NCPO reaffirms crackdown on ‘corrupt’ beach vendors

PATTAYA:--In case beach chair and umbrella vendors didn’t hear them the first time, the military reaffirmed it is ending the monopoly corrupt local politicians and “influential” families have had on large swaths of Pattaya beaches for decades.

 

Maj. Gen. Popanan Lueng­panuwat, head of the National Council for Peace and Order in Banglamung, told 200 vendors at an Aug. 22 meeting with police and local officials that they have a limited, government-set term during which they can operate. Once that term is over, so are they.

 

Popanan, also an appointee to the Pattaya City Council, directed most of his comments to vendors operating on Wong Amat, Koh Larn, Cozy and Pratamnak beaches, who have lagged in complying with new military policies imposed on Pattaya and Jomtien beaches.

 

Under the new regulations, operators are limited to renting only one 9-by-7-meter plot, forbidden from transferring their franchise to children and relatives, subjected to bidding for their franchise every year, required to put out chairs only on request, and barred from cooking on the beach.

 

The operators also were told flatly that tourists aren’t required to use their chairs and can sit on blankets or mats anywhere they want on the beach, even in front of the rental chairs. Any vendor caught chasing away non-customers – as several got caught on video doing in recent years – will face stern action, Popanan vowed.

 

Read more:http://www.pattayamail.com/news/ncpo-reaffirms-crackdown-corrupt-beach-vendors-184877

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2017-09-01

Good job,

 keep it up boys. 

 

14 minutes ago, stanleycoin said:

Good job,

 keep it up boys. 

 

I don't know about that, I don't drink anymore, but when I did I appreciated the beach vendors who brought a cold beer to me while laid on my sunbed 

20 minutes ago, Dave67 said:

I don't know about that, I don't drink anymore, but when I did I appreciated the beach vendors who brought a cold beer to me while laid on my sunbed 

There's absolutely nothing in the full article that states you can not still get a beer while laying on a sunbed...

1 hour ago, Dave67 said:

I don't know about that, I don't drink anymore, but when I did I appreciated the beach vendors who brought a cold beer to me while laid on my sunbed 

I suggest you read the article before posting 

36 minutes ago, stanleycoin said:

I suggest you read the article before posting 

Agreed, they're not cracking down on all vendors pestering people then?

4 hours ago, Dave67 said:

I don't know about that, I don't drink anymore, but when I did I appreciated the beach vendors who brought a cold beer to me while laid on my sunbed 

You can still get a cold beer, unless that is classed as, "Cooking on the beach".

They can crackdown on anything they want, as far as I'm concerned.  I used to like going to the beach for a swim and the occasional beer, but haven't been for a long time.  I'm not too fussed about swimming in a cess pit, and I can sit in the garden and have a cold beer at home, straight from the fridge.

Several posts have been removed, if you want to fight please go somewhere else and do it or risk getting a posting holiday, thank you.

50 minutes ago, Moti24 said:

You can still get a cold beer, unless that is classed as, "Cooking on the beach".

Nice one 

On 01/09/2017 at 3:25 PM, hyku1147 said:

The thin edge of the wedge. What next?

Crack down on police extortion of bar owners?

God that's going to hurt some people's pride, especially if it enforced.

 

Good and double good.

Ohh for the days of those huge thatched unbrellas that were across Pattaya beach......were there individual concessions back then ??  I genuinely cant remember those days were a bit of a blur !

No hope of the Jet Ski scammers getting hoofed then...