There were many classses of fines in SIngapore .
Nope , I am not talking about fine, finer , finest type of FINES
I am talking about FINES, as in DOLLARS, CENTS PAID in FINES . . .
Many heartlanders are used to it .. fine for not paying taxes, duties that's ok .
Look at it from a person with genuine cashflow problem .. not those rich towkays and nyonyas who purposely engage in game of brinkmanship ...
What if the person has no cash to pay it for say, their Conservancy charges ? This recession has made many PMETs pocket dry as the Sahara desert for months, if not more than a year !
Find work ? Sure, but PMETs have been scratching at doors of many employers without any results ...
So, if they cannot pay the fine , should we not empower them ? Enable them to pay it in other forms , egs do some work for the Ministry concerned who imposed the fine itself ? Rate their services on number of hours of their last drawn pay , for instance ? Thats means they pay by providing public service .. or simply said, community service , ya!
This is not the mode here, however . It was a known fact that such resorts were unlikely . Most likely , these people would be taken as made an offence, and dragged to court . They would then be fined by the judge, in default , few days of prison . Strange, the other party has no money in the first place , to pay his basic needs, and SLAAAP come another bill/ fine .. pay or stay the nights in the dungeon .
So, as an analogy , if someone is drowning in a pool, we make the pool deeper ? Hmmm...
Once they go to prison, the employment prospects looks even dimmer and dimmer ... not to mention the problems that comes with it ...
We should look at this issue seriously. Easily said, just go to any sessions in Sub Courts, there are many such cases here. Or easier still, open our ears and listen to the sighs of many such cases here.
I am concerned as a citizen, that we're putting money above human self-worth . THis should not be the case . . .
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