TR EMERITUS

With all the publicity about the Elected President, everyone should know that one of the key functions of the President is to protect the reserves of Singapore. In 1984, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said the following at a dialogue session in Tanjong Pagar Community Centre [Link]. If the Government acted irresponsibly, he noted, 'your one... 

Late last week, one day after former senior and law minister S Jayakumar said that the President was not “a centre of power unto himself”, law minister K Shanmugam released a three-page statement explaining the role of the president. It said the President “has no role to advance his own policy agenda”. Well that’s... 

In Part 1 of this article, we made suggestions for establishing a system where every single citizen is covered by a basic health care policy into which the Government and the people contribute, and which must remain genuinely affordable. To achieve this we further suggest a single-payer universal health care system in which...