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I'm still waiting for final confirmation from our school as to whether the CCSA lot have actually green lite Monday's opening yet.

7 hours ago, BobbyL said:

We're expecting 75% of the students in our Early Years and Primary back next week. We have planned for either Monday 1st or Thursday 4th. 

 

Still no final word from our management about how exactly this will be planned. Seeing as the CCSA have the final say I am guessing the email will probably arrive at 8pm on Friday stating their decision. 

I reckon they stay true to form & refuse permission for the schools to open then rescind that order & give permission about 10 to 8 on Monday morning ???? 

It was reported on the news that they are opening up some beaches next week & if social distancing & boozing rules are obeyed then they will open all beaches although local governors can still keep them closed.

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The Office of Private Education have given the thumbs up but the all powerful CCSA has the final say over all things in Thailand right now & they have not given their blessing yet.

I think it would be an excellent way of testing the school systems before the Thai schools go back in another month.

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I've heard nothing from my kid's school, does anyone have any news?

I heard that the government had asked the big international schools in Bangkok to come up with a H&S plan to include social distancing, hygiene etc with a view to opening in some capacity next week.

It would be a good trial run for the main schools to open in July.

Fingers crossed that they let them open as denying children an education is criminal plus they need peers for social development.

Teachers will have their hands full initially trying to keep the children calm in class as they will be bouncing off the walls with excitement.

The younger ones for sure.

43 minutes ago, Boca said:

Motorists are not zipping anywhere on this road just now. Still closed with all entrances/ exits blocked and signs covered up. I wonder if they confused May with June?  

It might be the famous 31st June that the government have announced, it'll be handy having an extra day more than everyone else in the world

I drove over it this afternoon & it's either closed still or not one single vehicle was on it either for a few miles in either direction.

I was coming off the 331 coming from Silverlakes.

There a place on the 36 just before you hit the 7 if you're driving North.

You'll need to keep your eyes peeled & slow down to spot it.

They have mounds of it & you can by it by weight & shovel in straight into the back of a pickup or it comes bagged up.

It's an orange building & it's a few hundred yards before a Shell station.

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The Ambassadour in NaJomtien is being used as a quarantine base.

4 minutes ago, mikebell said:

I appreciate the map provided by Pattaya46.  One point about it; on the green map where it says Highway no 3 Ban Amphur - that is the exact spot of a BIB Bandit block near the Ambassador.

It sure is.

I wager it will be a busy spot when things open up properly as their coffers will be emptier than a Pattaya hotel right now

It's a walk in clinic & attached to BP hospital.

I went there to get a dressing changed on my hand & they said that a doctor would need to access beforehand with of course associated fees.

I told told them that any clinic in town would just change it as it was the job of a nurse but they insisted that I see a doctor.

I just went home & got the missus to change it.

I won't be going there again even if my head fell off & it needed stitching back on.

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Thats assuming he can pay for a flight if not he's in there for years

This is the point that I was making.

As far as I know Thailand won't pay for his flight & I can't see his government paying so does the fellow deserve life in a Thai jail just for over-staying & being too poor to buy a flight or bribe his way out?

How many stories have we heard of rich Europeans, Americans not to mention local sons of the connected slip away after being arrested for murder, the most heinous of crimes?

7 hours ago, JingerBen said:

Now that they've caught him what are they going to do with him?

Send him back to Cameroon?

When and how?

That also intrigues me.

What will actually happen to this fellow?

They can't just keep him in the chokey forever & a day.

There's no way his embassy will cough up so without rich relatives what is his outlook like?

It's bad enough with the cops driving about after curfew spreading the virus, we don't need others spreading more.

Lock him up til 4am & hope he's got the message.

The missus is as fit as a butcher's dog & so is her mother.

She goes with a local taxi fella who lives up that way & then loads up his pick up truck for the return journey with all sorts of weird foodstuffs not readily available down here.

She has an irrational hatred (maybe it's quite rational considering) hatred of the BiB seeing them as robbers & thieves to a man so does anything to avoid them.

Missus wants to drive up to see her family in Nong Bua Lamphu but is worried about police checkpoints because of the restrictions now in place.

I told her to tell them that she has to visit her mother as she's unwell & old plus only drive outside of curfew times.

I don't know why she's so paranoid but it's doing her head in which has not improved her temper.

Has anyone driven this route recently & able to shed light on how regular the checkpoints actually are & if there actually are any?

I could do with a break from the nagging.

Pattayarentacar up in Pratamnak have a range of e-bikes for hire.

Very handy on those hills up there.

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