Year of breakthroughs for island

Posted by admin on December 27th, 2009 filed in Activities, Beach life, Day tripping, Family fun, Living here, Property, Shopping, The locals

The police in Phuket are planning to bring in a new process of mediation for dispute settling to cap off a year full of innovative developments on the island.

The island’s court system has seen a similar principle hailed as a breakthrough and so the security forces may soon follow suit.

Phuket chief justice Varangkana Sujaritkul told reporters that she did not see any problem involving corruption with the plans. She added that there would always be a minimum of two parties involved in any process, making the potential for bias negligible.

There were a number of interesting innovations introduced to Phuket in 2009 such as the ‘keep beaches clean’ campaign, ‘Summer on Phuket’ concept of marketing, music on the beach Roy Fest festival, plus jet-ski insurance.

Next year will see the banning of free plastic bags in the majority of the island’s retailers in a bid to tackle excess waste.