26 March 2014
NEA-2014-03-012760
Dear Caveman,
APPEAL FOR WITHDRAWAL OF INTENDED SUMMARY ACTION FOR MOSQUITO BREEDING OFFENCE
I refer to your appeal dated 13 March 2014 on the above-mentioned subject.
Our officers inspected your home and others in the neighbourhood on 8 January 2014 because of reported dengue cases in your estate. The purpose of the inspections is to remove mosquito breeding sources to prevent more dengue cases from arising. During the inspection, our officers found Aedes mosquitoes breeding in an inverted recycle bin outside your premises.
The Public Waste Collector (PWC) has previously distributed recycling bins to all premises in your neighbourhood at the start of the PWC contract. Thereafter, the responsibility of the bins’ maintenance comes under the residents who are issued with these bins. As such, residents are to ensure that the bins are kept free of mosquito breeding.
We have considered your appeal but are unable to withdraw the intended enforcement action for the mosquito breeding offence.
The Notice To Attend Court (NTAC), with an offer to compound this offence, will be served to you. Notwithstanding the enforcement action, please ensure that the conditions of the premises are not favourable to the propagation and harbouring of vectors at all times.
Please contact Ms N of our North East Regional Office at 6554 5733 between 2pm and 5pm on weekdays should you require further clarification. Alternatively, you can call the NEA Contact Centre at 1800 2255 632 or email to Contact_NEA@nea.gov.sg.
Yours sincerely,
S P
for Director
Environmental Health DepartmentDear Sir
It seems you that you guys want to play around with your jobs and not interested to investigate any further.
The whole of Singapore will know of this within few days/hours how incompetent our NEA has become since you sign off at the director level.
I am a law abiding 60 year old jobless citizen since my return from China in 2008. I have the time and resources to help bring about lesser mosquitoes environment in Singapore yet you top civil servants don’t bother even to listen.
Dear Sir,
Subject : Your men inverting rubbish dump at my premises
Your attention is drawn to the letter from NEA to me that mosquito was found breeding at the inverted rubbish bin outside my house.
Please note that your refuse collection team sometimes invert dustbin after they have extracted the refuse. To NEA the inverting of bins can breed mosquito at the handle part as water can collect on it for which I was not aware of it. Please inform your team to put back bins vertically after extracting the refuse. As a residents we cannot be 365 days looking after the defective bins as we can be overseas too. I suggest you drill holes at the handles if your men wants to invert it for reasons known to them so as to allow water to flow out to the ground during rainy days.
Thank you.
Subject: Nero/ALJ/14/140 Mosquito breeding
From: Caveman
Ref your letter 10 Mar 2014.
I did received the notification slip that described an overturned dustbin outside my house was breeding mosquito. I have SMS to that notification slip on the same day to a number stated on the slip a Malay name officer, that Semb Corp rubbish collection team is the one that over turn the dustbin randomly and as such if it breeds mosquitoes I have to return all the dustbins back to Semb Corp and get my money refunded as the design of it is wrong as I should not collect water when inverted.
Subsequently, before cny another Chinese man and after cny two more visits by nea officials was sent to inspect our premises and has no complaints.
This is a long forgotten matter what is the purpose of bringing up this matter. However, if you want to take enforcement action it will be passed on to Semb Corp as they are the ones handling the dustbins, which ones is mine or my neighbours I don’t know. I sometimes go overseas how I am to be responsible for the overturned rubbish bins.
Thank you.
Please note I also made a telephone call to your office and placed my mobile number with your reception today 4.30
Profile of Caveman
PS: Caveman says that he’s willing to be interviewed and he’ll stand by what he said.
Gintai
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