WP MPs Ignored A Resident's Complaint Of Darkness

The Independent, proxy of Workers' Party, has described a resident's repeated complaint to Aljunied-Hougang Town council on the darkness at the basketball court at Blk 135 Serangoon North Ave 2 plus the garden and barbecue pit surrounding it as a SILLY AND UNREASONABLE complaint.

Since when has RESIDENTS' SAFETY become SILLY AND UNREASONABLE?

The Independent also tells us that the WP MPs for Aljunied GRC IGNORED THE COMPLAINT as they went about spreading Christmas cheer.

Oh wow! WP MPs ignored the complaint.

Note: Leon Perera of Workers' Party is one of the founders of The Independent.

When the cock once again crows

Cock-a-doodle-do!

There goes Bernard Chen Jiaxi of Workers' Party taking credit for something in which he played no part.

The walkway was completed WEEKS AGO. MP Tin Pei Ling first post about the walkway in May 2015.

There was a statutory requirement for a power grid test and Ms Tin had been actively following up with LTA on this for the past WEEKS.

Don't you just hate it when you have been working hard to get something done and someone just come along and take credit for it when all the work has been done?

Photo credit: Fabrications About The PAP

Lights Off At Aljunied For Christmas

Lights off at Aljunied for Christmas. Ho ho ho!

It's been lights off since Thursday and Aljunied-Hougang Town Council has been informed - twice (on Thursday and today). Thus far, nothing has been done and it is still darkness at night.

Location: Basketball court at Blk 135 Serangoon North Ave 2 plus the garden , barbecue pit surrounding it - all in total darkness.
 

Is this safe?

RC has an activity organised tomorrow at the basketball court.

Will the lights be on by tomorrow for the activity to proceed? Is it deliberate lights off? it's already not the first time. The residents suffered lights off abruptly midway during Hwi Yoh Court RC lantern Festival celebration last year scaring children and elderly"

Spot The Economist For Terry Xu Of TheOnlineCitizen

Responding to the 30-member Committee on the Future Economy, Terry Xu of The Online Citizen published the names of all the 30 committee members and asked:

"Do you spot any economists amongst the committee to provide advice or feedback on whether would the [sic] recommendations be feasible?"

And he titled his article:
"Future economy of Singapore set by business owners and not economists?"

One does not need the title of an 'economist' in order to understand economics. One just needs to have the relevant degree, i.e. a degree in economics. After all, a degree in economics is the requirement for being an economist.

We did a random pick of the 30 members to check and found at least 4 people with degrees in economics.

And we haven't even gone through the whole list.

Tsk tsk! Trying so hard to criticise the government for everything and anything. It is not necessary to criticise if there is nothing to criticise.

Leon Perera And The Independent

For all its claim, 'The Independent' is not so independent after all when you look at "who's who'' on their board of directors.

Leon Perera of Workers' Party
Ex-SDP Member & ex-TOC Chief Editor Kumaran Pillai
Alfred Dodwell, the lawyer who defended Amos Yee
& PN Balji

Photo credit: Fabrications About The PAP

Can Civil Servant Participate In Political Activity?

Opposition supporters have always said that the civil service in Singapore is often biased against them.

What about this lady, Lisa Li Shi En?

She is from the Civil Service and she has been writing for alternative sites since 2010 and participated in high level WP meetings.  

Where is the bias? How come nobody said anything?

#WhatDoYouThink

Leon Perera Wants Retired Healthcare Professional To Joint-head Task Force

Following the findings of the Independent Review Committee (IRC) on the unusual and unfamiliar Hepatitis C cluster at SGH, a task force headed by Minister of State Chee Hong Tat has been formed to plug gaps highlighted by the IRC

Among other things, the task force will study 'best practices' from the international arena to strengthen Singapore's ability to detect and respond to 'uncommon and unusual infections'.

In response to the formation of the task force, Leon Pereira of Workers' Party suggested that a retired healthcare professional be appointed as joint head of the task force to 'ensure that recommendations are formed from a perspective of sufficient independence from the existing organisation structure'.

Does that make sense? Existing organisational structure will prevent the task force from learning from best practices in the world?

Dr Tan Wu Meng, an MP for Jurong GRC, said that however well-meant, nothing in WP's proposals "would help our healthcare workers diagnose outbreaks better, detect atypical infections sooner, or sense uncommon problems more clearly".

Independence is a good thing. Workers' Party could have saved us lots of taxpayers' money if they had allowed for independent accountants to help them examine their books and recover whatever money that has been lost instead of using their full resources to mount a vigorous defence against the appointment of INDEPENDENT accountants.

Transparencey: The Double Standard Of Workers' Party

 Workers' Party is the fine example of a double standard party which makes them insincere and hypocrites.

They want to hold others to transparency. Yet they are themselves anything but transparent.

Recall how Sylvia Lim told their own auditors who requested for information, that they did not have the right to know. And recall too how she said they would use their full resources to mount a resistance against the appointment of independent accountants to look into their books to recover lost money. Why the resistance?

High court judge Quentin Loh even used the Latin phrase "suppressio veri suggestio falsi" (suppressing the truth to give the impression of something that is not true) to describe Sylvia Lim. Essentially he called her as a liar.

What does lawyer Dennis Tan have to day to all these? Does he not think that WP must themselves first be transparent?

Then they demanded for a COI to be convened for the Hep C cluster at SGH but refused to carry out a forensic audit of their own messy accounts to make things right.

Such is the state of the party.

Photo credit: Fabrications About The PAP

David Marshall Would Be Ashamed Of Workers' Party

David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister from 1955 to 1956 founded the Workers' Party in 1957. Four years later in 1963, he quit the party after being played out by some party members and subsequently, when invited by J B Jeyaretnam to rejoin the party, he refused.

Democracy, to David Marshall, means being a loyal opposition. It means not allowing mistakes to be swept under the carpet And that surely must include your own mistakes. It means doing things to improve 'the quality of life of the people'.

May we add also that a loyal opposition does not play politics.

David Marshall held his Meet-The-People sessions within a building, not in open spaces.

David Marshall would surely be ashamed if he knew that the party he founded and quit is, some 58 years later, holding their Meet-the-people sessions in open void decks when he could hold his in a room at a time when the party was in its infancy, small and definitely not as rich as it is today.

Once upon a time when Singaporeans were unaware of the fact that WP could actually rent the void deck space at concessionary rates similar to that which apply to charitable organisations, when Singaporeans mistakenly thought that PAP were allowed to use RCs for their MPS, WP was able to play their 'victim' card to their benefit.

Not anymore.

WP''s Management of AHPETC: It's Shambolic

“As the Court of Appeal pointed out,” says Mr Shanmugam, “they have no system of identifying the S&CC — who has paid and who hasn’t paid — as basic as that. It’s shambolic and it’s a serious state of affairs.”

When asked what he would like the outcome of the whole AHPETC saga to be, he says, “Tell the truth. Where did the money go? How much? What was the money spent on? Don’t play a game of smoke and mirrors. Just come clean and apologise for what has happened.

“Don’t pretend that nothing has happened. And make good the losses. People's money has been lost through poor conduct. Yes, it is politically damaging to admit it, but better to admit it, put the money back, take the necessary action, disclose all of the data, face the consequences … that is the way to do things.”

 http://six-six.com/article/ahpetc-shortfall-could-affect-residents-pockets-shanmugam

Town Council Management Report 2014 - Another Red for Governance

 Town Council Management Report (TCMR) for period April 2014 to March 2015.

AHPETC continues to score RED for corporate governance (for the 3rd consecutive year) and S&CC arrears (for the 4th consecutive year).

In May this year, Sylvia Lim told the court that AHPETC had enough funds to last until JUNE 2015.

The town council also had a dispute with FMSS over $3.5million owed to FMSS which, just before the general election, was withheld.

The judgement of the Appeal Court on the appointment of independent accountant to the WP-run town council also required the town council to make all necessary Sinking Fund transfers within 3 months from 27 November 2015.

It remains to be seen whether the town council will be able to meet all of its obligations to residents in estate management and cleanliness in this current financial year. 

 http://app.mnd.gov.sg/Newsroom/NewsPage.aspx?ID=6994&category=Press+Release&year=2015&RA1&RA2&RA3