Welcoming the Palestinian Government Official at Mamanda.
Thank you and we are honour to have you in Mamanda .
Source: Mamanda
Category: Politik
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Masyarakat Melayu/Islam Singapura Perlu Pimpinan Agama Kuat, Berwibawa
KAHIRAH, MESIR: Masyarakat Melayu/Islam Singapura memerlukan kepimpinan keagamaan yang kuat dan berwibawa.
Ini sedang Singapura berdepan dengan cabaran-cabaran ekonomi baru. Malah, masyarakat Melayu/Islam juga perlu menyesuaikan diri dengan keadaan baru untuk terus berkembang.
Mutu dan nilai kepimpinan yang tulen jugalah yang akan memberi manfaat kepada masyarakat Melayu/Islam, di tengah-tengah sekitaran yang tidak menentu dan berubah-ubah.
Demikian ditegaskan Menteri Bertanggungjawab bagi Ehwal Masyarakat Islam, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, kepada para pelajar Singapura yang baru tamat pengajian di Universiti Al-Azhar di Kahirah. Majlis konvokesyen (1 Nov) bagi 45 penuntut Singapura di ibu kota Mesir itu lebih istimewa, kerana buat pertama kalinya, diserikan dengan kehadiran Presiden Tony Tan Keng Yam, yang kini dalam rangka lawatan negara selama lima hari ke Mesir.
Presiden Tony Tan Keng Yam bersama graduan Singapura, Aufa Muhammad Sidqee di majlis konvokesyen di Universiti Al-Azhar. (Gambar: MUIS)
MANFAATKAN PEJABAT KERJAYA DAN KEBAJIKAN PELAJAR (SCWO)
Dr Yaacob yang juga merupakan Menteri Perhubungan dan Penerangan menekankan, semangat ingin tahu dan terus menerus belajar merupakan satu lagi kualiti penting kepimpinan. Lantaran itu, beliau mengajak para graduan supaya melihat majlis konvokesyen itu sebagai “hanya satu tahap dalam perjalanan panjang untuk mempertingkatkan diri anda”.
“Anda mesti secara konsisten mempertingkatkan diri anda dengan ilmu dan kemahiran-kemahiran yang relevan, untuk bergerak seiring dan berkembang maju dalam dunia yang sentiasa berubah,” ujar Dr Yaacob dalam ucapan tersebut.
Beliau kemudian memberitahu para graduan universiti ulung itu, bahawa mereka boleh memanfaatkan sumber-sumber dari Pejabat Kerjaya dan Kebajikan Pelajar (SCWO) yang baru ditubuhkan. SCWO menawarkan peluang-peluang latihan kepada mahasiswa dan siswazah dalam usaha mempersiapkan mereka untuk ekonomi baru. SCWO bekerjasama dengan agensi-agensi awam dan swasta.
FAHAMI KOMPLEKSITI MASYARAKAT & DAPATKAN ILMU DI LUAR DISIPLIN KEAGAMAAN
Menyentuh mengenai Skim Pengiktirafan Asatizah (ARS), Dr Yaacob berkata MUIS merancang untuk menjalankan lebih banyak lagi program untuk para graduan Singapura dari universiti Islam luar negara. Program-program tersebut merupakan “satu keperluan” sebelum mereka didaftarkan ke dalam ARS, kongsi Dr Yaacob.
Program tersebut, di mana para pesertanya didedahkan kepada pelbagai perspektif berhubung tradisi Islam dan konteksnya dengan kehidupan moden, “akan mempersiapkan anda untuk berjaya sebagai asatizah”, kata Dr Yaacob lagi.
(Gambar-gambar: MUIS)
Beliau yang juga Menteri Bertanggungjawab bagi Keselamatan Siber, menyeru para graduan Islam Singapura supaya “memahami kompleksiti masyarakat” dan mempunyai kemahiran berbeza-beza “di luar disiplin sains keagamaan”.
Dr Yaacob berharap mereka juga akan mendewasa dengan menjadi “satu suara yang berkeyakinan untuk masyarakat progresif kita, untuk membimbing masyarakat supaya istiqamah dengan agama kita, dan menyumbang kepada pembinaan sebuah negara yang harmoni”.
Selain Presiden Tony Tan, majlis konvokesyen itu turut dihadiri Timbalan Imam Besar Al Azhar, Dr Abbas Shoman, Duta Singapura ke Mesir, Encik S Premjith dan Timbalan Ketua Eksekutif MUIS, Dr Albakri Ahmad.
Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg
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Uniquely Singapore Or Another Fiasco?
There are more than 2m foreigners in the island of 3.5m population. Several hundred thousands of these foreigners from half past six countries and half past six universities are gainfully employed, happily employed, replacing the supposedly better qualified Singaporeans in their jobs. And the Singaporeans, the experienced and well qualified, the young graduates, are crying for jobs. They are unemployable, underemployed, they are mismatched!
And all we heard of is that it is all because of mismatch. And these jobless Singaporeans are told to go overseas to find their rainbows. Not in Singapore. They are mismatched, they are misfits in their own countries. Their hundreds of thousands dollar education and degrees are useless, cannot eat, cannot find a job. They are only good enough to compete overseas, forget about in the US and Europe if they can’t even find a job in home town, unable to compete with half past six degree foreigners.
They should go to third world countries to sell their skills and earn cheap currencies. And don’t think of coming back, don’t think of earning and saving enough to be able to survive back home. The cheap currencies they earned will become cheaper when brought home to spend in the world’s most expensive city. They are failures in Singapore and how could they expect the third world countries to hire them and pay them well? Even if they wanted to, they could not afford to.
Singapore is not for Singaporeans. Singaporeans are only good enough to work in third world countries. And the govt knows that and are helping them with a lot of courses and training programmes to equip them to survive in third world countries. Probably they will teach them how to lower their expectations, how to live life in a third world countries, how to get use to third world standard of living, how to tighten their belts.
Singapore is good only for foreigners, especially those from third world countries. These are the highly skilled and trained talents Singapore needs, with half past six degrees. Though they came from half past six universities, they have no mismatch problems. They matched beautifully with the needs of this first world city. The proof, a few hundred thousands of them are already here, employed in jobs that mismatched Singaporeans cannot do.
Did anyone say Uniquely Singapore? With so many silly mismatched PMETs, what more proof is needed to confirm that Singaporeans are daft? The daft Singaporeans don’t even know why they are unemployable, why they became mismatched, misfits. The only thing they know, is that they are told that this is the reason. And everyone accepts this silly reason with no further question asked. Several hundred thousands of half past six foreigners are fit, not mismatched and taking over the jobs of the misfit Singaporeans. To laugh or to cry?
And we are boasting about having three of the world’s best universities run by foreigners, the bulk of the academic staff and administrative staff is foreigners. I am waiting for the Parliament to be taken over by foreigners and pronouncing that Singaporeans are misfits to be in Parliament and should go elsewhere to live. This is only a matter of time.
Where is the real mismatch?
Chua Chin Leng aka Redbean
*The writer blogs at My Singapore News.
Source: www.tremeritus.com
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WP Chief Low Thia Khiang: KPMG Report On Past Payments & Transactions ‘Inconclusive’
The audit report on the Aljunied-Hougang Town Council’s (AHTC) past payments and transactions remains “inconclusive” despite the manpower and resources spent, said Workers’ Party (WP) chief Low Thia Khiang on Wednesday (Nov 2).
Mr Low was making his first comments on audit firm KPMG’s finding that flawed governance in the WP-run AHTC had exposed millions in public funds to improper use, to the extent there could be criminal conduct if lapses were deliberate.
“The report seems to have a lot of answering (to do) despite the fact that they had deployed a lot of manpower, public monies (were) used, and eight months spent,” said Mr Low, who was speaking to reporters before the start of his fortnightly Meet-the-People Session at the void deck of Block 522 Hougang Avenue 6. “The town council also spent a lot of manpower responding to their queries. The MPs were also being interviewed to satisfy their questions, but unfortunately the report seems to be inconclusive in that sense. So that’s it.”
KPMG’s 68-page report, which was made public by AHTC on its website on Tuesday, flagged “serious conflicts of interest” and a “failed control environment” which exposed millions of dollars in public funds to improper use, including in payments to its former managing agent FM Solutions & Services and service provider FM Solutions and Integrated Services.
The owners of these two companies concurrently held key management and financial control positions in the town council and approved 132 payment vouchers amounting to more than S$23 million from the town council to the company.
KPMG also said improper payments to FMSS and FMSI alone amounted to over S$1.5 million, of which at least S$600,000 ought to be recovered by the town council.
The improper payments to FMSS and FMSI included overpayments for project management fees, overpayments to FMSS for purported overtime and CPF contributions payments to FMSS without certification that work had been performed, as well as payments made without the requisite co-signature of members of the town council.
AHTC also overpaid when it appointed FMSS as its managing agent by more than S$1.2 million.
Responding to these issues, Mr Low reiterated the points in a statement issued by his party on Tuesday, saying KPMG had found “no fictitious, fraudulent, nor duplicate payments”.
“So that is what is important for the public to know,” he added.
Mr Low also said the report “has not said anything” about conflicts of interest among the WP Members of Parliament, the town councillors, FMSS, and other contractors it appointed.
“To me, the report is simply more detailed than AGO’s report, in terms of the framework, and the kind of lapses they found are basically as the AGO’s but in more detail, yes, because they had spent a lot of time going through the records. It is a forensic audit,” he added.
Mr Low was referring to a special audit by the Auditor-General’s Office that found major lapses in compliance and governance in AHTC. The finding led to a High Court ordering AHTC to appoint auditors to fix these lapses.
After fielding questions for five minutes, Mr Low ended the doorstop interview, saying the town council was still studying KPMG’s report and would issue media releases on the matter, if necessary.
Meanwhile, Nanyang Technological University accounting professor El’fred Boo said the proposed amendments to the Town Councils Act would help strengthen governance in a few ways, such as how to avoid conflict of interest situations. But he felt that there could be other changes, such as a requirement to set clear objectives and performance milestones to make it easier to assess them and hold them accountable.
More regular compliance audits could also be made a requirement to boost the Ministry of National Development’s ability to monitor the situation at individual town councils, said Associate Professor Boo. At the same time, there should be a channel for people to report matters of concern to the town council chairman and/or MND, he added.
Source: www.todayonline.com
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WP Member Bernard Chen: Free Travel For Singaporeans Until Fundamental Issues With Public Transportation Are Fixed
Until our transport companies and the Ministry get their act together, Singaporeans should be granted free travel on our entire transport network. #justsaying #notsocrazyanidea. #onlyfair. Why should consumers made to pay for a system that is so unreliable and inefficient? I pay a fare to get from point A to point B, not to be stuck on the platform, or in between stations. If the service is not rendered, only fair that consumers need not pay. And why must I pay for your provision of “free bus services” whenever the trains don’t run. #mightaswelldontbuildraillines.
When their pockets are severely hit, then probably we can finally see some tangible improvements to our public transport system. It is not about paying more for the system for it to be better. It is about sorting out the fundamental problems before you ask consumers to pay. Provide a service first, and consumers will pay. #logicofgovernanceinSingapore#everythingalso讲钱.
Source: Chen Jiaxi Bernard