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  • Ismail Kassim: PAP Leaders Must Ask Themselves If They Are Cowards

    Ismail Kassim: PAP Leaders Must Ask Themselves If They Are Cowards

    To all PAP leaders, watch the Hollywood classic High Noon and ask yourself:

    Am I a coward?
    A craven coward,
    A coward till my grave

    This is the refrain from the theme song. In this film, a sheriff played by Gary Cooper deliberates on his dilemma: hand over his badge and leave town with his bride (Grace Kelly) or stay and face four just released gunmen screaming for his blood.

    He could have left office as planned, but he decided to face the challenge head-on, and only after despatching all four to the nether world did he go on his honeymoon.

    The same question can be asked of the PAP leaders. When faced with a challenge from TCB, instead of taking up the gauntlet as our great departed leader would have done, they resorted to a cowardly dodge to avoid a fight.

    Now, one after another, they come up with all kinds of rationalisation to make themselves look good.

    But it will all be in vain. The damage has been done; multi-racialism and meritocracy have been sacrificed on the altar of political convenience and the disunity among the people and between and within each ethnic group will only get worse with time.

     

    Source: Ismail Kassim

  • Jufrie Mahmood: Yaacob Ibrahim Must Stop Thinking The Malay Community Are Fools

    Jufrie Mahmood: Yaacob Ibrahim Must Stop Thinking The Malay Community Are Fools

    Dr Yaacob appeals to Malays to allow themselves to be made pawns in the PAP’s on going grand design to ward off any serious challenge to its absolute hold on all levers of power – at the expense of the community’s self worth and dignity.

    He then wayang by saying, “the Malay community is concerned not just about the president, but also Malay permanent secretary, Malay general ,,,, because we want to see representation across the entire Singaporean life”.

    Then he contradicts himself saying “but we believe it must come about because of meritocracy ……”.

    Good try Dr Yaacob. You think we are fools?

     

    Source: Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood

  • Faulty Sigma Elevators Worries Residence Of Bukit Batok Skyline II

    Faulty Sigma Elevators Worries Residence Of Bukit Batok Skyline II

    They are new HDB flats with many owners yet to move in, but the lifts at one particular block are already experiencing technical problems.

    On Wednesday, some homeowners had just collected their keys to one of the three blocks at Skyline II at Bukit Batok Street 22 and were looking forward to seeing their new home.

    But they found that one of the four lifts at the 33-storey building was not working properly.

    The lifts are from Sigma Elevator, which has been banned from tendering for new HDB projects since October 2015 due to poor performance and installation delays.

    On Wednesday, Facebook user Robin Zhang posted on Skyline I and II’s Facebook page for residents that there were problems when he was using lift D at Block 296B at 10.30am.

    He said while going up to the 18th storey, the lift stopped suddenly. After going up and down several times, it stopped at the sixth storey.

    When the door opened, he almost fell out as the lift had stopped about 20cm above the landing.

    He added: “I was very scared and decided to use the staircase instead.”

     

    The TNP team used lift C and when we were at the 16th storey, the lift indicated it was at the seventh storey.

    Once out of the lift at the 16th storey, we pressed the buttons several times but the doors did not open.

     

    When contacted, Sigma Elevator Singapore said: “We are working to gather more information as quickly as possible. There is nothing more important to Sigma than the safety of our employees, customers and the people who rely on our products and services every day.”

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • Surbana Sackings An Example Of Weak Unions In One-Party Rule

    Surbana Sackings An Example Of Weak Unions In One-Party Rule

    I read with sadness about the Surbana’s sacking of 54 workers. As an HR practitioner for 10 years, I’ve gone through many firing exercises.

    Businesses will always place its profitability above everything else. That’s nature.

    But what is not acceptable is that when it terminate employees under the guise of poor performance.

    From news reports, we know that the terminated workers weren’t given the due process for the termination.

    I believe this happens because our labour laws are inadequate such that a company as big as Surbana has the temerity to act in such a manner.

    From this episode, I hope Singaporeans start to realise that a strong union with bite is necessary.

    We need to start looking at matters that govern our lives and not allow politicians to dictate what is best for us.

    To a certain extent, a weak Union is the result of a one party rule which is bad for any nation as opposed to what Mr Ong Ye Kung recently espouses.

     

    Source: Khan Osman Sulaiman

  • Leon Perera: One-Party System Cannot Last Forever

    Leon Perera: One-Party System Cannot Last Forever

    In the coming century, I hope that my children and grand-children grow old and raise my great-grandchildren in Singapore long after I’m gone. But I fear that the government in our one party dominant system may fail one day. I fear that there will be no able, responsible and electable Opposition to take its place if that happens.

    A one party system makes it very hard for such an alternative party to exist. A one party system makes it likely that the ruling party – facing no viable competitors – will eventually lose its way. A one party system makes it likely that the ruling party will get away with changing the Constitution and changing Singapore to something other than a democracy, to keep itself in power forever. So that the system becomes practically uncontestable. What would stop them?

    Minister Ong’s recent comments are consistent with DPM Teo’s confirmation in Parliament on 9 November 2016 that the ruling party hopes to win 100% of all fully elected seats at the next GE.

    But can one party solve all of Singapore’s problems today and tomorrow? Can one party generate all the good ideas Singapore needs to keep going? Has any one party state on earth thrived for 100 years or more as a developed country?

    If a one party system cannot last forever, will there be another good party around when Singapore’s time for change comes, as it inevitably will? Or will a new, extremist party fill the political vacuum when a crisis hits and steer Singapore into the abyss?

    We can ignore these inconvenient truths and keep kicking the can down the road. Because it’s always easier to go with the flow.

    But I hope we won’t.

    The onus is on all of us who share such ideals to convince our fellow Singaporeans of these truths and inspire them to act. So that your great-grandchildren and mine will still proudly pledge themselves “to build a democratic society based on justice and equality”…and remember us for having done our part.

     

    Source: Leon Perera

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