Sausage vendors Sompong
(surname unknown) and his wife would like to ask the government to try to
keep control of rising fresh food prices.
Vittaya Yoondorn
With Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra hosting a cabinet
meeting in town, Pattaya residents took the opportunity to express what they
think the government should be concentrating on.
Vendors at the Old Naklua and Wat Chaimongkol markets
said they thought ministers ought to institute some price controls on
produce and seafood, complaining shrimp had risen to 145 baht a kilogram and
pork up to 150 baht a kilo.
On Walking Street, restaurant workers and beach vendors
said they thought flooding should be at the top of the legislative agenda.
Others expressed hope for more government handouts for the elderly and a
stepped-up “war on drugs.”
Like most, Wirat Daengmanee, 55, a Pattaya rental agent,
said he was proud the government chose to hold the cabinet meeting at the
Royal Cliff Beach Resort. It showed the government’s faith in Pattaya’s
security and potential.
A group of Pong sub-district
people near Mabprachan dam await the arrival of Prime Minister Yingluck
Shinawatra and her cabinet on their tour of the dam development.
