TR EMERITUS

For the second time, I have read what Heng Swee Keat said. The conclusions that I took home with me is that he was defensive of his government's mediocrity and his cabinet colleagues' incompetency despite them drawing very fat political salaries from our people. Their incompetency and slackness are too many and I will just list... 

Ng Eng Hen apologized in Parliament today for the deaths of the 4 NS men during training in the last 17 months. This “Sorry” comes too late in the day to mollify the anger of Singaporeans for the loss of our Singapore sons. Where was he, Lee Hsien Loong or Halimah Yacob when Singaporeans grieved over the recent tragic death... 

I’ve often described S’pore as an as authoritarian state: example in Keeping power in a one-party state. But what does “authoritarian” mean? The answer is: the absence of democracy. Democracy, in turn, means a system in which free and fair elections determine who holds power. Thus the state must allow free expression...