WDA’s scheme to help PMEs ineffective
The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) referred to several professional conversion programmes (PCP) in its reply ("Efforts to enhance PMEs' employability"; June 11). The PCP for infocomm technology states that the candidate "must be newly hired and nominated by an eligible participating company for the PCP". PCPs...
Tharman, the centre may not hold anymore
From the poem “The second coming,” by William Butler Yeats, I quote, "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold," two lines which resonate with Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s allusion to able government forming a sort of core of society and centrifugal forces as “invisible hand[s] of society” that threatens to disrupt,...
Elites and the connected are treated more equal
The high cost of gas station lease and the petrol tax plus the COE and ERP have made life miserable for the consumers, the ordinary folks. It is all the root of PAP motto as reflected by *KY in “what is wrong with collecting more money” immortalized by Ngiam Tong Dow. When I asked my regular plumber what the cost is for...
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