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Rich Woman Cheats On Taxi Fare And Dares Taxi Driver To Make Police Report

Dear Editors,

The women in pictures took a taxi on 13 Aug 2015, taxi fare is $12.70. Arrived at her Caribbean condo she said no cash. Taxi driver allow her to money transfer $12.70 via bank account. Today 27 Aug 2015 (2 weeks already) driver still have not receive his payment.

Driver send her sms that he had made a police report about her non taxi fare payment and she reply looking forward to meet the police officer. And also she give a fake name card to the taxi driver.

SG Taxi Driver
A.S.S. Contributor

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

August 28, 2015
HDB Wants To Increase My Rental By 37% After Elections End?

Dear Editors,

In a sign of skyrocketing costs of living and business after this upcoming polling day, HDB had sent us a letter right after the election was announced warning us that they intend to raise the rental of our HDB rental unit by a whooping mind-boggling 37%! That’s more than one-third of our current rental and more than $700 per month! But that’s not all. It seems like the letter (see the attached) is a standard letter that is sent to all HDB commercial and industrial property tenants, so we are not the only tenant who is affected.

The PAP ministers had repeatedly claimed they wanted to help Singaporean businesses and workers thrive in Singapore. However, their actions speak louder than words. By increasing our rental by 37% and more than $700 per month, we will have no choice but to cut our workers’ salaries, retrench one of them, or increase our product prices to offset our rental increase so that we can stay in business and pay HDB the higher rental.

We are a small setup and we hire strictly Singaporeans only, so our labour costs are already much higher than our competitors who hire foreigners. We value our workers and we do not wish to put them out of job. But if you are in our shoes, faced with a worsening economy, increasing competition, declining business and skyrocketing rental, you will also have no choice but to take one of the above-mentioned courses of action or go out of business. Increasing our product prices will make our products less competitive and result in lower sales, so it is not an option. Cutting our workers’ salaries will lower their morale and they may quit in no time. Retrenching one of our workers is therefore the only option and the remaining workers will just have to share some of the additional workload. This is not an ideal situation but what else can anyone in our shoes do when forced by HDB to cough out more money for them?

As the largest landlord in Singapore, the PAP government, be it HDB, CapitalMall, Temasek Holdings or otherwise, wields the sole power to set our costs of living and business, and by extension, our quality of life. We elected them and pay them multi-million dollar salaries to work and fight for a better standard of life for us, not to make life miserable and worse off for us. As Mr Low Thia Khiang rightly pointed out, we are the owners of this country instead of the government. Why do we have to keep paying HDB, CapitalMall, Temasek Holdings etc. more and more to use our own land to do business or live?

SG50 is not working out well for us so far, so we cannot imagine how much worse SG100 will be.

Mai Kee Chiu
A.S.S. Contributor

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

August 28, 2015
Redzwan Hafidz Believes Good Parliament Requires Open, Healthy Debates

Age: 30

Education:
Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical), University of Newcastle, Australia
Master of Science in Engineering Business Management, University of Warwick, UK

Occupation:
Engineer

Marital Status:
Married

Background:
Redzwan is an Engineer. He is a member of both Engineers Australia and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK.

He attended Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Pasir Ris Secondary School and Griffiths Primary School before he went to university in Australia. As a student, Redzwan was active in various sports, cultural and uniformed organisations. He was the Vice-captain for his polytechnic’s sepak takraw team in 2004

Redzwan is the only son in the family. He has two sisters. He grew up in the east. In the past, Redzwan’s grandfather was a Senior UMNO member in Singapore, and was active in politics during the 1950s.

As a student, Redzwan had the opportunity to observe the 2007 Australian Federal Elections in which the incumbent Coalition government was defeated. He enjoyed watching the parliamentary debates. This sparked his interest further, and made him realise how democracy could work, and how the vote of the people could bring about changes to the government. Upon his return to Singapore, Redzwan saw changes in Singapore, and felt that the current policies could be improved. They include bread and butter issues such as cost of living and housing. Recalling his Australian experience, Redzwan decided to join WP after he realized that a good parliamentary system should be one which allows for healthy debate between two or more parties so that there is proper scrutiny before any bills are passed.

In 2013, Redzwan was elected as a Youth Wing Exco member. Since 2011, Redzwan has been active with the party as well as a grassroots volunteer serving residents in Aljunied GRC.

Source: www.wp.sg

August 28, 2015
Residents In Sunshine Gardens Still Plagued By Faulty Pipe Issues, HDB Say ‘Nothing Wrong’

We were informed by residents of Sunshine garden in CCK of these recurring problems that is still left unsolved.

When there is a heavy rain the void deck of some blocks keep getting floods, this has happened quite a few times and it seems that nothing was done to it.

Although the flats are only a few months old, there are many units with the piping problem that gave the residents much headaches.

On one particular night many residents heard a big loud bang in the night and after which many units have a systematic looking hairline crack at the center of living room the cracks are aligned together with the bedrooms. They thought that these problems can’t be coincidental.

They had informed their town council and was referred instead to HDB and had told them that there is “nothing wrong” with this problem.

But why that PAP keep saying that this election is all about Town Council issues?

Source: People’s Power Party

August 28, 2015
Firuz Khan – Former Principal Of Pertapis A Self-Proclaimed Social Advocate

In 1999, he was approached by a friend to manage voluntary welfare organisation Pertapis Children’s Home. Despite having to take a pay cut — he was in banking then — Mr Firuz Khan decided to try out the role because he wanted to have a better understanding of issues faced by the Malay-Muslim community, while he also felt that Singapore society had changed in the time he was in the United Kingdom for his studies.

His two years as principal of Pertapis Children’s Home was what spurred Mr Khan to embark on a political journey. “(The experience) led me to believe that I could do more by helping others outside of the home as well and I started to look for other ways to continue this journey. In 2006, I joined the Workers’ Party,” Mr Khan said after he was introduced yesterday as one of the party’s candidate for the upcoming General Election.

His time with the party has helped him to identify issues that affect Singaporeans most, he added.

Mr Khan also shared one of the encounters he had during his time at Pertapis that compelled him “to want to change things”.

It was a Saturday morning, one of the days families could visit their children at the home, but Mr Khan noticed two children on their own without visitors.

When he found out from the home’s social workers that the two children’s parents did not have the means to travel to see them, Mr Khan arranged for a taxi to fetch the parents over. “When the parents arrived and the family was reunited, I could see smiles all over their faces and it touched my heart,” he said.

The self-proclaimed social advocate said if he was elected into Parliament in next month’s poll, he would speak up on topics such as income inequality, healthcare, housing and education.

Firuz Khan, 48

Owner of a chocolate business

FACT FILE:

• Holder of a Master of Business Administration in International Business from University of Birmingham

• Represented Singapore in a tournament in Japan with the PA Youth Under-21 football team in 1984

• Left the banking industry to be the principal of Pertapis Children’s Home to understand social issues in Singapore

• Joined the Workers’ Party in 2006 and volunteers at Mr Chen Show Mao’s Meet-the-People session at the Paya Lebar division of Aljunied GRC

• Married with a son

HE SAID: “In 1999, I was asked by a friend to manage Pertapis. I took a pay cut from my banking career to take up the challenge because I wanted to understand the social issues engulfing our community. It was also my way to contribute to Singapore and especially to my own community, the Malay Muslims … (The experience) led me to believe that I could do more by helping others outside of the home as well and I started to look for other ways to continue this journey. In 2006, I joined the Workers’ Party.”

Source: www.todayonline.com

August 28, 2015