Why Heng Must Self Issue Himself and His Subordinate Indranee Rajah with a POFMA
Today in a Facebook post Indranee Rajah, Second Minister for Finance (why do we need not one but two Second Ministers? just another example of the Government’s bloated bureaucracy), claimed […]
Excessive and Disguised Government Saving Has Harmed Singaporeans for Decades. It’s Long Past Time We Demanded and Got Transparency on the Reserves.
I have just seen an article by Manu Bhaskaran and Linda Lim (BL) from a couple of days ago. This article summarises many of the themes and ideas in my […]
In A Heartwarming Story Amid Covid-19 Low Income Singaporeans Donate Billions of $ To Allow an Elderly Woman To Pursue Her Social Media Hobby
Yesterday Temasek announced that its philanthropic arm, Temasek Foundation, would be providing “300,000 meals to around 2,750 people in need who have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.” Their statement […]
Singapore Fact Checking Website Refutes Ho Ching Salary Claim Without Giving Facts.
Some Singapore watchers might be forgiven for thinking that Heng Swee Keat is Ho Ching’s house elf. Somehow yesterday this civil servant got the Finance Minister and the Deputy Prime […]
Heng Swee Keat’s Truly Terrifying Slip About Our Reserves.
Heng Swee Keat has chosen not to reply to my open letter of Friday which I think we can all agree is very rude and speaks volumes about the Government’s […]
Rather than Cyber Bully Ordinary Citizens, the Minister of Finance Needs To Be Transparent About Temasek, GIC, Our Reserves and the PM’s Wife’s Pay: An Open Letter to Heng Swee Keat
3 April 2020 Heng Swee KeatMinistry of Finance100 High Street#06-03 The TreasurySingapore 179434 Dear Swee Keat It has been many years since we were together studying Economics at Cambridge. I […]
More Covid-19 Deaths Have Not Stopped PM Lee from Going Ahead With His Plans To Use State Resources To Win a Snap Election
Today I received an email query from a state media journalist: Hello Reform Party Team, I’m Eugenia from CNA and am working on a story on the Ang Mo Kio […]
Why You Are Bodoh If You Believe MTI’s 2020 GDP Growth Forecast
I don’t know what the statisticians at Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) are smoking but I really think CNB should investigate and drug-test all of them including the Minister, […]
What Foreign Pundits Really Mean When They Say Singapore Is “Small Government”
On Saturday Adrian Wooldridge, Political Editor of the Economist and author of the Bagehot column, made the following extraordinary comment about Singapore in a tweet: Singapore’s effectiveness in treating Covid-19, […]
Singaporeans Should Not Just Worry About Their Jobs. Courtesy of the PAP, Their Supposedly Safe Savings Are At Risk Too
With European equity markets down over 40% and US markets down over 35% Singaporeans must be wondering what has happened to our reserves. LKY always claimed that Singapore’s success was […]
Budget 2020: Despite Biggest Threat to the Singapore Economy Since 2008 It’s Deja Vu as Heng and His Master Play Their Old Tricks of Hiding The Money
Every year the Finance Minister produces the same fake Budget in a process that at various points over the years I have been writing my blog I have characterised as […]
UNfactually: How the Singapore Government Tries to Bully Citizens into Accepting Misleading Statistics and Fake News
With the election is supposedly just around the corner and the new Protection from Online Falsehood and Manipulation Act (POFMA) just having become law, the Prime Minister must have been […]
Why Is LHL Making So Much Effort to Destroy His Tame Opposition?
Let me declare straight away that I am not here to excuse Sylvia, Pritam and Low’s actions. They have done a grave disservice to the cause of the Opposition in […]
Why Temasek? As a Vehicle to Allow the Lees to Secretly Extract Money?
Temasek’s results were announced on 9 July and they were not a pretty picture. While the Board claimed a 1.5% return for the year to 31 March 2019 this was […]
The Myth of the Lee Family’s Public Service
Last week I published a blog post, “How Many More Years Will Go by Before We Learn How Much the Lees Have Paid Themselves While in Public Office?”https://kenjeyaretnam.com/2019/05/20/how-many-more-years-will-go-by-before-we-learn-how-much-the-lees-have-paid-themselves-while-in-public-office/. I said there […]
How Many More Years Will Go by Before We Learn How Much the Lees Have Paid Themselves While in Public Office?
I am pleased to see that Workers Party MP Png Eng Huat finally plucked up the courage and asked a question in Parliament about the remuneration of the top 3 […]
