By Jose Raymond
The Singapore Government needs to consider legislating a Sports Safety Act, as an updated, comprehensive and all-encompassing national sports safety strategy and framework to help protect lives is critically required in Singapore. Continue reading “Singapore needs a Sports Safety Act”
By Jose Raymond
In response to a Parliamentary Question by Workers’ Party’s Dennis Tan Lip Fong 陈立峰 on 11 September, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu stated that “…under the High Performance Sports system, Team Singapore athletes are provided comprehensive support in the form of financial grants, training and competition opportunities, as well as coaching, sports science and medicine support.” Continue reading “Is support for athletes comprehensive enough?”
By Jose Raymond
The Government’s lack of engagement and consultation with Singaporeans ahead of critical policy changes is disturbing, and bares its insecurity. Continue reading “Government’s lack of engagement bares its insecurity”
By Jose Raymond
The Singapore Land Authority’s (SLA) decision to suspend Home United Youth Football Academy’s (see story here) use of two of its pitches at the Mattar Road premises because of complaints by a few residents is a slap in the face for the development of sports culture in Singapore. Continue reading “OPINION ⇒ A slap in the face for Singapore sports culture”
By Dr Abdul Rahim bin Abdul Hamid, PhD
It is with trepidation that the Chairman of the Masjid Sultan Management Board, Mr Mohamed Bin Salleh Patail, has announced a SGD$1 million project to install an air-conditioning system to the huge mosque prayer hall. Continue reading “OPINION: Air-conditioning Sultan Mosque is a waste of $$$”
By Dharmendra Yadav
I refer to the report “Collection of iris scans to begin Jan 1 at ICA, SingPost outlets” published in the 28 December edition of the TODAY newspaper. Continue reading “OPINION: Why was Singpost picked to collect iris scans? ICA has more to explain”
by Kavickumar Muruganathan
Having pumped in billions of dollars into the economies of countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, the palm oil industry is estimated to be worth about US$88 billion dollars by 2022. An extremely versatile ingredient, palm oil is found in consumer products ranging from chocolates to cosmetics. Continue reading “Transparency for a clearer picture”
