This is what we call responsibility.
Responsibility
3. a particular burden of obligation upon one who is responsible: the responsibilities of authority.
Minister ‘quits’ over Mumbai attacks
Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil has submitted his resignation taking “moral responsibility” for the Mumbai attacks that killed nearly 200 people.
The dust has just settled. An inquiry has [...]
We often hear Singaporeans complaining how Australia’s way of life is better and all, and that everyone wants to migrate there once they get their hands on their CPF(actual one, not the monthly feel-rich kind of statement). The highly-paid and capable (emphasis fully intended) government of Singapore has now heeded your calls, for once.
Singapore has [...]
The above title was one of the searches I saw on my control panel.
My answer: should have been cut a long time. In fact, let’s talk about job cuts.
Many of them are redundant. They push papers for an organisation that asks for zero profitability and which efficiency seems to be low in their priority. They [...]
In 2007, “founding father” Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said.
Singapore in a golden period, says MM Lee
By Aaron Low
FRAMED against a Saturday night Orchard Road crowd, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew last night sketched a rosy picture of a more vibrant Singapore in five years’ time – if it took full advantage of the [...]
I shall not comment anymore about how ridiculous and stupid some town councils’ chairmen sound.
refer to here and here, and form your own conclusions.
What I am going to propose is that the members of our Town Councils should be elected just like our MPs. Town Councils represent the citizens’ interests, and the citizens’ interests would [...]
We’re not here to grandstand.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, when asked if ministers would take a pay cut
Grand⋅stand
–noun
1. the main seating area of a stadium, racetrack, parade route, or the like, usually consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats.
2. the people sitting in these seats.
–verb (used without object)
3. to conduct oneself or perform showily or ostentatiously in [...]
We have to be realistic. It’s easier to say things with hindsight, but it’s not so straightforward.
Zaqy Mohamad, MP of Hong Kah
Unfortunately, its pretty straightforward. Your Town Councils mismanaged the funds which was in the first place PUBLIC funds, and collected from S&C charges that kept rising despite having such a huge [...]
let me clear my cynicism of the world amidst the anger that i felt towards the arrogant remarks made by Teo Ho PIn, Chairman of the money-losing Town council.
let me turn my attention to something that is life and death, literally. I have never ceased to wonder. How do doctors bear to perform euthanasia on [...]
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