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  • Faisal Manap: Workers’ Party Lebih Bersedia, 5 GRC Dijangka Menjadi Medan Pertarungan Panas

    Faisal Manap: Workers’ Party Lebih Bersedia, 5 GRC Dijangka Menjadi Medan Pertarungan Panas

    Sekurang-kurangnya lima GRC dijangka hangat dipertandingkan dalam pilihan raya 11 September ini.

    Empat GRC tersebut turut diwakili calon Melayu PAP.

    Satu-satunya kawasan undi baru dalam pilihan raya kali ini – GRC Marsiling-Yew Tee, mengambil sebahagian besar kawasan GRC Chua Chu Kang dan Sembawang.

    Pasukan PAP diterajui bersama Menteri Kebudayaan, Masyarakat dan Belia, Encik Lawrence Wong, dan Speaker Parlimen, Cik Halimah Yacob.

    Mereka berdepan Parti Demokratik Singapura (SDP) pimpinan John Tan.

    SDP kalah kepada PAP di GRC Sembawang pada pilihan raya umum 2011.

    “Berikan kita peluang untuk terus berkhidmat dan kita akan bekerja dengan keras dan memberikan lebih banyak sumbangan kepada penduduk Marsiling-Yew Tee,” kata Cik Halimah.

    Cik Halimah juga memberitahu pasukannya akan mengeluarkan sebuah manifesto yang mengandungi rancangan-rancangan mereka untuk kawasan undi tersebut.

    Beliau menjelaskan, “Dalam manifesto tersebut ada dua bahagian. Satu daripadanya ialah rancangan pembaikan dari segi infrastruktur dan keadaan sekitaran bagi penduduk kita dan bukan sahaja program-program ‘hardware’ tetapi ‘software’  di mana program-program untuk membantu anak-anak, keluarga kurang berkemampuan dan sebagainya,”

    GRC Tanjong Pagar pula tidak pernah ditandingi sejak lima pilihan raya lalu.

    Kali ini hampir 130,000 pengundinya boleh membuat pilihan antara pasukan PAP dan pencabarnya Parti Warga Diutamakan (SingFirst).

    Pasukan PAP dipimpin ketua pergerakan buruh, Menteri di Pejabat Perdana Menteri Chan Chun Sing, 45 tahun.

    SingFirst, sebuah parti politik baru diketuai Encik Tan Jee Say, mantan calon Presiden.

    Satu lagi diramalkan sebagai antara ‘kerusi panas’ pilihan raya kali ini ialah pertarungan bagi GRC Jalan Besar pimpinan Menteri Perhubungan dan Penerangan Dr Yaacob Ibrahim.

    Pada pilihan raya lalu, GRC ini membentuk sebahagian GRC Moulmein-Kallang dan meraih 58.55 peratus undi menentang WP.

    Pasukan Dr Yaacob sekali lagi ditentang WP yang dipimpin pensyarah politeknik L Somasundaram.

    “Kami berempat berterima kasihmenjadi calon bagi GRC Jalan Besar.Undilah PAP parti yang bekerjasama untuk kepentingan anda, parti yang bekerjasama untuk anda demi untuk Singapura,” jelas Dr Yaccob.

    GRC East Coast juga sekali lagi menjadi medan pertarungan antara pasukan PAP dan WP.

    Pada 2011, pasukan PAP meraih 54.83 peratus undi menentang WP yang menampilkan Gerald Giam dan Png Eng Huat.

    Ia merupakan kemenangan paling tipis bagi PAP dan Encik Giam mendapat kerusi di Parlimen sebagai AP Tanpa Kawasan Undi.

    Pasukan PAP yang mempertahankan GRC itu dipimpin Menteri Tenaga Manusia Lim Swee Say dan turut dianggotai Menteri Negara Pertahanan merangkap Pembangunan Negara, Mohd Maliki Osman.

    Pasukan PAP di Aljunied pula siap sedia berjuang bagi mencabar lawannya dari WP.

    Diketuai AP veteran Yeo Guat Kwang, pasukan muka baru ini bertekad untuk menawan semula GRC Aljunied.

    WP juga menyatakan hasrat ingin kekal mempertahankan kerusi itu dengan pasukan ‘A’ mereka.

    “Dengan pengalaman yang ditimba, kami lebih bersedia, berkomited dan bersemangat untuk berkhidmat kepada anda semua kali ini,” jelas Faisal Manap, Calon WP bagi GRC Aljunied.

    “Pengundi-pengundi Aljunied, berilah kami kesempatan untuk berkhidmat untuk anda. Rakan-rakan kami akan bekerja keras untuk kamu, bagi kamu, demi untuk Singapura,” kata Shamsul Kamar, Calon PAP bagi GRC Aljunied.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Workers’ Party MPs Questions PR Policy And Edusave Awards To Full-Time Madrasah Students

    Workers’ Party MPs Questions PR Policy And Edusave Awards To Full-Time Madrasah Students

    In the Parliamentary sitting on 13 April, WP MPs raise questions ranging from the number of foreign students offered permanent residency, reviewing/extending Edusave awards to full-time Madrasah students, effectiveness of AVA’s monitoring and warning systems for fish farmers, ‘net neutrality’, data on Eldershield, and more.

    Questions for Oral Answer:

    *6. Mr Yee Jenn Jong: To ask the Minister for Transport (a) whether Singapore-based airlines have a two-person cockpit rule or other systems to protect the cockpit; and (b) whether their pilots are required to be subjected to periodic psychological tests.

    *9. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs (a) what is the weight limit on the transport of gold and other precious metals in and out of Singapore by individual travellers; (b) whether diplomats are exempt from this limit, if any; (c) whether the Police is aware of a diplomat carrying up to 27 kg of gold bars in his luggage on a flight out of Changi Airport in March 2015; and (d) what measures are in place to ensure that diplomats do not abuse their diplomatic immunity to carry precious metals, drugs or weapons in and out of Singapore in their luggage.

    *15. Ms Lee Li Lian: To ask the Minister for Transport whether there are plans to extend bicycle crossings at traffic junctions to other parts of Singapore.

    *16. Mr Png Eng Huat: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs from 2001 to 2014, what was (i) the number of foreign students who were offered and who had accepted permanent residency when they reached Secondary 1 or later; (ii) the number of such student PRs who had gone on to become citizens; and (iii) the number of such students who had renounced their PR or citizenship.

    *17. Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap: To ask the Minister for Education whether the Ministry will consider reviewing and extending the Edusave Awards to full-time madrasah students.

    *20. Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Development (a) what is the number of families that have come under the Home Ownership Plus Education (HOPE) scheme since its implementation in 2004; (b) what is the percentage of families under HOPE that have managed to keep their number of children at two; (c) whether the Ministry can provide an update on the profile of families that have broken the conditions of the scheme and their plight; and (d) whether the Ministry considers the HOPE scheme a success.

    *23. Mr Yee Jenn Jong: To ask the Prime Minister whether the Ministry is working with banks to improve SMEs’ access to foreign exchange hedging products, including renminbi hedging.

    *24. Mr Yee Jenn Jong: To ask the Minister for National Development (a) whether AVA’s real-time monitoring and early warning systems are effective in alerting fish farmers ahead of time of the occurrence of harmful algal blooms to prevent massive fish kills; (b) whether there is a need to relocate fish farms away from areas prone to algal blooms; and (c) whether persistent algal blooms have made it difficult for Singapore to achieve its target of 15% of fish supply to be from local sources.

    *26. Mr Png Eng Huat: To ask the Minister for National Development when will plans to develop Hougang Town Centre under the Remaking Our Heartland programme announced in 2011 be released given that the projected timeline for the development site to be launched is three years.

    *27. Ms Lee Li Lian: To ask the Minister for National Development (a) whether the revision to the Code on Accessibility in the Built Environment requiring 1.5 metres of minimum clearance along common corridors applies to buildings built before 1 April 2014; (b) if so, whether there are plans to align SCDF guidelines with this; and (c) if not, whether Town Councils will need to have two sets of by-laws for flats built before and after 1 April 2014.

    *31. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Communications and Information with regard to ‘net neutrality’ (a) whether Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or network operators are allowed to (i) throttle legitimate Internet content, albeit without rendering them unusable and still remaining above the threshold of IDA’s minimum Quality of Service (QoS) requirements; (ii) impose extra charges on consumers or providers of over-the-top (OTT) services like WhatsApp and Skype; and (b) whether there are any plans to introduce net neutrality regulations to prohibit discriminatory network management practices which negatively affect consumers’ experience when using legitimate Internet services.

     

    Questions for Written Answer

    3. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Trade and Industry (a) if he can provide an update on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations; (b) when is the Agreement expected to be successfully concluded; (c) what are the key obstacles that need to be overcome; (d) to what extent the TPP is likely to improve market access for Singapore-based firms in US, Japan and other markets; and (e) what are our economic agencies doing to prepare Singapore firms, especially SMEs, to take advantage of the improved market access that a successfully concluded TPP can bring.

    4. Mr Chen Show Mao: To ask the Minister for Trade and Industry whether the Ministry will consider monthly releases of services exports data so as to provide closer trend indicators as well as to help dampen the effects of fluctuations in monthly goods exports data.

    8. Mr Chen Show Mao: To ask the Minister for Health (a) what is the cumulative number of people who have received payments under Eldershield300, Eldershield400 and the Interim Disability Assistance Programme for the Elderly (IDAPE) respectively; (b) what is the cumulative number of Eldershield300, Eldershield400 and IDAPE recipients who were deceased before the end of their respective payout periods; and (c) what is the cumulative number of Eldershield300, Eldershield400 and IDAPE recipients who remained in need of assistance beyond their respective payout periods.

    13. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Manpower for each year since 2005 (a) how many CPF members have successfully applied for CPF withdrawals on each of the following medical grounds: (i) permanently incapacitated from ever continuing in any employment (ii) terminally ill with a life expectancy of 12 months or less (iii) suffering from a severely shortened life expectancy (iv) mentally incapable of handling and receiving monies (v) other reasons; (b) what is the proportion of successful applications which have been granted a full CPF withdrawal; and (c) how many applications have been rejected.

     

    Source: The Workers’ Party