Caution From The Venezuelan Example I was looking through the news on the internet and this piece of news troubled me greatly.
It is about incidents in Venezuela, which has a centrally planned, socialised healthcare system. It was mentioned that patients who opposed the dictatorial Maduro regime were denied healthcare by government doctors.
I think...
PAP Feeling Pressure from SDP: NTUC Annouces Price-Freeze Three days after the SDP launched our policy on tempering the cost of living in Singapore, the NTUC announces that it will freeze prices for 50 household products and reduce them for another 50 items from now until 30 June 2020.
This is the clearest sign yet that the PAP is feeling the heat of the SDP's policy where...
SDP Launch 10-Point Plan to lower Cost of Living
As one of the most, if not the most, expensive cities in the world, the rising cost of living in Singapore is a central concern for the people.
This was the SDP's focus in this afternoon's launch of our policy A Better Life For All: Lowering the Cost of Living In Singapore.
Despite PM Lee Hsien Loong's to “work...
Is a huge defence budget at the expense of a healthcare justifiable? So, Shanmugam posted something on his Facebook page, comparing Finland with us in terms of sustainable healthcare. Apparently he read a Reuters article in which the entire Finland cabinet Ministers resigned because they could not deliver on their healthcare promise.
He used that as an example of why healthcare in...
FLD: Leong Sze Hian faces defamation case Blogger and human rights defender Leong Sze Hian is facing defamation proceedings brought against him by the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong. The court action was brought on the basis that Leong Sze Hian posted on a Facebook an article published by a Malaysian media outlet.
Leong Sze Hian is a prominent...
Where Is The Accountability In Singapore? Hong Lim Park Rally Where Is The Accountability In Singapore? Hong Lim Park Rally - 16 March 4-7 pm!
Are you asking the following?
a) Why Ng Eng Hen is still Defence Minister after all the deaths of NS men during training;
b) Why is Gan Kim Yong still Health Minister despite all the debacles and fiascos such as the Hep C deaths, Health...
Irresponsible to allow old people to use CPF savings to buy... The liberalisation of CPF to enable elderly people to buy older flats that was recently announced in Parliament by Lawrence Wong. In my opinion, this is a most irresponsible and despicable policy. It is suicidal to say the least.
To begin with, old people do not have many more economically productive years left in them....
Unity is Strength I will like to first thank Lynda Ethan for providing valuable feedback.
She said: "I feel all the points the Oppo raised are good but impact not there... so a joint Election Campaign as to why Oppo is fighting for a seat is to save the country from further deterioration... which is true and has a deeper impact. I think...
Big problem with the way justice is perceived to be executed... There’s a big problem with the way justice is perceived to be executed in Singapore, especially when you consider the treatment of socio-political activist Jolovan Wham and the group of foreign workers who held a sit-down protest outside the old CPF building in the CBD area.
Wham held up a sign outside the State Court...
NEA owes a duty to Punggol residents to clarify impact of...
I have given repeated feedback to REACH about Punggol housing estate which is just a few kilometres away from the sprawling Pasir Gudang petrochemical complex. Long term exposure to the fumes will no doubt raise concerns about the possibility of ill-health.
But until now, the National Environment Agency couldn't...
Musing of newbie politician...
Yesterday my 7 year-old gave this little piece of crumpled appointment letter to me. While I knew she was appointed class monitoress some weeks ago, I didn't know that it was such a formal process that warrant the issuing of a Letter of Appointment.
There is this little paragraph in it that goes:
"Leadership is...
Here's How We can Lower the Cost of Living: SDP's Policy... The SDP will propose concrete ways on how to keep the cost of living down for Singaporeans. This will take place in a major policy announcement which will be unveiled next Saturday, 16 March.
The rising cost of living is a major concern for Singaporeans. Already one of the most expensive cities in the world, the PAP...
Changes to Secondary Education A number of fundamental changes to the way our students are taught at secondary school has been the highlight for me in Parliament today. The changes are welcomed and as Minister Ong spoke, my memory took me back to Telok Blangah close to 30 years ago. Two issues in particular came back to me as if it were yesterday.
When...
Citizen's dividend The Merdeka package and the earlier pioneer package are important policy promulgations that recognise that there is monetary value contributed by citizens to the wealth of this country.
The mere fact of living and working here has contributed to the money value of this place. If there was nobody living in this place,...
Ong Ye Kung Adopts SDP's Proposal to Abolish Streaming In announcing that the Education Ministry will abandon streaming by 2024, Mr Ong Ye Kung has shown that the PAP is following the SDP's lead again.
In our policy proposal Educating for Creativity and Equality: An Agenda for Transformation, the SDP wrote:
“Therefore under the SDP’s education plan, the PSLE will...
