SINGAPORE \u2013 More cleaners have been deployed to Tampines after a newly appointed contractor failed to keep parts of the estate clean due to a lack of workers.<\/p>\n
The town council will impose liquidated damages on the contractor \u2013 Ban Chuan Trading and Engineering \u2013 for these lapses, said town council chairman Baey Yam Keng on May 8.<\/p>\n
Mr Baey is also Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth, and for Transport.<\/p>\n
On April 1, Ban Chuan took over cleaning contracts for three out of five divisions in Tampines GRC \u2013 Tampines Boulevard, Tampines Central and Tampines North.<\/p>\n
Residents told The Straits Times that bins and bulky items subsequently took longer than usual to be cleared.<\/p>\n A mattress left at a void deck in Tampines Boulevard on May 5.<\/p>\n ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n One resident in Tampines Boulevard, Mr B. Ram Nangina, 63, said items such as cartons and small furniture were left near the letterbox on several occasions in April.<\/p>\n Ms Lena Cheng, 48, who lives in the same estate, also saw canned drinks left on the floor of her void deck on several occasions.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the cleaners are doing their job; it\u2019s just that there are people who dump their litter on the floor,\u201d the housewife said.<\/p>\n A TikTok post on April 23 showed overflowing bins in the estate, with canned drinks, bottles, cardboard boxes and clothes also strewn around the void deck.<\/p>\n<\/picture><\/div>