Phuket Poll: How should Phuket’s lifeguards be provided?

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Phuket Poll: How should Phuket’s lifeguards be provided?

The Phuket News

 

Tourists love Phuket's beaches, but without lifeguards patrolling the sands they stand at risk of the dangerous surf during the southwest monsoon from May through October each year. Photo: Tanyaluk Sakoot / file

 

PHUKET: The fiasco of Phuket’s authorities providing lifeguards at the island’s key beaches has dragged on from last year into 2018, with no end in sight.

 

The saga has taken a series of ridiculous twists and turns since the Phuket Lifeguard Service Co Ltd last year refused to apply for the annual contract offered by the Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation (PPAO, or OrBorJor) in protest of the lack of funds provided.

 

The PPAO’s initial failure to provide lifeguards – a role it took on when launching its 1% room rate tax on all hotel rooms more than a decade ago – forced Governor Norraphat Plodthong to step in on Dec 12 and order that local municipalities and Tambon Administration Organisations (OrBorTor) take on the responsibility of providing lifeguards themselves, for their own beaches.

 

Full story:  https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-poll-how-should-phuket-lifeguards-be-provided-66409.php

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2018-03-20

[ChrisY1]

So obvious that the 1% room tax just never got to be used for Life Savers...tourists drowning is certainly not as important as an new model Benz each year!

Edited March 20, 2018 by ChrisY1

[farcanell]

Well.... firstly sue the PPAO for fraud or .

 

secondly... the contract has been awarded for this year... so sue them for not providing the service per contract.

 

thirdly... go cap in hand and beg the last provider to take the job back on, and pay the appropriate wage

 

or go thai style and mai pen rai it.

 

this fiasco is extreme negligence by government officials... bugger yingluck and the rice scheme... lock these people up for negligence, wanton endangerment of life and giving thailand a bad name

 

im sorry... this is a stupid question... anybody with a functioning brain cell can see that there is a problem with an easy solution... but those that can effect the issue, choose to ignore it, so asking is beyond pointless

[Ulic]

If they really are able to collect a 1% tax on hotel rooms there is plenty of money

to provide year-round lifeguard services. Send in the forensic accountants to see 

who is pilfering the money.

[pattayadgw]

Do the authorities realize just how pathetic this looks to the outside world?? obviously not!!

[beechbum]

5 hours ago, pattayadgw said:

Do the authorities realize just how pathetic this looks to the outside world?? obviously not!!

They simply don't care.

They get their dirty money and and don't give 1 iota about the ramifications of what they're doing or the ripple effect created.

[Jimi007]

The International Surf Lifesaving Association was just in Phuket a few months ago training the locals. They are making it known that they aren’t happy with the current situation in Phuket. Neither I am coming from a beach lifeguard family. Public safety should be more important than a pissing match between government officials!


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