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  • Calon PAP Jurong GRC Rahayu Mahzam Beri Jaminan Teruskan Kerja Keras Halimah Yacob

    Calon PAP Jurong GRC Rahayu Mahzam Beri Jaminan Teruskan Kerja Keras Halimah Yacob

    Calon Melayu PAP di GRC Jurong, Rahayu Mahzam memberi jaminan kepada para penduduk bahawa beliau akan meneruskan kerja keras yang sudah diusahakan oleh Cik Halimah Yacob di kawasan undi tersebut.

    Sepanjang empat hari lalu, Cik Rahayu Mahzam berkempen di kawasan Bukit Batok East, yang sebelum ini di bawah jagaan Speaker Parlimen, Halimah Yacob.

    Pagi tadi, Cik Rahayu bertemu dengan para penduduk di tiga kedai kopi di Toh Guan Road.

    Menurut Cik Rahayu, antara keprihatinan yang diutarakan oleh penduduk di kawasan undi ini, ialah infrastruktur dan kewangan.

    “Saya ingin lihat bagaimana kita boleh cuba dapatkan satu jaringan masyarakat yang lebih peduli, sebab dalam kalangan penduduk di Bukit Batok East, ada yang mungkin lebih bernasib baik dan mungkin yang tidak. ^Dan juga ada di kalangan mereka, belia yang saya rasa boleh dilibatkan dalam kerja kemasyarakatan jadi mereka semua dapat saling membantu,” kata Cik Rahayu.

    Cik Rahayu sudah melakukan lawatan bertemu penduduk di Bukit Batok East Ave 4, Burgundy Crescent dan Jalan Selanting.

    Menurutnya, rata-rata penduduk menyambut beliau dengan baik, hasil rekod prestasi Cik Halimah.

    “Puan Halimah telah melakukan kerja yang amat keras di sini jadi ramai penduduk yang gembira dengan apa yang telah dilakukan oleh parti ini. Apa yang mungkin menjadi satu cabaran adalah mereka risau tentang sama ada keadaan ini akan berterusan.

    “Dan ini adalah sesuatu yang saya harus usahakan untuk pastikan mereka rasa yang saya boleh lakukan apa yang Puan Halimah telah lakukan dan membina atas apa segala projek yang telah beliau buat di sini,” ujar Cik Rahayu.

    Cik Rahayu berkata, sepanjang kempen ini, calon-calon Melayu PAP yang lebih berpengalaman banyak membimbing calon-calon baru, dengan berkongsi perangsang dan nasihat.

    Menurutnya, walaupun kadangkala timbul isu atau komen-komen tertentu,mereka saling mengingatkan satu sama lain supaya fokus kepada objektif utama iaitu membantu masyarakat.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Halimah Yacob To Co-Anchor PAP Team In Marsiling-Yew Tew GRC

    Halimah Yacob To Co-Anchor PAP Team In Marsiling-Yew Tew GRC

    The People’s Action Party announced today (Aug 21) that first-term Members of Parliament Alex Yam and Ong Teng Koon will be contesting in new Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Representation Constituency, alongside team co-anchors Lawrence Wong and Mdm Halimah Yacob.

    Mr Yam’s ward was carved out from Chua Chu Kang GRC into Marsiling-Yew Tee in the recent electoral boundaries review exercise, as was Mr Ong’s Woodgrove ward from Sembawang GRC.

    Earlier last week, Mr Wong, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, announced that he would co-anchor the team with three-term MP Halimah Yacob, who will be moving to Marsiling-Yew Tee from Jurong GRC.

    Mr Wong also said the division of boundaries and finding a place for him to operate within the entire GRC may be sorted out after the election. Mr Wong himself will be new to the constituency, having moved over from West Coast GRC.

    Mr Yam and Mr Ong are expected to continue helming their respective wards while Mdm Halimah is expected to take over Marsiling from Mr Hawazi Daipi, who is retiring from politics.

    At a press conference held at a void deck in Marsiling to confirm the PAP’s slate of candidates, Mr Wong said his team, with two incumbent MPs and two new MPs, brings together continuity and change, and youth and experience.

    Ahead of the PAP press conference, the candidates mingled with residents and served up food as musicians entertained the crowd that had gathered at the void deck of Blk 3, Marsiling Drive.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Lawrence Wong And Halimah Yacob To Co-Anchor Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    Lawrence Wong And Halimah Yacob To Co-Anchor Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    The new Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC will be anchored by two MPs – Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Mr Lawrence Wong and Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob.

    This was announced by Mr Wong during a visit to the constituency on Thursday with Madam Halimah.

    The minister, who is a first term MP, and Madam Halimah are slated to move from West Coast GRC and Jurong GRC respectively to the new constituency for the upcoming general election.

    Mr Wong said he had asked Madam Halimah to join him in leading the new GRC because of her strong track record as an MP. “So I know how effective she is and I’ve much to learn from her,” he added.

    Madam Halimah said they would be able to complement each other, adding that Mr Wong would bring with him his strengths and capabilities.

    Although Mr Wong said the full line-up of MPs that the People’s Action Party (PAP) will be fielding in the four-member Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC will only be revealed later, he hinted that it will likely comprise Madam Halimah and himself, as well as MPs Alex Yam and Ong Teng Koon.

    “So the only new faces are Madam Halimah and myself,” he said. “And there are two existing incumbent MPs, Alex Yam and Ong Teng Koon, so we hope this is likely to be the team for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC.”

    Both Mr Yam and Mr Ong have expressed interest in continuing to serve in their respective wards which have since been redrawn into the new GRC.

    Over the past weeks, Mr Wong and Madam Halimah have been walking the ground, attending constituency events and making house visits in the area.

    Madam Halimah said she has done “a fair amount of groundwork in Marsiling”, having visited about 20 blocks of flats.

    The PAP team, added Mr Wong, will build on the work done by the incumbent MPs in their wards, which are currently part of Sembawang GRC and Chua Chu Kang GRC. “We will put forward our manifesto when it’s ready,” he said.

    The GRC is now made up of three divisions – Marsiling, Yew Tee and Woodgrove – but it will have four MPs. This is because wards in the GRC have grown over the years, “so a fourth MP will help better serve residents there,” added Madam Halimah.

    Resident Philip Ong welcomed the two new MPs to the constituency. “It looks like a good mix,” said the 48-year-old technician. “Madam Halimah can bring her wisdom and experience to help and Mr Wong is a minister who is in charge of youth issues.”

    Housewife Normah Ahmad, 50, said: “It’s nice to see a Malay woman in the role of a leader too.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Potential New PAP Candidates Present At People’s Association Event

    Potential New PAP Candidates Present At People’s Association Event

    SINGAPORE: A People’s Association event celebrating senior citizens in the Aljunied Cluster, comprising Aljunied GRC and Hougang SMC, was held on Saturday (Nov 15) evening.

    Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob graced the event, alongside former PAP leaders Lim Boon Heng and Zainul Abidin Rasheed.

    News faces touted as potential PAP candidates for Aljunied and Hougang were also present.

    They include:

    • Banker Chua Eng Leong, who is chairman of Eunos PAP branch
    • K Muralidharan Pillai in Paya Lebar; he is a lawyer by profession
    • Chan Hui Yuh in Serangoon, who works in a family business
    • Victor Lye in Bedok Reservoir-Punggol
    • Kahar Hassan, who took over the Kaki Bukit branch chairmanship from Ong Ye Kung
    • Lee Hong Chuang, who took over as chairman of the Hougang branch, replacing Desmond Choo

    Former PAP Chairman Mr Lim said it is still early to say if the new faces will be fielded as candidates as this depends on how they can work the ground. He said two key factors the party is looking out for are the ability to understand people and resolving problems.

    “Any lesson that I would learn from the past or the trend in the past few elections is that people want to have representatives in Parliament who are close to them. In terms of ability, of course it’s good if a person can make it beyond an MP to become an office holder,” said Mr Lim. “But what is more important to residents is: ‘Is he close to me, does he understand me? Can he effectively bring my issues before the government and get those issues redressed?’”

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • PAP New Face: Research scientist Dr Ismail Muhamad Hanif Seen With Halimah Yacob

    Dr Ismail Muhamad Hanif. Dr Ismail, 35, was seen mingling with Bukit Batok East residents on Sunday morning. — FILE PHOTO: NUS ALUMNI OFFICE

     

    BY NUR ASYIQIN MOHAMAD SALLEH

    Research scientist Dr Ismail Muhamad Hanif, 35, was seen mingling with Bukit Batok East residents on Sunday morning as Jurong GRC MP Madam Halimah Yacob took Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong on a walkabout around shops in the area.

    Dr Ismail, who is married, has been a member of the Tampines West Citizens’ Consultative Committee (CCC) since 2009 and had helped out in the last general elections.

    Madam Halimah told reporters that she had met Dr Ismail at a community event and invited him to volunteer in her ward.

    She declined to say if he was a potential PAP candidate for the next polls, only that he was part of Bukit Batok East’s Volunteer Induction Programme, which was started in 2010.

    Source: The Straits Times