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  • Accountant Questions Sylvia Lim’s And AHPETC’s Accounting Practices

    Accountant Questions Sylvia Lim’s And AHPETC’s Accounting Practices

    As an Accountant, here’s my argument with you Sylvia Lim!

    You said “We emphasise that AHPETC has ensured that payments made to FMSS are in line with and within the budget provided under the tender awarded.”

    So that means when you awarded the contract, you MUST know that the Town Council will run into deficit, shouldn’t you ALERT your residents at some point in 2012-2014 and look for solution (which is to increase the TC rate again) instead of keeping quiet?

    You have failed to understand the very basic of budgeting!

    Next, you want to build a 1st world parliament, but you can’t even attract enough people to clean your town, have you asked yourself why?

    And the only MA who bid must be your supporter, wouldn’t you be able to negotiate with them since you know their rate is going to almost “bankrupt” your beloved Town and affecting no one else but only your dear supporters?

    What business logic is this?

    $300k flat professional fees?? That’s $25k per month! Why do they need to factor this in their cost before bidding for the job?

    Don’t you think 在情在理，you should be questioning them for your own people’s sake?

    And lastly I sincerely hope the cleaners employed by FMSS are paid at least 50% above the market rate as compared to all cleaners employed by PAP TC’s MA, since your MA is charging in accordance to the comparison, almost 50% more than other MAs, technically they must have bid at this rate due to cost roll up which means their cost must be higher.

    Don’t worry Sylvia Lim, MND’s letter will not be putting you in disadvantage position.

    Your supporters have compared this to the like of our Ministers’ pay and Our CPF scheme, so you have successfully convinced your supporter that you are a good opposition to vote into parliament. They will continue to support you de!

    Nothing will change their mind and simply we couldn’t be bothered to do that either.

    We are only interested in the people sitting on the fence!

    People who will ask, am I important if I am a resident of Aljunied?

    Do I want to vote in someone who cannot even run a TC well!

    So let’s leave it to the people in Singapore to judge whether have Workers’ Party run the TC well since GE2011!!!

     

    Source: http://sghardtruth.com

  • Three-Cornered Fight Shaping Up In Macpherson SMC Between PAP, WP And NSP

    Three-Cornered Fight Shaping Up In Macpherson SMC Between PAP, WP And NSP

    In a surprise twist, the single-seat ward of MacPherson might be set for a three-cornered fight after all, after the National Solidarity Party (NSP)’s Cheo Chai Chen said he will throw his hat into the ring on Nomination Day morning.

    Mr Cheo, 65, announced that he will stand in MacPherson when he arrived at Kong Hwa School to file his nomination papers.

    This means that MacPherson will likely see a three-cornered fight between Mr Cheo, the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) Tin Pei Ling, 31, and the Workers’ Party’s Bernard Chen, 29.

    Mr Cheo was an MP for Nee Soon Central from 1991 to 1997 under the Singapore Democratic Party.

    Ms Tin, the incumbent MP, came in for fierce criticism at the last election but appears to have turned the tide of public opinion in her favour.

    Addressing her supporters before filing her nomination papers, Ms Tin said: “Today is the day. We will put up a tough fight. We will put up our best and 101 per cent. Thank you for fighting this with me. Every vote counts we are the best party to do this.”

    The WP and the NSP have crossed swords over MacPherson in recent weeks, after both sides disagreed over who should contest in the single-member constituency.

    The NSP made several U-turns in the lead-up to Nomination Day over whether or not it would contest MacPherson.

    After initially agreeing to not contest the seat, the NSP then voted last month to field a council member there. The decision prompted acting secretary-general Hazel Poa to resign from the party.

    The party then flip-flopped on that controversial decision again, when Mr Steve Chia announced on social media that he would not contest MacPherson SMC or any other constituency in the general election, threatening to throw the party – already seemingly troubled by factional splits – into disarray.

    MacPherson was part of the Marine Parade GRC in the last election in 2011 and reportedly garnered the second-highest PAP vote share among the wards in that GRC.

    Candidates will file their nomination papers between 11am and noon on Tuesday (Sept 1).

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Calvin Cheng: Remember Chiam See Tong, Do Not Vote For Backstabber Chee Soon Juan

    Calvin Cheng: Remember Chiam See Tong, Do Not Vote For Backstabber Chee Soon Juan

    Mr. Chiam See Tong has retired from electoral politics.

    Mr. Chiam is a man respected even by his political rivals. He is a gentleman politician, who not only was never sued by the PAP, but even successfully sued PAP’s ministers.

    Mr. Chiam had it very tough from Mr. Lee Kuan Yew but also won his respect; Mr. Lee said that Mr. Chiam was a good MP.

    The respect was mutual and Mr. Chiam was given a special place during Mr. Lee’s funeral, even though he was an opposition leader.

    In the end, it wasn’t the PAP who hurt Mr. Chiam the most.

    It was his former protege Chee Soon Juan who broke his heart and robbed Mr. Chiam of the party SDP that he founded.

    Mr. Chiam was the one who groomed Chee, helped him and supported him. Yet Chee back-stabbed him and destroyed his mentor and benefactor.

    Nothing is more despicable.

    Younger voters at Holland-Bukit Timah GRC must take note. They will not remember but should be aware.

    Do you want a despicable man like Chee Soon Juan to be your MP?

    Remember Mr. Chiam See Tong when you cast your vote.

     

    Source: Calvin Cheng

  • Marine Parade Resident: I Am Unimpressed By Workers’ Party

    Marine Parade Resident: I Am Unimpressed By Workers’ Party

    Dear A.S.S,

    I refer to your posting http://www.allsingaporestuff.com/…/wp-introduces-final-batc… that concludes all the WP’s candidate introduction for this GE. I have been particularly curious, focusing on all the WP’s slate as I am a resident of Marine Parade in Marine Terrace. I remain proud that we boost the highest resale pricing for HDB flats in the whole of Singapore.

    Back to the topic on the WP team, I cannot help but deeply ponder over whether its better for our Marine Parade and Macpherson family to have the PAP or WP representing our interest after my brief encounter with Mr Bernard Chen of the WP. I accompanied a distant relative at Bedok North St 3 to see her Kaki Bukit MP 2 years back over some housing issues and did not get a good impression of either Mr Chen or Faisal Manap.

    Seated at table 2, I saw and overheard Mr Chen arguing unhappily with a Malay middle aged man at the next table over his job and welfare problems that I’m not sure if Mr Manap is unable or unwilling to help as the session ended with the resident expressing his disappointment at the WP for not being his “voice of conscience” so to say. Mr Chen then retorted by challenging the resident to see some Kahar Hassan instead if he could. Needless to say, my relative’s housing issue remains unresolved and calls/messages to a number Mr Manap provided on his call card went unanswered. I feel this is very unbecoming of an MP to be conducting himself in such an irresponsible manner.

    Now, I see a different picture when I head to Blk 80 Circuit Road Hawker Center to eat my favourite Nasi Lemak at Nurhajar Muslim Food who happens to be a grassroots leader. I see the poor of all races, warmly hugging and receiving the same from Ms Tin Pei Ling who is their fierce advocate. This sharply contrast what Mr Chen said by merely paying lip service exclaiming that residents’ small issues mattered to the WP but do a turtle when elected. Technically, can I trust that I will be able to approach the WP should I (touch wood) encounter any unforeseen problems in the future?

    Questions also remain for the entire WP strategy on candidate placement. I fail to see why Islamic religious teacher Mohamed Fairoz is favored over the strongest Malay candidate, Mr Firuz Khan for the “sure win” East Coast GRC. Wouldn’t it be more logical to place all your “big guns” in 1 place if you really want to win that area? What can Ustaz Fairoz bring to the table if elected, compared to Mr Khan who has a wider exposure and diversity, even bringing in the complex Royce Chocolate to our shores! And why is Ms He Ting Ru sent to battle ESM Goh? Wouldn’t it make more sense to field her in Macpherson than the coffin boy if WP is serious about gunning this area down?

    The Marine Parade candidates also do not seem to be united on the whole and I sense some internal cracks in their team. Mr Yee Jenn Jong and Khan is walking together in 1 group while Mr Terrance Tan and Ms He walks in another. Mr Dylan Loh is a constant MIA. Compare this with the PAP’s Marine Parade team who orderly takes turns to conduct ESM Goh’s MPS every Wednesday without fail in his absence.

    The above described situation of the WP should not be happening at all unless there is an intention and ulterior motive to deliberately allow only 1 team to win and not the others’. I see the same in the AHPETC issue that Ms Sylvia Lim has failed to answer. The questions boil down to: “Why does AHPETC seek to make Ms How rich and if this “alliance” has since broken down due to Ms Lim’s inability to continue with the contract. And is the Town Council “technically insolvent” as insinuated by the DPP. If so, then we should start asking ourselves if this is what we seek in a WP which is doing what it is accusing the PAP of.

    Sheh Begum
    A.S.S. Contributor

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • Chee Soon Juan: We’ll Run Constructive And Positive Campaign

    Chee Soon Juan: We’ll Run Constructive And Positive Campaign

    The flags and red balloons are ready. An army of tiny teddy bears, declaring “I Love SDP” on their T-shirts, is raring to go.

    The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) plans to run a “constructive” and “positive” campaign in this general election, says its secretary-general Chee Soon Juan.

    “We are not going to call names. We are not going to say PAP is bad, opposition is good,” he told The Straits Times in an exclusive interview. “We want to see change and you will see that from us. We’re going to be constructive, we’re going to be positive.”

    The SDP will champion a series of alternative plans on issues like housing, retirement savings and healthcare that it had laid out systematically in the run-up to the elections.

    “We want to appeal to (Singaporeans) that it is important to have not just an opposition – because you can have opposition there all the time throwing stones, being obstructive and so on – but having a competent opposition, a constructive opposition, a compassionate opposition,” he said, in reference to his party’s motto.

    This year will be the first time that Dr Chee is taking part in well over a decade. He was disqualified from the 2006 and 2011 general elections, on account of his bankruptcy after being sued for defamation by former prime ministers Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong.

    In 2012, his bankruptcy status was annulled after both men agreed to his offer of $30,000 as settlement.

    “What’s past is the past,” he said. “What’s important is our country’s future. I don’t hold grudges against the PAP,” he said.

    The 53-year-old former psychology lecturer, who has been with the party since 1992, has spent his years on the political backbench fine-tuning the party’s campaign operations. He declared: “Of all the elections I have been in, this is the one that we’ve been most prepared.”

    SDP launched its election campaign in January and followed that up the following month by presenting a paper entitled “A New Economic Vision” to reduce income inequality and increase innovation.

    One of the paper’s recommendations is to let retirees who want to receive their Central Provident Fund savings in instalments to opt into that arrangement, rather than for it to be mandatory as it is now.

    Another is to implement a minimum wage starting from $7 an hour, and then setting up a wage commission that would review the sum periodically.

    To lower the cost of housing, it proposes removing land cost from prices of Housing Board flats under a scheme which would bar these flats from being resold on the open market.

    The party is fielding 11 candidates this year, in Holland-Bukit Timah and Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs), as well as Bukit Panjang, Bukit Batok and Yuhua Single-Member Constituencies (SMCs).

    In the 2011 polls, it contested in Sembawang and Holland-Bukit Timah GRCs, as well as Bukit Panjang and Yuhua, winning 36.8 per cent of votes across all the wards.

    SDP caught public attention in 2011 by fielding investment adviser and former senior civil servant Tan Jee Say as well as retired army colonel Ang Yong Guan. Both have since left to start the Singaporeans First party.

    This time round, one of the SDP’s most high-profile candidates is Dr Paul Tambyah, a full professor at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com