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April 2, 2010 by admin01
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/04/02/pub-water-festival-is-similar-to-charity-car-wash-events-and-does-not-require-its-prior-approval
Written by Our Correspondent
The Public Utilities Board (PUB) has replied to an email query from a netizen about a “Water Festival” organized by Bukit Batok grassroots organizations using taxpayers’ monies to welcome the New Year for the Thai, Burmese, Laotian and Cambodians living in Singapore:
[Snapshot of website of Bukit Batok grassroots organizations, 21 March 2010]
A netizen Kojakbt has since written to several government agencies including the Attorney-General Chambers and the Singapore Police Force questioning the legality of organizing such an event.
Under the Public Utilities Act (CAP 261) 50(b), any person who wastes water “shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.”
According to an unverified rumor circulating in cyberspace, a similar “Water Festival” held in the 1980s by a group of Thai workers in the Boon Lay area was stopped by the police for wasting water under the Public Utilities Act.
Both the AGC and Singapore Police had refused to comment on the matter and “directed” Kojakbt to PUB instead.
A staff from PUB’s Water Supply Department has replied saying that “water splashing activity” like the “Water Festival” is similar to activities such as charity car wash events which do not require approval from PUB.
She added that PUB have since “advised” the organizer that “no hoses or pails of water shall be used for the event and to ensure that water is used frugally.”
The event has sparked a massive outcry in cyberspace with many netizens lampooning Bukit Batok grassroots organizations for wasting precious public resources and prompting one Singaporean to write in to the Straits Times Forum questioning the discrepancies in messages sent to the people.
It has since been “scaled” down to using “water pistols” without the “splashing”:
[Snapshot of website of Bukit Batok grassroots organizations, 31 March 2010]
The funds for the organizing the “Water Festival” is likely to come from the mega $10 million Community Integration Fund unveiled by the pro-foreigner PAP last year to make the foreigners feel welcomed and accepted in Singapore.
When asked by a netizen on the objective of the “Water Festival”, Senior Minister of State for National Development Ms Grace Fu said that the it is a way of Singaporeans showing their “respect” to foreigners.
In other countries, foreigners are expected to integrate into local society. Not only is it the other way round in Singapore, Singaporeans are expected to “bend over” to show our “respect” to foreigners under the constant exhortation of the PAP, or rather FAP (Foreigner Action Party).
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April 2, 2010 by admin01
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/04/02/pub-water-festival-is-similar-to-charity-car-wash-events-and-does-not-require-its-prior-approval
Written by Our Correspondent
The Public Utilities Board (PUB) has replied to an email query from a netizen about a “Water Festival” organized by Bukit Batok grassroots organizations using taxpayers’ monies to welcome the New Year for the Thai, Burmese, Laotian and Cambodians living in Singapore:
[Snapshot of website of Bukit Batok grassroots organizations, 21 March 2010]
A netizen Kojakbt has since written to several government agencies including the Attorney-General Chambers and the Singapore Police Force questioning the legality of organizing such an event.
Under the Public Utilities Act (CAP 261) 50(b), any person who wastes water “shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.”
According to an unverified rumor circulating in cyberspace, a similar “Water Festival” held in the 1980s by a group of Thai workers in the Boon Lay area was stopped by the police for wasting water under the Public Utilities Act.
Both the AGC and Singapore Police had refused to comment on the matter and “directed” Kojakbt to PUB instead.
A staff from PUB’s Water Supply Department has replied saying that “water splashing activity” like the “Water Festival” is similar to activities such as charity car wash events which do not require approval from PUB.
She added that PUB have since “advised” the organizer that “no hoses or pails of water shall be used for the event and to ensure that water is used frugally.”
The event has sparked a massive outcry in cyberspace with many netizens lampooning Bukit Batok grassroots organizations for wasting precious public resources and prompting one Singaporean to write in to the Straits Times Forum questioning the discrepancies in messages sent to the people.
It has since been “scaled” down to using “water pistols” without the “splashing”:
[Snapshot of website of Bukit Batok grassroots organizations, 31 March 2010]
The funds for the organizing the “Water Festival” is likely to come from the mega $10 million Community Integration Fund unveiled by the pro-foreigner PAP last year to make the foreigners feel welcomed and accepted in Singapore.
When asked by a netizen on the objective of the “Water Festival”, Senior Minister of State for National Development Ms Grace Fu said that the it is a way of Singaporeans showing their “respect” to foreigners.
In other countries, foreigners are expected to integrate into local society. Not only is it the other way round in Singapore, Singaporeans are expected to “bend over” to show our “respect” to foreigners under the constant exhortation of the PAP, or rather FAP (Foreigner Action Party).
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