Tag Archives: Town Councils

A 52-year-old self-employed woman living with her 75-year-old mother at Block 241 Bukit Panjang Ring Road was so irritated with the second-hand smoke coming into her HDB flat that she decided to note down details of every time she smelt the second-hand smoke. She discovered that her neighbor smokes about …

Blackouts, leftover rubbish, discarded bulky items and high rise littering of tampons with blood in them are a frequent sight in MacPherson, according to a reader.

Singapore is well-known for our intolerance towards abuse of power. As such, all political leaders, PAP or opposition, should be scrutinized for lapses in their fiduciary duties, on the basis of AGO reports and taken to tasks. People's power should eradicate all forms of intimidation, bullying and covering up by those in the corridors of power. We must take a stand!

It has just been announced that as part of efforts to to improve lift safety and reliability, a dashboard management system jointly developed by town councils managed by the People's Action Party (PAP) is expected to be launched later this month. As the first sentence broadly hints at, this system will only be launched in areas that are under the PAP town councils. Why create this guise of working for the people under the management of Town Councils? Can't the government just roll out the lift management system under the HDB umbrella, so that all Singaporeans will benefit? After all, this system are going to be built using taxpayer's money, right? Mist likely, using this project as saying it was jointly developed by PAP town councils will allow them the right to just place the system in PAP Town Council's wards. Is this some sort of punishment for the people who voted the PAP out in the other Town Council?

You see – the latest Town Council Management Report (TCMR) FY2015 had all the town councils scoring “green” for “lift performance”. How can this be – when there have been so many reports of frequent lift breakdowns, people getting injured or killed, resulting in the imposition of an additional 14 per cent of the Service and Conservancy Charges (S & CC) to the sinking fund (increase in S & CC)?

To help Town Councils with their operating needs and long-term capital expenditure requirements, MND will provide additional grant support to Town Councils in the following ways:

The deadline of 31 January for Sigma to fix their faulty lifts have come and gone. So far, the company have not been able to solve all the old issues, and in recent weeks, more new cases of lifts continued to break down have emerged. As the deadline had passed, both HDB and Sigma had remained silent on whether the issues had been resolved. So what now? If these happened in opposition wards, confirm opposition MPs would have been shot down by the media and Ministers alike, accusing them of incompetence.

Recently there have been highlights in the internet regarding Town Councils mindless implementation such as : putting sign stating "No Playing of Chess in Common Areas" at a HDB void deck in Haig Road, installing barriers on a walkway which caters to wheel chairs users at Bedok. These idiotic quick fixes in responses to feedback and/or complaints give us a glimpse of the working mentality of Town Councils. Seems like they suffer from a deficiency of common sense.