Not owning a car is better quality living
One of the measures introduced in the 2013 Budget that will come down hard on the people is the control of car ownership. It hits the people in two ways, higher ARF, lower loan allowed and lesser time to repay. On face value many Sinkies aspiring to own a car as a convenient mode of transport will have red faces and veins protruding...
Democracy is dead
While many nations will not hesitate to proclaim that they are Democratic, indeed Democracy is the most reasonable and conceivable form of governance. This prompts us to understand the constitution of a Democratic method: that we trust some kind of institutional arrangement for aiming at a political decision through a series...
Lessons from Dubai
To further curb hiring of unskilled foreigners, the $650 levy for every worker beyond the approved number for a building project has been upped to $950. Has Armageddon been averted? Or are the pruning measures too late in the implementation? In "Dubai, The Story of the World's Fastest City" author Jim Krane writes that 95% of...
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