TR EMERITUS

The headline from Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing’s national broadcast on Sunday is that the government will create 100,000 jobs in 2021 to help Singaporeans cope with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This figure of 100,000 jobs is obviously very impressive. In January this year, the Minister revealed that 60,000... 

I consider that the ministers in the task force are insane. They have taken contact tracing to an insane level. The most recent example is to require the taxi drivers to issue receipts to their passengers and to ask the passengers to keep the receipts for 14 days for contact tracing. They even want to impose a fine of $50 for... 

This is quite a propaganda piece - “8 in 10 Singaporeans willing to pay more for essential services”. Great! Now that Covid-19 has exposed how essential essential workers are, Singaporeans are willing to pay more. For awhile, it managed to slip the narrative into my mind: that we, the people, are the cause of essential workers’...