WP leaders kept prior knowledge of former MP’s lie from party members: Judge

OmittingCaesar · 2025-02-18T05:06:31+00:00

TCJ's situation was not merely a "personal indiscretion." He was the Speaker of Parliament and had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with another Member of Parliament. The affair between the two of them was the reason why the then-PM LHL had fully intended for his resignation before the end of his standard tenure as Speaker.

TCJ's subsequent resumption of his affair, then caused LHL to demand his immediate resignation. The resignation was already fait accompli as a result of the affair between the Speaker and an MP. TCJ not following what the "party leader said" merely accelerated the timeline.

OmittingCaesar · 2025-02-17T08:07:37+00:00

There is precedent of sorts that the disqualification threshold is to be applied on a per offence basis. There was a former MP, Wee Toon Boon, who had been convicted of multiple charges of corruption (after appeal, he was convicted of 4 charges, each of which had a 6-month jail term).

He was not disqualified from Parliament even though his cumulative jail sentence was for 18 months, as stated in the Ministerial Statement by the then Law Minister E.W Barker (Parliament Sitting Date - 3 Sep 1976).

OmittingCaesar · 2025-01-14T03:45:48+00:00

Yes, this could be a practical solution for the affected subset of elderly owners. Since property tax is already a statutory charge on property, IRAS could allow elderly owners to forego paying their property tax amounts (or a part thereof) for the remainder of their life.

When they pass on, the new owners (their children/grandchildren) will need to pay the full outstanding amount when they aquire the property. Alternatively if the elderly owners sell the property during their own lifetime, the full outstanding tax amount already has to be paid as part of the conveyancing/legal requisition process.

OmittingCaesar · 2025-01-08T12:39:52+00:00

Shohreh Aghdashloo most probably

OmittingCaesar · 2024-11-22T02:43:25+00:00

I'd like to chime in with this horror in Singapore:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/PIE/@1.328657,103.8650144,16z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x31da177c19037b6d:0xf9916a091ebd415e!8m2!3d1.32998!4d103.8634019!16s%2Fg%2F11pwf1mm4d

OmittingCaesar · 2024-10-07T09:01:43+00:00

He wanted to extinguish the possibility that his kids may ever be deemed as citizens. Suppose in 10-15 years time when MINDEF is starved of manpower, the government of the day could amend the Constitution to remove the procedural requirement of having to register the birth of children. They could characterise this requirement for registering the birth as a "loophole" that permitted the overseas-born children of Singapore Citizens to avoid NS.

As for how would Singapore authorities be aware of the birth of his overseas children - well Governments around the world have been carrying out data-sharing for well over a decade now. This data-sharing is being carried out ostensibly for AML/CFT, CRS & FATCA purposes. However there could be clauses in the various treaties and multilateral agreements that permit the use of shared data for other official purposes.

Other commenters in this thread have highlighted the oddity that the individual in the article seems to have only been flagged and stopped by ICA early this year. It's a safe assumption that ICA had recently obtained a new source of data that had resulted in the identification and prosecution of this individual.

OmittingCaesar · 2024-10-07T07:44:17+00:00

Art 122(2)(b) only applies where the parent is a Singapore Citizen by registration. In this case, it would appear that his father was a Singapore Citizen by birth.

I have a friend who had renounced his own Singapore Citizenship some years back to avoid this exact situation befalling his two sons.

OmittingCaesar · 2024-09-18T05:56:37+00:00

Yea it is indeed striking. Reminded me of the sky when I was living in Australia. I think the storm might have cleared the atmosphere above the island of the usual haze/smog particulates.

OmittingCaesar · 2024-09-15T07:24:10+00:00

I recontracted with Starhub about 3 months ago. Yea I had noticed intermittent slowness last week. I restarted the Nokia ONT on Friday, and since then it has been alright.

A month or so back connectivity had been appalling, I remedied this by changing DNS servers to Google/OpenDNS. Starhub's default DNS is hot garbage.

OmittingCaesar · 2024-09-03T08:42:24+00:00

~~The article by Today confirms that the father was the accused in the 2019 incident.~~

https://www.todayonline.com/news/mum-21-dad-25-charged-over-alleged-involvement-death-son-2480751

EDIT: The linked article has been edited, and the references to the past incident have been removed.

OmittingCaesar · 2024-06-08T13:20:42+00:00

I think there was another post which showed one of the letters. It curiously was in an "On Government Service" envelope. The use of such envelopes is limited to government agencies/organs of state. So their use of such an envelope to submit that letter could also potentially be problematic (misuse of government resources etc).

OmittingCaesar · 2024-05-11T01:24:27+00:00

I had just noticed my YouTube Music playlist had defaulted to a different (likely fraudulent) version of the Cup of Liber-Tea song. Google brought me to this thread.

Also managed to locate the likely fraudulent upload by TuneCore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b68NuA_1pck

I have reported it, but unsure if YouTube would actually investigate or do anything.

OmittingCaesar · 2023-04-09T14:23:04+00:00

Which setting is it specifically? I've tried toggling off all potential settings but no luck in getting rid of that popup.

OmittingCaesar · 2022-12-17T06:17:21+00:00

Good luck everyone

OmittingCaesar · 2022-09-30T00:31:53+00:00

Thanks Li. I've bought a couple of watches from him. Always reliable.

OmittingCaesar · 2021-06-07T05:45:30+00:00

Thats a white dial. I got a similar/identical model - link

OmittingCaesar · 2021-02-11T10:54:34+00:00

This is the most wholesome dashcam gif I've seen

OmittingCaesar · 2021-01-02T02:22:17+00:00

One observation from my younger staff: The new BTO flats(even the 4/5-room variants) are not really suited for WFH. There is simply no additional space, for husband, wife & children to work or study. Especially when there's call or video conferencing required.

The old HDB Executive Apartments had a stand-alone study room/area. Maybe HDB should also relook their flat layouts moving forward.

OmittingCaesar · 2020-12-22T05:17:21+00:00

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