
Blackout of SDP’s news – again
Focus, a Chinese current affairs programme which airs on Friday evenings, ran a segment on the recent revisions proposed by the Ministerial Salary Review Committee. It mentioned that a few opposition parties released press statements to retort the recommendations. The programme then showed the websites of the Workers' Party,...

Have you ever heard of Make-up Pay for Ministers?
Have you ever heard of Make-Up Pay for Ministers before today (10 January 2012)? There was an article in the Straits Times, which mentioned the make-up pay for Ministers. Essentially, the Prime Minister has the discretion to pay new Ministers 90% of the difference between his previous private sector pay and the Ministerial pay....

Ministerial pay cut: Singaporeans cannot be fooled
"A million dollars for a minister seems a lot when compared with the salary of a worker. But $34 million for all the ministers and political office-holders is a tiny drop compared with the increase in GDP that a good government can produce." This was how Mr Goh Chok Tong defended the ministerial salaries in 2000. Two factors...
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