Politics

Hong Lim Park sure is busy these days. Lim Tean will be holding another rally, "Where Is The Accountability In Singapore?", at the Speakers' Corner on 16 Mar 2019. This follows his previous rally on abuse of process.

The rally will talk about how the PAP elites have messed up the lives of Singaporeans "whilst being paid extraordinarily high remuneration". 

"Our frequent train break downs, NS deaths, fiascos in the Ministry Of Health, diabolical mandatory medical schemes forced upon us by the Government, constant changes to the CPF rules and delay in payment etc."

Even after all this, the government does not care to be accountable to Singaporeans: "Incompetent Ministers and establishment figures are never sacked and neither do they have the decency to resign when found lacking."

It is about time Singapore citizens demanded for answers or at least some accountability. How can we as citizens let them escape with so much money but so little effort?

The fight has just begun. The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) will be kicking off its campaign on 23 Feb 2019. It will announce its plans for the next General Election, including its direction on making Singapore better. 

The PAP and its ministers have been under fire over the past years for saying stupid things and failing to make improvements. Singaporeans are increasingly annoyed by the constantly increasing costs of living, only to be told by our dear Prime Minister that we can overcome this by saving more money. 

"Given the circumstances, PM Lee Hsien Loong will be sorely tempted to call for an earlier GE rather than allow things to worsen. Elections at the end of this year seems increasingly likely."

The SDP promised to save Singaporeans from the hands of our elite masters. "We may have a mountain to climb but the SDP never says die. We're up to the task and we will conquer that mountain. But we need you, the people, to do it with us.

It's our turn. Our time has come. This is not a drill, it is the real thing, and we need all patriotic Singaporeans to come forward and be part of the campaign – your campaign.

So mark the event on your calendar and spread the word. Tell your family and all your friends when you see them this Chinese New Year to come and be part of this great cause."

The time has come. What are Singaporeans waiting for?

Worker's Party's Gerald Giam has waded in to the public dissatisfaction over leaked patient medical data, by questioning why one individual can have access to over 14,200 records of HIV patients, and that coming from using a user's account, and not even as a system administrator account.

This came after MOH released a statement indicating that they had found a breach of data, and that they identified the suspect as American fraudster Farrera-Brochez. Farrera-Brochez, who is himself a HIV positive, helped himself to the data with the help of his doctor boyfriend, Ler Teck Siang, who also happened to be the head of MOH's National Public Health Unit from 2012 to 2013. As the head of the unit, Ler had access to the HIV registry. 

Gerald Giam also  questioned why the ministry, MOH, took more than 2 years to discover the data breach and thus only managed to inform those affected a full two years after they had their accounts hacked, as well as why it was possible end users can export out so many records at one go. In the intervening two year period, almost 2,000 of the HIV patients has since passed on.

MOH, and the Minister of Health, does have a lot to answer for.

A PAP representative who lost in the Aljunied GRC during the last elections has scored another own goal, and he had to apologise to residents there are the brochures handed out to them had a Tamil write up that was full or errors.

The message on the door hanger brochures contained translated Tamil errors, and it was obvious that anyone reading it that translation was done straight from English into a translation app service, with no QC done. The Tamil characters were reportedly inaccurate, driving the ire of the residents who feel that the PAP representative did not bother to check, and that shows how much he cared for the non-PAP ward.

The PAP representative, Shamsul Kamar apologised to all the Tamil residents of the ward, and reiterated that they take the mistakes seriously. But not serious enough, it seems, to prevent the most basic of errors in the first place. 

Lim Tean of the People's Voice party has announced that he will be recording a podcast with blogger Leong Sze Hian. The podcast will be about the defamation case against Leong and the counter-suing between him and PM Lee Hsien Loong on Abuse of Process.

Leong is being sued by LHL for a defamatory article which claimed that the latter helped former Malaysian PM Najib Razak launder funds. Recently, LHL's lawyers have tried to strike out the blogger's counterclaim as it has "no basis".

Lim Tean is also Leong's lawyer. 

People who are interested in posing questions for next week's podcast are encouraged to contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by next Monday. Let the fun begin.

Lee Hsien Yang has taken a jibe at his brother, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, again. He wondered if there is a need to magnify a private family dispute and waste public resources on the matter especially after all this time.

Instead of addressing his question, the AGC has conveniently sent 5 cases to the Law Society. "It is unprecedented for AGC to refer a matter involving a private will, especially where parties have had legal representation.

If Hsien Loong has a problem with our father's will, he should have lodged a complaint as a private citizen."

Big Brother indeed. He will not even let go of his little brother. Why not settle it among themselves? If they cannot even resolve a family issue, how can they expect Singaporeans to trust them with national concerns?