Tag: Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

  • Chee Soon Juan Set To Lead SDP Team In Holland-Bukit Timah GRC

    Chee Soon Juan Set To Lead SDP Team In Holland-Bukit Timah GRC

    Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan looks set to lead a team to contest the Holland-Bukit Timah group representation constituency, his first contest since sitting out the last two polls due to bankruptcy.

    His four-member team in the group representation constituency (GRC) is likely to comprise National University of Singapore Yong Yoo Lin School of Medicine professor Paul Tambyah, 50, compliance auditor Sidek Mallek, 55, and healthcare administrator Chong Wai Fung, 45.

    Likely standing in Bukit Panjang single-member constituency (SMC) is former Navy staff sergeant Khung Wai Yeen, 34, who is at the same nomination centre at Assumption Pathway School.

    The SDP team for the newly created Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC will comprise psychologist John Tan, 54; former political detainee Wong Souk Yee, 56; Mr Bryan Lim, 38, who heads the party’s ground operations unit; and Mr Damanhuri Abas, 45, who until last month was the director of an Islamic college.

    Former People’s Action Party member Sadasivam Veriyah, 63, is set to contest the Bukit Batok SMC. The former teacher is at the Keming Primary School, which is also the nomination centre for Yuhua SMC, set to be the battleground for sales director Jaslyn Go, 43.

     

    Sources: www.straitstimes.com

  • 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

  • Halimah Yacob Akan Bertanding Di Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    Halimah Yacob Akan Bertanding Di Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    Speaker Parlimen Cik Halimah Yacob akan berpindah ke Kawasan Undi Perwakilan Kumpulan (GRC) Marsiling-Yew Tee dan menerajui divisyen Marsiling di kawasan undi baru itu sebagai persiapan bagi pilihan raya umum akan datang.

    Pemindahan Cik Halimah, yang sebelum ini memimpin kawasan undi Bukit Batok East dalam GRC Jurong, disahkan oleh pemimpin akar umbi dan aktivis parti kepada Berita Harian (BH).

    Menurut salah seorang daripada mereka, yang enggan namanya disiarkan, Cik Halimah telah membuat pengumuman tersebut kepada pemimpin akar umbinya di Bukit Batok.

    Cik Halimah juga telah menghadiri acara sambutan Hari Raya Marsiling di Kelab Masyarakat Fuchun hujung minggu lalu. Acara tersebut dihoskan Setiauasaha Parlimen Kanan (Pendidikan merangkap Tenaga Manusia) Encik Hawazi Daipi, yang kini memimpin kawasan undi tersebut.

    Dalam pada itu, Menteri Kanan Emeritus Goh Chok Tong, yang telah menjadi Anggota Parlimen GRC Marine Parade sejak 1976, berkata beliau besar kemungkinan akan bertanding dalam pilihan raya akan datang.

    Dalam catatannya di laman Facebook Marine Parade, beliau turut mendedahkan senarai calon Parti Tindakan Rakyat (PAP) dalam GRC lima-anggota itu yang akan bertanding dalam pilihan raya, termasuk AP Melayu/Islam Profesor Madya Fatimah Lateef.

    Sementara itu, di kawasan undi Bukit Batok East, tempat Cik Halimah, dijangka diisi pendatang baru, Cik Rahayu Mahzam, 35 tahun, yang telah meninggalkan jawatannya dalam perkhidmatan awam selaku timbalan pendaftar bersama Mahkamah Syariah.

    Sejak kebelakangan ini, beberapa pegawai perkhidmatan awam telah meninggalkan jawatan mereka. Terkini Setiausaha Tetap Kedua (Perdagangan dan Perusahaan), Encik Chee Hong Tat telah meletakkan jawatan, sekali gus mencetus spekulasi beliau akan ditampilkan dalam pilihan raya akan datang.

    Menurut kenyataan Divisyen Perkhidmatan Awam di Pejabat Perdana Menteri semalam, tarikh akhir khidmat Encik Chee dalam perkhidmatan awam ialah pada 11 Ogos. Sebelum ini Encik Chee sering dilihat menghadiri acara kemasyarakatan di GRC Bishan-Toa Payoh.

    Dihubungi BH, Encik Chee enggan mengulas spekulasi itu namun berkata beliau berharap dapat diberi peluang untuk berkhidmat.

    Sebelum ini, pegawai polis kanan, Encik Melvin Yong, 43 tahun, yang aktif di kawasan undi Punggol North, telah meletak jawatan.

    Pegawai perkhidmatan awam dikehendaki meletakkan jawatan sebelum mereka menyertai politik dan lazimnya merupakan muka baru yang diperkenalkan oleh parti politik.

    Dalam pada itu, ketika dihubungi, Cik Halimah enggan mengulas meskipun tidak menyangkal berita tersebut.

    “Pergerakan calon itu adalah keputusan parti dan sesuatu yang biasa. Di mana saja saya disuruh berkhidmat untuk rakyat, saya akan berusaha sedaya upaya,” ujar beliau.

    Cik Halimah, 61 tahun, yang menjadi AP pada 2001, akan menyertai Menteri Kebudayaan, Kemasyarakatan dan Belia, Encik Lawrence Wong, yang telah mengumumkan akan berpindah ke GRC Marsiling-Yew Tee dari GRC West Coast.

    GRC tersebut turut merangkumi sebahagian daripada GRC Sembawang dan GRC Chua Chu Kang yang dipimpin Encik Alex Yam dan Encik Ong Teng Koon. Kededuanya telah melahirkan harapan agar dapat terus berkhidmat di kawasan undi masing-masing.

    GRC Marsiling-Yew Tee mempuyai sekitar 107,527 pengundi dengan kawasan undi Marsiling didiami sekitar 30,000 penduduk, 27 peratus daripada mereka merupakan penduduk Melayu. Perangkaan itu lebih tinggi daripada purata nasional.

    Marsiling juga mempunyai jumlah penduduk berendapatan rendah yang ramai, dengan sekitar 1,000 unit flat sewa dan hampir sepertiga daripada blok di situ merupakan flat tiga bilik.

    Pemindahan Cik Halimah ke kawasan undi Marsiling bermakna Encik Hawazi dijangka berundur pada pilihan raya akan datang. Encik Hawazi, 61 tahun, dilantik AP dan berkhidmat di GRC Sembawag sejak 1996.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • Lawrence Wong To Contest In Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    Lawrence Wong To Contest In Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong on Saturday (Aug 1) announced that he will represent the People’s Action Party (PAP) to contest in the new Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC.

    This means Mr Wong will leave his Boon Lay ward in West Coast GRC for the upcoming General Election.

    “The past four years have been wonderful for me in Boon Lay and I want to thank all the residents of Boon Lay for their friendship and also for the guidance they have given me over these past four years,” he said to reporters at a grassroots event at the Sports Park at Woodlands Avenue 1.

    In the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee’s report released last week, Marsiling-Yew Tee became a newly formed four-member GRC while West Coast GRC was downsized from a five-member GRC to a four-member one.

    “What’s important for me now is to spend time here, get to know residents, get to understand all of them, their families, their concerns and their aspirations,” Mr Wong said.

    Photo: Kenneth Lim

    Following the announcement, Sembawang MP Ong Teng Koon said he would like to contest in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC as well. “We’ve known the residents for so long, they’ve almost become friends and family … And hopefully I’ll be given a chance to stand here, to work with Minister Lawrence Wong, a very popular minister, and hopefully we can create something even better for Marsiling-Yew Tee.

    “I’m the MP for Woodgrove, Mr Hawazi Daipi is the MP for Marsiling, Alex Yam is the MP for Yew Tee, and now Minister Lawrence Wong is here, that’s as much as I know. But as you know, it’s PM’s prerogative, to deploy anyone up to the last moment, so it’s PM’s choice; it’s the party’s choice,” he added.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com