The resident total fertility rate (TFR) fell to 1.19 in 2013 from 1.29 in 2012. The number of foreigners taking up employment here is still growing at nearly 3 times the total population growth rate, which expanded 1.3 per cent to 5.47 million as of June. That total population figure includes 20,000 new citizenships and 30,000 new permanent residencies (PRs) which the government continues to grant each year, despite the token measures and empty promises to reduce the foreign intake. All the numbers point toward the demise of the Singapore born and bred, destined to go the way of the dodo bird.
It was worst in 2011-12, when foreign employment growth was as high as 8.1 per cent. Those were the wild and woolly days when a tour guide with dubious credentials could easily sneak past the lax ICA.
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Intan emphasised that she wrote the letter of support regarding Yang Yin's application for permanent residency (PR) at the behest of Madam Chung Khin Chun: "She first came to see me and sought my help in May 2011... for her grandson."
The ICA also emphasised that: "Individuals who provide false information in their applications for immigration facilities will be dealt with firmly under the law. In addition, they will have their immigration facilities cancelled or revoked.” What the ICA did not say is how members of parliament who provide false information in their petition letters will be dealt with.
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wonder how her masters will solve this problem :)
ReplyDeleteIt's happened.
DeleteWhat to do?
Let's move on ..... (and create an even bigger mess).
Yew heard of Doctors Without Borders.
We have Politicians With No Accountability.
Thank Yew 60%.
Who cares how they solve it.
DeleteWho cares about Intan.
The big question is: WHO GAVE YY LASTING POWER OF ATTORNEY?
The whole saga relating to this tour guide swindler is a metaphor for this fixation on 'foreign talents' and how the zealots in their eagerness to please blindly helped put out the welcome mat. What is blindingly obvious is these 'talents' came, they saw, they take and - here's the rub - they move into your house with their entire family.
ReplyDeleteShe actually invited a thief into her house.
Deletewho do you know, do things without expecting returns?
ReplyDeleteI know! I know!
DeleteSingaporean voters who vote PAP.
They never ask themselves 'How does it benefit me to vote PAP?"
quid pro quo.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why we need an independent statutory Board, not associated with the govt of the day.
ReplyDeleteWe had the National Conversation.
DeleteNow it's time for the National Audit.
Vote for an audit in GE 2016.
Even foreigners teachers are speaking good things about the foreigners and bad things about Singaporean..
ReplyDeleteIn front of PAP Ministers and PAP grassroot leaders;
DeleteWe should only say good things about bad PAP policies.
- I love sending the white PAPigs down the wrong path.
- this tactic will cost them more votes than giving them accurate feedback.
Better yet.
It screws up their minds.
Until they don't know who or what to believe anymore.
Remember.
Keep telling them what they want to hear.
It's all part of the brain washing.
DeleteSingaporeans got brain washed in 1965.
Now it's the turn of the Aliens starting from 2004 when Pinky Loong ascended the throne.
Singaporeans are not daft anymore.
So it's time to screw Singaporeans and transfer benefits to the aliens.
If no points are going to be awarded for grassroots application for PR, then what the fuck does the MP need to write the letter of appeal since according to ICA, it carries no weight? Someone must be lying?
ReplyDeleteMaybe what is more effective is to attached the photo taken with the PM which will do the trick because eventually the PM will need the votes of these future citizens in order not to be booted out of AMK constituency?
If nobody is saying anything will people like you or me ever find out?
Thank you, MP Intan, for scoring an own goal. Carry on the good work. It will be remembered in 2016 and we will give Pinky a black eye, and rescind his Population White Paper.
ReplyDeleteThe belated response of Dr.Intan raises more questions. Firstly, Yang Yin had already applied for his PR. The application process, as reported in the TOC, requires the applicant and his sponsor/s to fill in rather detailed forms. Presumably, Yang and his sponsor/s would have filled them up and submitted them to the ICA. Was Mdm. Chung his sponsor? If so, it would make no sense for her to see Dr. Intan for help since the application had already been turned down. And no extra points are given to grassroots leaders or volunteers, says the ICA .What was the interval between Dr. Intan's letter of appeal and the grant of PR status to Yang? Was the fact that Yang served in the grassroots used to persuade the ICA to reverse its decision? Since questions of the integrity of the whole system is in question, it is incumbent on Dr. Intan to release a copy of the letter of appeal. Not to do so would invite cynicism and doubt on her integrity and the whole system of PR grants.
ReplyDeleteIs a National Audit required here?
DeleteI second that ! PhD ? We used to sarcastically refer to those with that degree as those whose heads need examination as they studied too hard . Had know a few and they were pretty normal , very intelligent individuals.
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