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  • Damanhuri Abas: Here’s How By-Election Should Be Conducted For Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    Damanhuri Abas: Here’s How By-Election Should Be Conducted For Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    The Government must call a GRC By-election for MYT to be true to its stated desire to ensure equal Minority representation as it robustly claimed was the basis for having a reserved PE exclusive for Malays. Less it exposes its own hypocrisy to say one thing but do another for clear political interest. Enough of short-changing the Malays pretending to be benevolent when in truth they manipulate the rules and keep moving the goalpost for 52 years.

    If additional cost incurred for one is the concern as some commentators expressed, here is how to simply overcome that. They can always conduct the By-election together with the PE. It only involves MYT GRC and residence from the constituencies affected can go to the polls on that day to vote twice, both for a PE and the MPs for their GRC. Enough time to do so now. Imaginary problem solved. Lets have a By-Election in MYT together with the PE!!

     

    Source: Damanhuri Bin Abas

  • Tin Pei Ling: SCDF And Police Officers Who Attended To Aljunied Crescent Fire Are Heroes

    Tin Pei Ling: SCDF And Police Officers Who Attended To Aljunied Crescent Fire Are Heroes

    With (some of) our fire-fighting heroes! Many thanks for the quick and effective response from the SCDF and Police officers who came to put out the fire at Aljunied Crescent today! They were courageous and knew exactly what needed to be done. Affected neighbours of the burning unit were evacuated swiftly and the entire situation was under control very quickly. There is no casualty so far – thank goodness – and evacuated residents have returned home in batches. Kudos to our Home Team! 👍🏻

    #HomeTeam #SCDF #SingaporePoliceForce #Kudos#FireFightingHeroes

     

    Source: Tin Pei Ling 陈佩玲

  • 4 Year Old Girl’s Foot Got Stuck In White Sands Escalator, SCDF To The Rescue

    4 Year Old Girl’s Foot Got Stuck In White Sands Escalator, SCDF To The Rescue

    A four-year-old girl was taken to hospital after her right foot got stuck in an escalator at the White Sands mall in Pasir Ris on Friday (Aug 11) evening.

    The incident, which took place at around 9.30pm, saw the girl trapped in the escalator descending from level two to level one of White Sands.

    The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it sent a fire engine, two fire bikes, a Red Rhino and an ambulance to the scene.

    SCDF personnel rescued the girl, who was taken to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

    He added that the escalator would be closed until further notice.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Halimah Yacob Has Word Of Advice For NDP Bird Boy

    Halimah Yacob Has Word Of Advice For NDP Bird Boy

    The precocious Henry Park Primary School Pupil who made headlines for raising his middle finger at the camera during the National Day Parade on Wednesday has not only attracted the attention of netizens but has earned some advice from presidential hopeful Halimah Yacob, as well.

    Halimah – who has been dominating headlines herself after resigning from her elected MP role and from her seat as Speaker of Parliament to contest the reserved presidential election that has been mired in controversy – had this to say to the boy’s parents when she was asked about the boy in an interview with a local news website:

    “I have a word of advice for his parents, if I could.
    “I’m also a mother, I’m a mother. Maybe should just call aside the boy and tell him this is not the right thing to do, and explain to him!
    “I think that would be the ideal. The parents would come in, counsel him, and say “look this is not the right thing to do” and why. You need to explain why, you know.
    “I always feel that instilling values in young people is a job for parents. Because they are born, and the day they were born, they were with us. We have a duty to instill values in them, you see.
    “And so I think, that’s what the parents should do.”

    The establishment favourite hopeful also had the following words of wisdom for the boy himself:

    “You made a mistake, learn from it, and move on.”

    The boy is reportedly “deeply apologetic” for his actions, according to Henry Park Primary School’s principal who also told a local daily that the boy has been counselled.

     

    Source: www.theindependent.sg

     

  • Halimah Yacob: I Have Gone Against PAP

    Halimah Yacob: I Have Gone Against PAP

    Having been a People’s Action Party (PAP) MP for 16 years, Madam Halimah Yacob is aware that there are Singaporeans who question her ability to be non-partisan if she is elected president.

    “I know people have that concern because of my past affiliation with the PAP,” she told The Straits Times in an interview. “But I just want to say that the president has a duty first and foremost to Singapore and Singaporeans, and not to any party.”

    She also has the track record to prove her independence, noting that whether as a unionist or parliamentarian, she had not always toed the government line.

    An occasion she remembered clearly was when she abstained from voting on amendments to the Human Organ Transplant Act in Parliament in 2007.

    Changes tabled by then Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan would allow organ recipients to reimburse donors’ expenses if they wished.

    She was concerned that this would lead to poor people being persuaded to “sell” their organs.

    The party whip was lifted, and she abstained, sending a strong signal of her misgivings.

    She recalled: “I decided not to say yes. I didn’t ask the Health Minister how he felt, but I can still remember the expression on his face.”

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg