Has Sai Kung lost its pride? Why is the town centre so untidy, dirty, dilapidated and lacking in floral beauty — at Chinese New Year! Alert reader Julie King has sent BUZZ photos contrasting the mess of Man Yee Square today to the beauty and pride that we displayed some years ago. What has gone wrong? Have certain people in positions of power been there so long they have given up caring?
Julie sent these comments, along with photos of the state of Man Yee Square today: “The square is filthy. The kids’ playground has been broken for months. Graffiti on buildings is on the increase. I have never seen the square so disgusting.”
Julie, on the way it used to in the good old days when the people in power cared about how our town looked: “The square some years back was clean and well looked after with beautiful flowers everywhere. I wonder why the area has been forgotten.”
Man Yee Square a few years ago
Would like to mention Julie that in HK the ‘people’ are NOT in power. Only a select, vetted few have any input on civic affairs, including the appearance of the parks, walkways and overflowing rubbish bins. Those power-folks don’t really care about the dirt in SK coz their personal fortune and pension is tied to the dictates of the impotent top leaders of HK, not to the welfare of the locals. I do hate to say it so openly but you, and all who think the HK people have any sort of civic power, are totally wasting personal energy.
Yes Julie I was disappointed when I was there two weeks ago. Not as I remembered it when we lived there.
Yes, I have noticed graffiti on the walls. I don’t think we had this before? And it’s true that said Kung town isn’t being maintained. We should bring this to the attention of the responsible Government department.
I totally agree. All the dreadful plastic fencing which serves no useful purpose other than to line the pockets of the LCSD suppliers should be removed.
LCSD, FEHD and AFCD should co-ordinate their cleaning action or use the same contractors. At present FEHD clean opens spaces and ignore flower beds, LCSD do the reverse and AFCD are supposed to clean BBQ and picnic sites.