TR EMERITUS

The recent goofing and ultimate drowning of an SCDF National Serviceman before his discharge is a timely reminder to the Commissioner SCDF in particular and the Home Affairs Ministry in general that they need to put more diligence in their work. Looking after an uniformed group is more than conducting workplan seminars and scenario... 

I refer to the article “Levelling the educational playing field in Singapore” (Straits Times, May 27). It states that “RI principal Frederick Yeo is encouraged that the chatty, articulate boy is one of several students who, despite coming from a low-income household, made it to RI. But even he admits the numbers are falling. … stressed... 

Defending his Ministry’s policy to impose parking charges for teachers, Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung said that the decision has to do with “self-discipline”. Earlier, an AGO report said that free parking for teachers is akin to a hidden subsidy that contravenes the “clean wage policy” set by the public service...