Tam boon in action

Editor;

The Pollution Solution Group would like to thank 57 year young Madam Sit. She can be seen early in the morning, cleaning Jomtien Beach at Soi 6 and Soi 7, with a smile. She removes left behind plastic, styrofoam, bottle-caps, pointed bar-b-que sticks, cigarette-butts, camera-batteries and she also rakes the area, so it is a safe, clean, nice looking place for beach-goers, with or without children to spend a fun filled day.

She also has a few beach mats, if you don’t have one.

We here at TPSG salute Madam Sit and wish there were more like her. She makes our job much easier.
KOTO

Tribute to Motherhood

Editor;

If I could choose any mother anywhere, my very own inspirational fave model will always rank as my first dear love, foremost true friend and best enemy, feisty misunderstandings quickly forgiven. Mom taught me how to retie my tangled shoelaces, to floss my swollen gums, to ride my fire-engine red Schwin bike, to weather every storm by calming thunderous zigzag fears and to hopscotch strut with prideful dignity.

All mothers are full-time working mothers whose salaries are paid with unconditional love for their wards, even when they least deserve to be loved. Just as deep-rooted trees need water and sunshine to survive, by nature mothers help nurture their offspring to grow, flourish, prosper, uplift spirits and reach great heights. Grateful that I have been entrusted with hopes, dreams and aspirations to live my own life and sow the fertile seedpods for future generations, my mother’s now absent presence still shows through every emotional feeling - joy, sorrow, frustration, helplessness, excitement - never forgetting how mom’s always generous kindness put my comfort and happiness before anything else. Nothing on our soiled earth can separate long established kindred bonds - not time, not distance, not space, not even death.
Dr. Charles Frederickson

Jet ski scammers and City Hall

Editor;

Thanks for the honest reporting of the last meeting at City Hall regarding the jet ski scammers.

I remember when I was having problems with the planning department at Kensington Town Hall, London, the architect I was employing told me not to get shirty with them as I would get nowhere. ‘If they had any intelligence they would be working in private practice, not for a Town Hall,’ he said. ‘They have to be humoured and treated gently taking into account they are basically idiots.’

Pattaya’s City Hall response to curbing the jet ski scammers seriously damaging Pattaya’s already seriously dented image reminds me very much of the architect’s remarks.

It has been reported that some jet ski scammers can earn up to 300,000 baht a week, so probably a little of that is spread around to the powers that be to keep them in business. The bull about, ‘There are no laws covering jet ski operators’ is just that. Why can’t City Hall ban and fine any jet ski operators who scam tourists and move police who aid and abet them to inactive post in Outer Mongolia or a prison here in wonderful Thailand? As your article points out, the scam has been going on for years, time to do something positive about it City Hall instead of the usual beating around the bush!
Best wishes to your readers,
RW

Tam boon in action

Tribute to Motherhood

Jet ski scammers and City Hall