Several Groups of Youths Allegedly Break 5-Person Gathering Cap to Play Sports at Tampines

With the return of home-based learning and now, the June holidays, many students may be dearly missing their P.E. periods and attempting to find ways to get their periodic dose of exercise during this period of time.

However, instead of choosing the safest option of staying home and attempting to finally get down to that Chloe Ting ab workout, some young people have been seen playing games in Tampines in group sizes that breach the five-person limit on social gatherings.

Here’s all that you need to know. 

Several Groups of Youths Allegedly Break 5-Person Gathering Cap to Play Sports at Tampines

On Tuesday (22 Jun), Tampines GRC MP Baey Yam Keng uploaded several photos on his Facebook of youngsters at the basketball and futsal courts near Block 494J Tampines Street 45, violating the five-person limit on social gatherings. 

The photos were taken by a resident at around 5:30pm last Saturday (19 Jun), who had then emailed them to Mr Baey. 

He said that the courts had been closed off and barricades were even put up by the Tampines Town Council as there had been prior cases of people breaching safe distancing regulations at the area.

The barricades had first been put in place on 17 June.

According to Mr Baey, it was evident that the young people “broke through the barricades”. He said that they had firstly committed an offence by “[forcing] access to closed common facilities”. 

Following that, they had then “violated the prevailing measures of not more than five people in a gathering”. 

Mr Baey also said that they were “appealing to the public for information on these individuals” for them to be “[taken] to task” by the authorities. 

He appealed to the members of the public to “abide by safe management measures so that we can keep everyone safe from the pandemic”. 

Mr Baey added that new barricades would be put up by the Tampines Town Council. 

He said that he did not lodge a police report and he also did not think that the resident had done so. 

He added that his usual advice to residents who catch others breaching safe distancing regulations would be to lodge a report on the Government’s OneService app. 

First-time offenders who breach safe distancing measures may face a composition fine of up to S$300, while second-time offenders may be fined up to $1,000 and could also be charged in court.

Moral of the story? We should all stick to our Chloe Ting home workouts instead.

Feature Image: Facebook (Baey Yam Keng 马炎庆)