutters, and uncompleted drains.

The checks included sites near residential estates.

A total of 100 officers were involved in the island-wide exercise.

- CNA/al

 

[zhihau]

how Dengue clusters thus far? are there any construction sites within a km radius of the known cluster? bunch of morons indeed.

 

[zhihau]

By Ng Lian Cheong | Posted: 17 October 2010 1939 hrs[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]

what use of this piece of outdated news?

 

[Leongsam]

what use of this piece of outdated news?

If you think Sinkies have changed their attitudes in 3 years, you're living in fairy land.

 

[zhihau]

If you think Sinkies have changed their attitudes in 3 years, you're living in fairy land.

waking up is the hardest part, sad to say. the bed is inviting, temperature is cool, under the soft blanket nice and warm. but once you're awake, it's a different story. more folks have woken over the last three years, my friend

 

[Leongsam]

waking up is the hardest part, sad to say. the bed is inviting, temperature is cool, under the soft blanket nice and warm. but once you're awake, it's a different story. more folks have woken over the last three years, my friend

With all those 3rd world scum around, things have probably got a lot worse when it comes to good hygiene.

 

[SuperMod]

waking up is the hardest part, sad to say. the bed is inviting, temperature is cool, under the soft blanket nice and warm. but once you're awake, it's a different story. more folks have woken over the last three years, my friend

[video=youtube;n_3MGNVH8qs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_3MGNVH8qs&sns=em[/video]

 

[SingaporeNINJA]

If NEA is doing their job, we would not be having this dengue issue every time when the weather is rainy, as is the case recently. Instead of intensifying their inspections of open and covered drains, forested areas, construction sites, dumping areas, etc, NEA is trying to push the blame on individual households for breeding mosquitoes.

How many households will be breeding mosquitoes compared to the waste of taxpayer's money to sieve them out? When in a rainy season, mosquito breeding grounds are increased in those outside areas like what I mentioned above, compared to households' kitchens contributing to this increase?

NEA should just intensify their inspections on outside exposed common areas around those areas I described.

Have you tried opening a covered drain before, Leongsam? If you've, you will see that the drains have plenty of stale water puddle areas where mosquitoes can breed and what about those forested areas, where stale water collects after the rain and the sunlight cannot reach it to evaporate the water puddles.

Don't tell me that households' kitchens become breeding grounds because of the raining season? What a load of propaganda filth to attempt to push the blame on households, when the root cause of the increase in mosquito breeding is found in other places and a total waste of taxpayers' money just to push a futile agenda of blaming the households instead of solving the problem seriously.

 

[Leongsam]

Don't tell me that households' kitchens become breeding grounds because of the raining season? What a load of propaganda filth to attempt to push the blame on households, when the root cause of the increase in mosquito breeding is found in other places and a total waste of taxpayers' money just to push a futile agenda of blaming the households instead of solving the problem seriously.

Everybody has to play their part and that includes households.

Your attitude is a typical sinkie response to an issue. You'll try your best to be excluded from any measures needed to tackle a problem so you don't have to do a damned thing.

 

[SuperMod]

If you think Sinkies have changed their attitudes in 3 years, you're living in fairy land.

Other country also have mosquito song

[video=youtube;_I7zEpzFa1g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I7zEpzFa1g&sns=em[/video]

 

[zhihau]

such wonderful folks we have at NEA actually. fogging the Bedok Reservoir area twice weekly at the tracks, Mondays through Fridays. mosquitoes also getting off-days on weekend, ok?

 

[SingaporeNINJA]

Everybody has to play their part and that includes households.

Your attitude is a typical sinkie response to an issue. You'll try your best to be excluded from any measures needed to tackle a problem so you don't have to do a damned thing.

Nonsense. You're engaging in the blame game, which is very sinkie. Blame the sinkie, yeah go ahead, instead of looking at the real problem at hand and finding the best solution while using taxpayers money wisely and efficiently.

You tell me, what are the chances of a household's kitchen contributing to the increase in mosquito breeding, when clearly the mosquitoes breeding grounds are increased due to the raining season and it does not take rocket science to zero in on those outside common areas as the main contributing factor to this increase instead of trying to push forward a propaganda exercise that is wasting taxpayers money and not really solving the problem.

NEA should spend more time, effort and taxpayers money to increase its inspection and eradication exercise at those high risk areas instead of trying to prove that households are the ones contributing to the mosquito breeding. This is common sense.

 

[Sinkie]

It's very easy to blame Sinkie. But is it justified most of the time? Not. :(

 

[wendychan]

there is a construction site next to me... i thought NEA suppose to carry out regular checks on construction sites?
and from the looks of it, maybe they check the front part of the site and not the back
ive just sent an sms to NEA re the water in the drains at the back of the site, because of the debris and stones....
you wonder what they check when they come for inspection

 

[myfoot123]

Instead of checking all the construction sites and covered drains for mosquitoes breeding, they waste taxpayers money by sending their army of inspectors to knock on every households to inspect the kitchens.

Why don't they use their common sense that if the mosquitoes can breed in a household's kitchens, then the household must really have very think skin, since the mosquitoes will suck the blood of the household members first and they will know.

It's the common areas in the swamps, dumping grounds, construction sites, forested areas, gardens, covered drains that are mosquito breeding grounds and not in the residents' homes.

NEA is purposely wasting taxpayers' money and attempting to put the blame of mosquito breeding squarely on the households instead of seriously finding the root causes of mosquito breeding in those dengue hot-spots.

This is what I thought so too, as if the mosquito find it easier to breed inside the closed gutter of our toilet than in the open areas like drain, bogs and nearby construction sites. Singapore open space is so big I believed NEA resources should be maximised but they wasted them checking our household. It was like using axe to kill ants.

 

[Sirius]

This is what I thought so too, as if the mosquito find it easier to breed inside the closed gutter of our toilet than in the open areas like drain, bogs and nearby construction sites. Singapore open space is so big I believed NEA resources should be maximised but they wasted them checking our household. It was like using axe to kill ants.

Exactly.

NEA is barking up the wrong tree and it defies logic. The only explanation for such deflection by NEA can be summarized below:

1. NEA thinks it is an authority in mass education of the population when it is not.

2. NEA is going after the households because it is more cushy and away from the dirt and sun.

3. NEA can show it's doing their job and can yaya their NEA badge to tekan the households while leaving the work of mosquito eradication not done.

4. NEA is powerless against National Park, PWD, LTA, SLA, etc, since they're ka ki lang and so NEA thinks that households an easier target, since it looks like easier to put the blame on households than getting their hands messy to conduct stricter inspections on their own ka ki lang.

Like SARS, when MOH cannot find the solution, it puts up a draconian illogical measure and put up a big wayang by limiting the number of visitors to the A&E and two to the ward, as if the visitors were the ones who will infect the patients, when it was their doctors and nurses that did not wear masks and passed dirty infected documents among themselves that caused those SARS deaths. Now, the hospitals are like a prison and patients are like prisoners, where visitations are constrained and nurses and doctors behave like prison wardens.

 

[SingaporeNINJA]

there is a construction site next to me... i thought NEA suppose to carry out regular checks on construction sites?
and from the looks of it, maybe they check the front part of the site and not the back
ive just sent an sms to NEA re the water in the drains at the back of the site, because of the debris and stones....
you wonder what they check when they come for inspection

Don't disturb NEA. These morons are busy visiting residents to educate them about pouring unused water out of pails and using caps on pole sockets and cleaning the roof gutters. The construction sites can wait. It's more important to educate the households instead of doing the REAL WORK of mosquito ERADICATION.