Tag: Fatimah Lateef

  • Fatimah Lateef Saran Model ‘6M’ Sebagai Formula Rangsang Pencapaian Masyarakat Melayu Singapura

    Fatimah Lateef Saran Model ‘6M’ Sebagai Formula Rangsang Pencapaian Masyarakat Melayu Singapura

    Masyarakat Melayu/Islam Singapura banyak meraih kemajuan dan kecemerlangan, hasil kerja keras dan kerjasama dengan pemerintah untuk mencapainya.

    AP GRC Marine Parade, Profesor Madya Fatimah Lateef berkata demikian hari ini di sidang media yang diadakan untuk memperkenalkan secara rasmi barisan calon PAP bagi GRC Marine Parade dalam Pilihan Raya Umum akan datang.

    Namun beliau turut menekankan bahawa “masih terdapat golongan yang memerlukan bantuan kita semua”.

    “Jadi inilah golongan yang harus kita dekati dan bantu mereka, tetapi jangan lupa tentang golongan yang atas juga. Mereka juga perlu penglibatan kita. Dan kita akan selalu mendekati setiap golongan dan lapisan masyarakat,” tambah beliau.

    MODEL ‘M’ UNTUK DEKATI RAKYAT DAN PENDUDUK 

    Profesor Madya Fatimah turut mendedahkan model ‘6M’ yang membawa kepada konsep berteraskan keluarga yang diterapkan dalam GRC Marine Parade.

    • 1. Menukar minda

    M yang pertama, ujar beliau, ialah menukar minda.

    “Kalau kita boleh mengubah minda kita, kita juga boleh mengubah cara kehidupan kita. Inilah yang saya terapkan dalam keluarga-keluarga yang saya dekati dan bantu,” jelas beliau.

    • 2. Motivasi

    M yang kedua pula ialah motivasi. Profesor Madya Fatimah berkata, keluarga-keluarga yang terjerat dalam lingkaran kemiskinan harus dibantu.

    Mereka harus ada sikap yang ingin meningkatkan diri dan bertambah baik setiap tahun, bukan sahaja untuk diri sendiri, tetapi juga untuk keluarga mereka, katanya. Dan maka itu, motivasi adalah elemen yang begitu penting.

    “Kita sebagai Anggota Parlimen memberi mereka motivasi itu, jalan bersama mereka, pegang tangan mereka dan pimpin mereka bersama,” kata beliau.

    • 3. Masyarakat majmuk

    Menurut beliau lagi, masyarakat Melayu/Islam tempatan boleh menjadi global dan dikenali kerana diberikan wadah untuk terus maju di Singapura, dalam masyarakat majmuk.

    • 4. Meritokrasi

    Dengan sistem meritokrasi di Singapura, mereka dengan latar belakang yang susah dapat maju ke hadapan disebabkan oleh kegigihan dan ketekunan untuk meningkatkan diri, kata Profesor Madya Fatimah.

    • 5. Maju bersama-sama

    Profesor Madya Fatimah berkata: “M selanjutnya ialah kita harus maju bersama-sama.”

    “Yang kuat tolong yang lemah. Yang kaya tolong yang susah. Ini adalah satu model kolaborasi yang baik, dan itulah yang kita terapkan dalam GRC Marine Parade,” katanya.

    • 6. Memudahkan

    Profesor Madya Fatimah merumuskan perincian tentang model ‘M’ dengan menjelaskan tentang membuat kemudahan atau memudahkan.

    “Apa-apa yang susah difahami oleh masyarakat, kita ‘simplify’ atau membuatnya senang untuk difahami,” katanya.

    Profesor Madya Fatimah, yang sudah berkhidmat di GRC Marine Parade sejak 2006, menekankan bahawa untuk menerapkan kesemua ‘6M’, para AP perlu terus mendekati masyarakat.

    Beliau berusia 49 tahun dan bertugas sebagai seorang doktor dan konsultan di Hospital Besar Singapura. Beliau juga Timbalan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Parlimen Pemerintah (GPC) bagi Kesihatan.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • PAP Unveils Team For Marine Parade GRC

    PAP Unveils Team For Marine Parade GRC

    The People’s Action Party (PAP) has confirmed that Mr Edwin Tong will be fielded in Joo Chiat as part of the Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC) team for the coming General Election.

    Anchored by Social and Family Development Minister Tan Chuan-Jin, the rest of the team will include incumbents Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Assoc Prof Fatimah Lateef and Mr Seah Kian Peng.

    The team had previously been cited as the likely line-up for Marine Parade GRC by Mr Goh on the MParader Facebook page. Mr Goh had said he requested for Mr Tong “to be tested” in Joo Chiat, a single-seat ward in the 2011 GE that has been absorbed into Marine Parade GRC for the coming GE.

    Mr Tong, who comes from Moulmein-Kallang GRC, replaces MP Tin Pei Ling, who will stand in the newly carved-out MacPherson single-seat ward.

    Fighting his 9th election, Mr Goh said this morning (Aug 26) he could have retired but felt duty-bound to stay on when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong asked him to. On Mr Tan’s appointment as anchor minister in Marine Parade GRC, Mr Goh said: “This is national leadership transition in action”.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Goh Chok Tong To Stand In Marine Parade, Reveals ‘Likely Team’

    Goh Chok Tong To Stand In Marine Parade, Reveals ‘Likely Team’

    Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, who has been an MP in Marine Parade since 1976, said on Tuesday (Aug 4) that he will likely stand in the next election.

    In a post on the Marine Parade Facebook page, he revealed the People’s Action Party (PAP)’s likely line-up in his five-member GRC for the next election.

    Four of the five members of the current team will remain, except Ms Tin Pei Ling, whose MacPherson ward will be carved out as a single seat in the next General Election (GE).

    The fifth member of ESM Goh’s team is likely to be first-term MP Edwin Tong, whose current Jalan Besar ward is part of the soon-to-be-dissolved Moulmein-Kallang GRC.

    He will likely be fielded in the Joo Chiat division, a closely-contested single seat that will be absorbed into Marine Parade GRC for the next GE. Joo Chiat’s current MP, Charles Chong, is expected to contest the Workers’ Party-held single seat of Punggol East.

    Mr Tong attended his first public event at the constituency, a National Day celebratory parade, on Sunday. He also attended the Joo Chiat National Day dinner the same day.

    Said ESM Goh: “At my request, (the) party sent Edwin Tong to Marine Parade GRC to be tested for Joo Chiat.”

    “This is likely to be the MP GRC team for GE,” he added, referring to a picture of himself, Mr Tong, Minister for Social and Family Development Tan Chuan-Jin and veteran backbenchers Fatimah Lateef and Mr Seah Kian Peng

    “As for me, a few friends have suggested that I retire as I have done enough for the country. But Marine Parade residents and many others urge me to stay on. They say the country and Marine Parade still need me.”

    He added that he will explain his decision at the GRC’s National Day dinner to be held on Aug 14.

    The PAP slate won 56.7 per cent of the vote against the National Solidarity Party (NSP) in 2011, which was the ruling party’s second-closest shave in a group representation constituency, after East Coast.

    It was also the first contest the constituency had seen since 1992 by-election, and the first time the vote share in its history had fallen below 70 per cent.

    The constituency is also shaping up for a tough fight in the next hustings, with both the Workers’ Party (WP) and NSP having said they intend to contest there. The Straits Times also understands that this was one of the flashpoints at an opposition meeting on Monday, with neither party wanting to budge.

    Also on Tuesday, Mr Tan posted about the Joo Chiat National Day dinner on his Facebook page: “Appreciate the hospitality shown to both ESM and myself! We’d miss Charles but welcome Edwin Tong who will get to know all of you better, along with us in the team.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

     

  • Madrasah Students Need Not Pay National Examination Fees Effective This Year

    Madrasah Students Need Not Pay National Examination Fees Effective This Year

    Madrasah students will not need to pay national examination fees starting this year, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim said today.

    His announcement comes after Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced in his Budget speech last month that the Education Ministry would waive fees for national examinations for Singapore citizens studying in Government-funded schools.

    The six full-time madrasahs, or Islamic religious schools, are largely funded by the Muslim community, and are not covered by this waiver.

    But Dr Yaacob said on Thursday that the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth would assist the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) so that madrasah students will not need to pay these fees too.

    Besides full-time madrasahs, Muis is also working to strengthen part-time Islamic education and make it available to more people in the Muslim community.

    A home-schooling programme, Kids aLive (Learning Islamic Values Everyday) Home Edition, for parents to teach their children about Islam at home was launched in 2014.

    And more than 16,000 students were enrolled in its aLive programme, for children between seven and 16 years old, in mosques last year. This year, Muis plans to start extra sessions on weekdays and weekends, and extend the operating hours for these centres, aiming for a 12 per cent increase in spaces within the next year.

    Meanwhile, to meet rising demand for its Adult Islamic Learning (Adil) classes, Muis has also increased the number of participating mosques to 13, and will develop eight more modules later this year.

    Self-help group Mendaki, too, is stepping up its education outreach efforts to benefit more in the Malay/Muslim community, including having more space in its tuition and homework supervision programmes and giving more guidance to parents of children aged six and below.

    It will be expanding its flagship programme, the Mendaki Tuition Scheme (MTS), which has benefited over 180,000 students since it started in 1982.

    Last year, about 10,000 students enrolled in its 50 centres islandwide. This year, it will set up MTS centres in six more mosques here to make the programme more accessible, among them Al-Ansar Mosque in Bedok, Al-Iman Mosque in Bukit Panjang and Al-Mawaddah Mosque in Sengkang.

    Mendaki will also pilot a mentoring scheme at four of its MTS centres to counsel lower secondary students and help them plan their future, said Dr Yaacob, and aims to have 15 Mendaki Homework Cafes up and running this year – up from two in 2013.

    It also recognises the need to lay a strong foundation for children in their early learning years, and will provide greater support for parents with children aged six and below.

    It will, for instance, develop a toolkit and a curriculum to help parents develop their child’s learning capabilities during the early years.

    Adults will not be left behind. Mendaki’s training arm, Mendaki Sense, will design programmes that tap on schemes under the SkillsFuture initiative, which helps people master skills throughout their career.

    Mendaki is also looking to boost financial literacy among families by working with national financial education programme MoneySense.

    Dr Fatimah Lateef (Marine Parade GRC) also asked for an update on mosque kindergartens. Dr Yaacob said there are 18 such kindergartens, with about 2,600 pupils enrolled. This year, Muis and Mendaki will study ways to further strengthen these kindergartens.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com