12/18/2024
No more Singaporeans - back to resident and non resident
SINGAPORE: After a previous drop, resident employment rose again as Singapore's labour market continued to expand in the third quarter of 2024, according to the Ministry of Manpower's (MOM) latest report released on Monday (Dec 9).
This increase comes amid an overall expansion in employment, driven largely by non-residents. CNA
in the article in CNA, "Rebound in resident employment as Singapore labour market expands in Q3. Resident employment grew by 4,000 after a drop in Q2, MOM data showed", it was mainly about resident and non resident. The word citizen appeared once, "Unemployment rates continued to fall in September (1.9 per cent overall, 2.6 per cent for residents and 2.7 per cent for citizens), while the resident long-term unemployment rate remained unchanged at 0.8 per cent, just like the past two quarters."
And the word Singaporean was mentioned once, in the last sentence, “The government will continue to invest heavily in Singaporeans to enable them to compete strongly amidst continuous economic transformation and prevailing global uncertainties,” said MOM.
When would the word Singaporean disappear from the statistics of MOM? When would the word Singaporean becomes taboo in Singapore?
I still remember Lawrence Wong's maiden speech as the PM, when he kept repeating the word Singapore more than 10 times. When the PM mentioned the word Singaporean, it means that he is still thinking about Singaporeans, at least.
Has MOM forgotten that there are Singaporeans in Singapore and their interest, especially in getting employed in good jobs is very important to their existence in the most expensive city in the world? When would the word Singaporean be erased from the vocabulary or dictionary of Singapore and the citizens would have to call themselves resident or local, and when asked to fill in their job application letters or official forms, or in their ICs, they would fill in the word, resident, and not Singaporean?
I am a resident of this island. I am not a Singaporean?
What do you think? With the continuous influx of foreigners and given citizenship or PR, EP. WP, would resident and non resident be the official terms for the people in this island? Can Singaporeans be exempted from NS when they started to be officially called resident and not citizen?
Elon Musk said Sinkies are going extinct !
ReplyDelete8000 platform workers to get CPF's contributions.
ReplyDelete8000? Really? 800 hundred thousands lah!
Singaporeans have Full time gainfully employed jobs?
All goes to the foreigners!
That's why now all called RESIDENTS!
You are just a Resident!
Back to the 50s and 60s where all are Residents!
But poor Sinkies Residents needed to do National Slavery to protect as Security Guards for the Well Heeled and Elites Residents.
That's why, even the Monies Laundering PRCS purposely came here instead of Matland and Thailand because they knew that the Daft Real Sinkies Residents are too daft to know the difference between the Citizens and the Residents and had to slave and sweat for their Screwerty.
Also they knew that when they flashed their millions or billions, they are all blinded.
With salvia dripping to boost the Econmy and hopefully trickled down to ahem ahem us.
Aiya monies are monies whether clean or dirty as long as they are monies lah!
Now also utong (Gained) as easy confiscation to the Treasury.
On landing in Singapore Airports, the Capitan will said" Welcome to Singapore, ALL RESIDENTS"
No eyes see.
Cantonese "Moh Gan Thye!"
Sinkies are so fortunate and well taken care of. New pueumococcal vaccines are being heavily promoted free for those elderlies. But they never highlight this vaccine is from the famous Pfizer.
ReplyDeleteAnything that is too good to be true, be warned.
ReplyDeleteCOEs around $100,000/- , collecting $billions from the people . . .
ReplyDeleteCOEs are as good as the USA money printing machines. Every country should do it. Malaysia has succeeded in making its first EV, said to cost above RM100,000, or about as cheap as Chinese EVs. Surely cannot sell in the USA because too cheap.
DeleteOn thing I am unsure. If EVs are going to be that cheap in Singapore, does it follow that the COEs should be much lower, even if at 100% of the value of the car. Will the authorities increase the COEs to 200% perhaps or even more. Just wondering!
The Malaysian Government must have been subsidizing Proton for it to be able to make EVs so cheaply, LOL. Just tailoring the accusation to fit the agenda!
DeleteAll the rich high net worth foreigners they attract to Singapore can easily afford to pay very high for COEs to get cars to drive in Singapore. That drove the COEs prices so high that ordinary Singaporeans gotta pay thru their noses for the COEs. They will always find excuses not to change the current COE system as it's bringing in alot of money for them . . .
ReplyDeleteIf I am not mistaken, they are trying to solve Punggol's evolving transport crisis by adding more buses to serve Punggol residents commuting to the Central Business District/Raffles Place/Tanjong Pagar. Punggol residents have no direct MRT service to the Central Business District for decades, having to switch trains at Dhoby Ghaut, facing huge crowds and overcrowded trains during peak hours. Punggol roads are all very narrow, with traffic jams occurring since the mid-2010s in specific locations during morning peak hours.
DeleteThis is already a problem in the making for some years, with the North-East line filled to the seams every morning, with commuters further down the line, in Sengkang, Buangkok, Hougang and Kovan stations finding difficulty in boarding trains during morning peak hours. With the Punggol Coast residential area filling up fast, the Punggol Digital District construction progressing and with the Singapore Insitute of Technology campus now functioning, the problem is now more acute than ever.
What will all these mean for residents of Punggol going forward? If the MRT cannot cope with the increasing population, workers and student movements, and the narrow roads cannot cope with the increasing traffic, most likely some will have to look for alternatives, like buying cars. And the Government will be laughing all the way to the bank as more COEs will be needed. Solving the escalating problem with more buses that contradicts the earlier option of cutting bus services fast and furious when the MRT first started operation seems a move too early and too fast.
The Transport portfolio is turning out to be the 'Graveyard of Ministers' judging from the current Transport Minister's candid but telling comments.