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  • Redzwan Hafidz Believes Good Parliament Requires Open, Healthy Debates

    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

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

    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.

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    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

  • Firuz Khan – Former Principal Of Pertapis A Self-Proclaimed Social Advocate

    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

  • DPP Chief Benjamin Pwee: Leaked Bishan-Toa Payoh Poster ‘One Of Many Drafts’

    DPP Chief Benjamin Pwee: Leaked Bishan-Toa Payoh Poster ‘One Of Many Drafts’

    A mock-up of an election poster for the joint opposition team standing in Bishan-Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency (GRC) has prompted talk that the line-up for the ward has finally been confirmed, but Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chief Benjamin Pwee on Thursday (Aug 27) maintained that a final decision has yet to be made.

    The poster circulating features two DPP members — Mr Pwee and party chairman Mohamad Hamim Aliyas — and three Singapore People’s Party (SPP) members, Mr Law Kim Hwee, Mr Abdillah Zamzuri and Mr Bryan Long. The SPP logo was also on the poster along with the tagline, “We hear You. We speak for You”.

    The three SPP members are new to politics, while Mr Pwee and Mr Hamim contested in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC in the 2011 General Election under the SPP umbrella.

    Responding to queries from TODAY, Mr Pwee said: “We have many, many different draft posters with different combinations of candidates because SPP hasn’t confirmed their candidates for the five-man team. We will leave it to SPP to officially announce the five-man team under the SPP banner on Nomination Day.”

    Asked if the parties agreed on the slate at the Elections Department on Thursday, SPP chairman Lina Chiam said the team has been formed, but declined to elaborate.

    “The team will be as strong, if not stronger than the previous one,” she said, referring to the team SPP fielded for the General Election in 2011.

    The two parties had agreed to jointly contest the five-member GRC under the SPP banner after each party initially indicated an interest to field their own teams, potentially setting up a three-cornered fight.

    Mr Pwee has been introducing potential candidates for the team, while the two parties have put out conflicting messages about the make-up of the combined slate at separate walkabouts they held. Mrs Chiam has expressed preference that the SPP holds three of the five spots on the team, while Mr Pwee has said the best five should fill the positions.

    Mr Pwee was part of SPP chief Chiam See Tong’s team in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC in 2011, but left the party one year later with Mr Hamim. The team took 43.07 per cent of the votes in 2011.

    The DPP-SPP team will go up against the People’s Action Party’s team made up of incumbents Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen and Senior Minister of State for Transport and Finance Josephine Teo, and new faces Mr Chee Hong Tat, Mr Chong Kee Hiong and Mr Saktiandi Supaat.

    Nomination Day is on Sep 1.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Elitism Quotes By PAP

    Elitism Quotes By PAP

    Small collection of quotes by PAP Ministers etc. on the “aristocracy mentality.” Thanks to readers for contributing some of these 🙂

    1. “Without a natural aristocracy. . .society will lose out.”
    — Lee Hsien Loong, 2015

    2. “I don’t respond to anything on The Real Singapore, which is a Facebook page and website written by morons, commented on by morons, and read and shared by morons.”
    — Calvin Cheng, 2014

    3. “The problem today is that PAP is a bit too elitist. . .they don’t feel for the people; overall, there is a lack of empathy.”
    — Ngiam Tong Dow, 2013

    4. “Maybe it made lesser mortals envious and they thought maybe he was a little bit boastful.”
    — Charles Chong, MP (on senior civil servant Tan Yong Soon’s S$46,000 five-week courseat a prestigious French cooking school)

    5. “I feel my own angst riding with the common people. But I suppose it’s good to get the feel from the ground every now and then, to connect with the peasantry.”
    — PAP Supporter and former Law Society employee, Nicholas-Seth Leong on his second MRT trip in 2012

    6. “Please, get out of my elite uncaring face.”
    — Wee Shu Min, scholar-daughter of former MP Wee Siew Kim

    7. “Remember your place in society before you engage in political debate… Debate cannot generate into a free-for-all where no distinction is made between the senior and junior party… You must make distinctions – What is high, what is low, what is above, what is below, and then within this, we can have a debate, we can have a discussion… people should not take on those in authority as ‘equals’.”
    — Former Foreign Minister George Yeo (1994)

    8. “They (top civil servants) get paid more, they’re highly educated, and they have bigger egos, bigger than any government employees I’ve met anywhere else in the world. It’s not good or bad, but they consider themselves superior to almost any government employee in the world.”
    — Renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith on civil servants’ ego in Singapore (2011)

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    9. “$600,000 a year is peanuts.”
    — Mrs. Goh Chok Tong (2004)

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    10. “We are our own check. The integrity of our leaders, of our MPs. That’s where the check comes from.”
    — Goh Chok Tong, 26 August 2015

    11. “I didn’t ask for it. That was the rate for the job, that’s what I accepted. You don’t like the rate, I can’t help it.”
    — President Nathan who doesn’t feel he needs to defend his high salary which was criticised extensively online. (The Sunday Times, 7 Aug 2011)

    12. “I don’t think that there should be a cap on the number of directorship that a person can hold.”
    — PAP MP John Chen who held 8 directorships

    13. “It’s not for the money because some of the companies pay me as little as $10,000 a year.”
    — PAP MP Wang Kai Yuen who held 11 directorships

    14. “One evening, I drove to Little India and it was pitch dark but not because there was no light, but because there were too many Indians around.”
    — Former PAP MP Mr Choo Wee Khiang, in a speech in Parliament in 1992

    15. “Smaller Medisave means you’re lazy and work less.”
    — Khaw Boon Wan (2013)

    16. “There’s no ladder to climb when the top rung is reserved for people with a certain name.”
    — Forbes (2009)

    17. “The elite’s privileged position in decision-making and exclusive formulation of organisational policies will only serve to reflect the elite’s self-interests instead of that of the masses.”
    — Classical elite theorist Robert Michels, via Soh Yi Da

    18. “Our funds are accountable to the government. I would not believe that transparencyis everything.”
    — PM Lee Hsien Loong, The Telegraph UK

    19. “As an anti-PAP retired civil servant, I can tell you that all the PAP media events are staged with great care. Every photo opportunity is meticulously planned. As a former government press officer told me, we must manipulate the message.”
    — TRE Comment

    20. “We are same — same but different.”
    — Lim Swee Say via Teo Chee Hean (2015)

    21. “The reality as societies developed is that leaders often come from the same social circles, educational backgrounds and even family trees.”
    — Lee Kuan Yew, 2011

    22. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”
    — Lee Kuan Yew, 1987

    23. “In short, the elite.”
    — Lee Kuan Yew, 1966

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    Source: https://jesscscott.wordpress.com