TR EMERITUS

Patrick Tay, one of the Labour MPs, wrote something in the NTUC blog about preparing for jobs of the future. Then StatesTimesReview (STR) suggested that the ideas in that article were plagiarised from Workers’ Party (WP). What happened? One of the ideas that Patrick wrote in that article was to provide “direct wage support... 

I read this in the STR. ‘Singapore is paying S$2.34 billion to Australia to rent over 200,000 hectares – the size of 4 Singapore land mass – in Townsville North Queensland for 25 years to test long-range missiles. The lucrative deal signed in October is however blocked by local farmers who refuse to sell their land.’ I... 

I have raised this point many times and if I am not mistaken, no one thinks this is important enough to be raised in Parliament. I have read Leong Sze Hian post in TRE where he quoted the data from the media that since 2002, $90m was paid out under the Eldershield scheme. And his estimate on the premium collected was $3 billion....