Three months into the storm We’re more than three months into the storm now. Over the past months, we have seen a few rather ugly Singaporeans. We have seen ‘concerned’ individuals jumping up from all corners of the island creating noise, but not lifting a single finger to help in the nation’s efforts fighting the…
Three National Budgets in 48 Days Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat announced the Unity Budget on 18 February, with measures to cushion the impact of Covid-19. Subsequently, on 26 March, DPM Heng announced a supplementary Resilience Budget to further support families through the pandemic. An additional supplementary Solidarity Budget was…
We’re into Week 3 of the Circuit Breaker. The measures have no doubt been inconvenient, affecting many people’s livelihoods and coming at high cost to our economy. But the more strictly we observe the restrictions, the faster they will work, and the sooner we can ease up on them and go back to rebuilding our…
Amidst the chatter of Bus Captains having their Monday morning cups of kopi at the SBS Bus Depot, we spotted the cheery Mr Ng Swee Fatt – 64 year-old SBS Transit Bus Captain – who has been in this line for 41 years! More than 4 Decades as Bus Captain At 64, the sprightly Mr…