"Budget 2014: Changes to law to deal with community disputes being studied - The Straits Times Wednesday, Mar 12, 2014
SINGAPORE - The police may get more teeth to deal with public nuisances in the neighbourhood, with the Government looking into legislative changes to deal with the issue.
Excerpt from Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong's speech:
"A key part of the framework is a Community Dispute Resolution Tribunal to adjudicate difficult cases between neighbours.
The Tribunal will have the powers to mandate mediation, to give parties the chance to communicate and compromise.
The Tribunal can also make judgements and issue orders which will have to be complied with, failing which there will be consequences including prosecution.
So the Tribunal will provide legal recourse for difficult cases, and especially for aggrieved parties.
But I must qualify that the Tribunal should neither be the first recourse nor the main way we resolve our disputes."
Being a civilised first world society, members of the public should be able to live with each other harmoniously and prosperously. When that harmony and peace and prosperity is threatened beyond utmost sincere efforts to achieve, something and someone has to give!
Lessons for me are:
1. when dealing with each other, the Chinese saying of: 'big thing turns into small thing and small thing turn into nothing' is a good practice;
2. the higher level, of course, would be: 'there is nothing that need to even cause tension and unhappiness with each others', especially with rational and emotionally stable people!;
3. when rule 2 and 1 above failed, there must be some intervention where the un-cooperative party will have to pay a price. A price so painful and inconvenient to him or her or them that it is plainly silly for any rational being to insist he or she or they WANT to pay that price. In which case, one can safely say that the person or persons involved need mental medical help!
Maybe this is something that the infamous Everitte Road neighbours yawned for in those terribly traumatic years! NOW it is HERE! NO more devilish neighbor to speak of now! :-)
Excerpt from Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong's speech:
"A key part of the framework is a Community Dispute Resolution Tribunal to adjudicate difficult cases between neighbours.
The Tribunal will have the powers to mandate mediation, to give parties the chance to communicate and compromise.
The Tribunal can also make judgements and issue orders which will have to be complied with, failing which there will be consequences including prosecution.
So the Tribunal will provide legal recourse for difficult cases, and especially for aggrieved parties.
But I must qualify that the Tribunal should neither be the first recourse nor the main way we resolve our disputes."
Being a civilised first world society, members of the public should be able to live with each other harmoniously and prosperously. When that harmony and peace and prosperity is threatened beyond utmost sincere efforts to achieve, something and someone has to give!
Lessons for me are:
1. when dealing with each other, the Chinese saying of: 'big thing turns into small thing and small thing turn into nothing' is a good practice;
2. the higher level, of course, would be: 'there is nothing that need to even cause tension and unhappiness with each others', especially with rational and emotionally stable people!;
3. when rule 2 and 1 above failed, there must be some intervention where the un-cooperative party will have to pay a price. A price so painful and inconvenient to him or her or them that it is plainly silly for any rational being to insist he or she or they WANT to pay that price. In which case, one can safely say that the person or persons involved need mental medical help!
Maybe this is something that the infamous Everitte Road neighbours yawned for in those terribly traumatic years! NOW it is HERE! NO more devilish neighbor to speak of now! :-)
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