Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said on Wednesday that the government plans to build a special needs school on the plot of land where the former greyhound racetrack is located.
Macau Yat Yuen Canidrome
About 500 greyhounds will stay for the time being in their kennels at the former racetrack in Fai Chi Kei as a provisional facility that Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome has controversially set up to house the dogs right next to a retirement home in Coloane has been rejected by the government for failing to meet the necessary criteria.
The government Wednesday stopped Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome’s plan to start moving its over 500 greyhounds next to an old people’s home with about 80 residents in Co-loane, saying in a statement that the “temporary facility to house greyhounds” had failed to meet the necessary environmental criteria.
French film star Brigitte Bardot has written a letter to Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, asking him to save the Canidrome greyhounds to prevent Macau from being identified globally as a “town of suffering” where “innocent animals die running for their life”.
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng addressing Thursday´s Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle said that the government was proposing to build four schools on the plot of land where the city’s greyhound racetrack is located.
Local animal protection group Anima urged the government to allow it to take over the greyhound racetrack in Fai Chi Kei for one year, after the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. shuts down its business there in July next year, so that the association would have enough time to rehabilitate the greyhounds for adoption overseas.
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On has authorised Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac to sign an agreement with Macau Yat Yuen Canidrome Co. Ltd. to extent the firm’s greyhound racing concession for one year, until the end of 2016, according to the Official Gazette (BO). The current concession is due to […]
The government should extend Macau Yat Yuen Canidrome’s greyhound racing concession for two or three years to give the firm sufficient time to improve its racetrack facilities and add “new features,” said Angela Leong On Kei, the firm’s acting chairwoman. The gaming executive-cum-lawmaker said that the operator had yet to be notified by the government […]
Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said on National Day he “believed” the government will extend the Macau Yat Yuen Canidrome’s greyhound racing concession “for a short period” without any change in the current contract terms, adding that the duration of the new concession had yet to be decided. The government has […]
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