This week, the Peoples’ Action Party’s (PAP) member of parliament (MP), Ang Wei Neng has become a little bit of a laughing stock for suggesting that the degrees conferred by local universities be “time-stamped”. The West Coast Group Representative Constituency (GRC) MP came up with the harebrained idea that local degrees expire after 5 years unless degree holders undertake upgrading courses!
Parliament on the Budget: What Parliament?
This week should have been a significant and promising one. A new Finance Minister has just delivered his first Budget speech. We are beginning to emerge from the pandemic. How is Singapore going to deal with the new world? The debate in Parliament has just begun and should have been exciting. The Leader of the Opposition was expected to be articulating the views of a segment of the population on, among other things, why the government should first exhaust other sources of revenue before slapping any GST hike. And Workers’ Party’s Pritam Singh did just that – and he has been doing that for years.
Section 377A: Govt is considering best way forward; will respect different viewpoints carefully: Shanmugam
Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said on Thursday (Mar 3) that the government is carefully considering the best way forward on Section 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalises sex between men but would not be proactively enforced.
Mr Shanmugam was responding to Mr Derrick Goh (PAP – Nee Soon GRC), who asked about the government’s position on Section 377A following a recent Court of Appeal ruling.
Police confirm video of severed leg at Blk 37 Margaret Drive is real, and classified death of man as unnatural, but don’t suspect foul play
A 15-second video, which The Independent SG has seen, showed a left leg that appeared to have been severed below the knee, lying near some garbage bins and scattered cardboard boxes.
The police also confirmed that the video is real, Lianhe Wanbao said. The clip, however, has been taken down, but not before it was viewed thousands of times. It was reportedly found on Margaret Drive at the Queenstown District.
Jamus Lim says he’s in favour of allowing cats in HDBs, but adds the government has ‘refused to budge’
Workers’ Party Member of Parliament Jamus Lim shared a photo of a white cat he had come across during a recent estate walk at Compassvale.
He noted in a March 5 Facebook post that the neighbourhood he visited at Northgate cluster, beside CompassOne mall, is a “well-maintained” one, and he had gotten to talk to long-time residents there.