Ask Mr. Dung!
Yup… that’s his name: Mr. Phan Tri Dung of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Mr. Dung put out a press release informing the world that twelve of his company’s hitech toilets are going to Barbados.
The toilets do everything, and they should because they cost US$39,000 each.
Hmmmm…. with that kind of price they must have been sold to some foolish Sandy Land trust fund baby or …. Horrors! Could this be a government project? Don’t say “no way” too quickly!
Intelligent Vietnamese Toilets To Go To Barbados
Twelve intelligent made-in-Vietnam public restrooms will be shipped to the Caribbean country of Barbados, said a local producer at a forum in Ho Chi Minh City Saturday.
Chairman of the HCMC-based Petech Electronics Company Phan Tri Dung told yesterday forum on the use of high-tech public restrooms in urban areas that the restrooms to be shipped were among his company’s most up-to-date, each costing US$39,000.
The restroom offers automatic flushing, deodorizing, ventilation, automatic door, automatic bidet lid, music, a TV monitoring system to see outside, greetings and reminders of automatic functions.
The restroom also wipes the floor, cleans and dries the bidet seat, washes and dries the user, dispenses toilet paper automatically and charges money with a coin slot.
Dung said that business contracts stipulate that the company would supply both foreign and domestic markets with 150 restrooms of this kind, worth a total of US$2.3 million, from June 2007 – June 2008.
In Ho Chi Minh City, the restrooms been placed at four locations – the Youth Culture House, Me Linh Quarter, Bach Dang Park, and Nguyen Du Sports House.
Source: Thanhien News.com
Barbados Free Press 
I have used similar toilets before in London and they are great. Always clean. Forget building a permanent structure for $250,000. Instead install two of these babies, make them unisex, dispense with the cleaners and the ICs who hang out in them doing nothing, and we can finally have clean and acessible toilets which will pay for themselves.
They’ve got similar ones in Martinique too, so we
we will not be the first local users.
They work well and compare very favourably
with conventional public toilets seen elsewhere.
Maybe these toilets will be installed at Kensington Oval.
Mascoll says (just heard him on VOB) that the venue already returned “30% of the Investment”.
BFP Mascoll and Lynch have been on the TV and Radio saying CWC2007 is a success, Tourist arrivals up over 10% etc.
I await BFP and Adrian Loveridge comments.
I have a problem with the 30% ( $42 millon) return from Kensington. Help ne understand.
Hants,
You may be right. The spin doctors have been busy. On the VOB Programme that is being aired at the moment Stephen Williams, son of John Williams have been saying he has problems with the way Edutec was rolled out and that the expectations were too ambitious and could not be sustained ( my interpretation). Apparently this program is in response to the Minister of Education saying that they are scalling back on the program.
The BLP seems to be adopting a position of publicly apologising for wastage in several projects but at the same time asking the public to focus on any small positive outcomes that might exist.
Minister Lynch like the West Indies Coach should resign. His projections were significantly off target and unrealistic. The result is the creation of a significant debt on the tax payers. Some body must be held accountable. Let us put some pressure on this Minister who may have once again succeeded in putting back the Payne/Pain into tourism.
No-Name
“Minister Lynch like the West Indies Coach should resign”
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What is the minister of Tourism doing meddling in the affairs of the Ministry of Sport?
He needs to talk with Senator Eastmond and see if he can grasp the concept of only speaking about matters under his portfolio.
Hants, I did send a response via BFP and I expect they will post it soon.
If Mr. Dung of PeeTech says these are good toilets, who can argue with him!!
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