TR EMERITUS

It’s appalling that the buck stops with the men at the bottom. In the Bukit Batok fire, the town council officer who padlocked the hose reels will be redeployed while his two supervisors will be penalised. As to the case of the missing water, the Town Council, having been slapped with a Fire Hazard Abatement Notice for non-compliance... 

We have the most powerful armed forces in the region, the most powerful air force, the most power navy, but we cannot protect our islands from being invaded and occupied by 2m foreigners. Actually we invited them, oops, not we, the govt invited them to occupy our little piece of rock, so short of land even for our Singaporeans... 

A few years ago, it was common to see the words "tweak" and "calibrate". The ministers used them almost every day. When they see any problem, they immediately think about how to "calibrate" and "tweak" the system to solve the problem. It seemed that the only way to solve problems in Singapore is by "tweaking" and "calibrating"....