I READ, with increasing bewilderment, the series of reports on the saga of the dormitory to house foreign workers in Serangoon Gardens. The fair reporting and neutral stance of The Straits Times on this controversial issue is laudable.
Good idea Dr. Lam, chartered a few buses and bring them for a nite tour, preferably to a few site to observe how these foreign workers live and behave. Seeing is believing.
Good idea Dr. Lam, how about having the same for Geylang residents. We welcome our MPs and Grassroots of Jalan Besar GRC to tour the streets in the mornings and nights.
Residents at Geylang have to avoid or otherwise defend themselve from the environment pollution, vices and noise from FWs, immigrants as well as the 'social visitors'.
Dr Lam please la do not talk cock. Balestier is infested with vices,gambling dens and gangsters since the early 70s. I live at Ava Towers since Aug 93. Foreign workers and the crowds at the nearby cinema really pose a security and social problem. Let these workers live at your place and see for yourself la.
Please lead by example. Tell them to site a 1500-foreign worker dormitory at my MP or minister's door steps first.
recessions and financial difficulty - the union should be looking after the workers and telling bosses to cut their pay and profits instead of asking workers to sacrifice and be prepared to be retrenched in bad times. During rosy times - they laugh all the way to the bank and reward themselves.
singaporeans are generally racial people. serangoon gardens residents are racially motivated zealots. only because of race background they are opposing foreign workers. they dont wantr indian, bangaldesh and pakistan workers staying nearby as they feel these workers are foul smelling, bad mannered and no personal hygiene.
I am puzzled that Dr Edmund Lam would use Balestier as an example. I have been there, and I am not impressed with that place at all. I have been to a flat near that place. It was so dirty. On top of that, due to the traffic there, the noise and dust pollution is pretty bad (by Singaporean standard).
October 11, 2008 Saturday, 01:15 AM
