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Archive for the ‘Policies’ Category

A final rejoinder on justifications for water price increase

I published a second reply to Colin’s comment on my justifications for water price increase in The Online Citizen on 4 March, Colin published a further comment on 7 March arguing again that all my points are ‘bullshit’. I reply briefly herewith for a final time, as I do not have time to prolong the debate and as...

Difference between Singapore, UK, USA and Australia?

Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Law, Indranee Rajah I refer to the article “Indranee: ‘Perfectly acceptable’ for Attorney-Generals to be politicians in some countries” (Yahoo News, Mar 3). It states that “Many countries see it as “perfectly proper” to have an Attorney-General (AG)...

Watergate: PUB got consumption figures all wrong?

Maybe it’s not all politics when contrasting the 30% hike with what VivianB said in 2015 about water being priced correctly: there was no need to change the price because PUB has improvements in membrane tech and productivity and that the water tariff and WCT reflected the scarcity of water. I just remembered that for several...

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