Someone enlighten me on how much tax payer are paying for the BCRS

Can someone enlighten me on how much tax payer are paying for this whole wayang aka grace fu kpi accessment? My assumption (correct me if wrong):

1.Drink manufacturers (DM) have to spend extra $$ to print 10cents label.
2. DM sell to vendors with extra 10cents markup
3. Vendors collect back 10cents from consumers.
4. DM return the $ collect from vendors minus it own extra cost to BCRS.
5. BCRS was setup with tax payer money to manage the whole process (manpowers/vending machine/software..etc)
6. The amount of $$ from DM collected will not be able to fully run BCRS, also not all drink can will be returned.

So ultimately BCRS is a money loosing setup, just to keep sillyporean busy looking for empty drink can. While Grace fu achieved her kpi with another pay increase. This is such an amazing scheme that a rich little country can come up with from it so called very talented Minister...hahaha


Anonymous

China standing up to defend its friends against American terrorism

China has vowed to support Cuba against external interference after US President Donald Trump said Havana “will fall” and called for “fundamental change” on the island.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun made the pledge on Monday as Beijing and Havana marked 66 years of diplomatic relations, saying China will support Cuba in “safeguarding its national sovereignty” and pursuing a “development path suited to its national conditions.”

In an address to the UN General Assembly last week, Trump described Cuba as an “absolutely failed state” and “a haven for foreign adversaries” on America’s doorstep.

What’s happening in Cuba?

Cuba is enduring its worst economic crisis in decades, marked by chronic fuel and food shortages and prolonged blackouts. Decades of US sanctions have restricted access to financing, fuel, and equipment, compounding low domestic production, dependence on imports, and aging energy infrastructure.  RT

The fall of Venezuela was a wake up call for China. If China continues to adopt a non involved policy, all its friends will be taken down and taken over by the American terrorists, and this would include all its investments, and strategic assets in those countries. Perhaps it was not entirely China's fault as China then was unable to extend its protection of friends far and near. For centuries, China was itself a victim of foreign aggression, being broken up and several parts seized by foreigners and its treasures looted.

Venezuela is not just a case of a bridge too far, but the internal politics made it impossible for China to lend a hand. The entire political leadership was bought over by the Americans. It was a sell out of the interests of the Venezuelan people and China's interests in Venezuela. In the case of Cuba, after decades of draculan sanctions and blockade, the cruel American terrorists have locked down Cuba from the outside world and life is still existing in the 1960s. Cuban lives and living condition, social and economic infrastructures remained practically at a stand still.

Cuba cannot fall and must be free to live like the free people of the world, with honour, dignity and prosperity. For too long, the world has been kept in the dark about the cruel and basic living conditions in Cuba, not much better than Gaza before it was mowed down into ruins and the Palestinians being genocided by the American and Israeli terrorists. The genocide is still going on and no one is able to stop the savages from killing the Palestinians. The American terrorists are planning another genocide in Cuba.

The Cubans have stood up strongly in defiance of the American terrorists for decades, to defend their country and independence, unlike the Venezuelans. The Cubans must be highly respected and supported by the people of the world to free themselves from being imprisoned by the American terrorists.

Iran is the first major effort by China to defend its friends and is holding very well against the American and Israeli terrorists. Cuba may be difficult because of geography. But with the political will and concerted effort of friends of Cuba, Cuba does not need to fall or be kept isolated from the rest of the world. Fark the American terrorists and their fake free world and freedom. Several countries are still being imprisoned by the American terrorists, notably those in Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Pacific Islands, including the people of Diego Garcia, These countries and people must be freed from the American terrorism and oppression.

The whole must stand up to the American terrorists and stop being hypocritical. The world must know what is good and what is evil and stand beside the oppressed people of the world, and call out the American terrorists. Do not allowed the mass murderers to stand in the UN to call for the annihilation of a nation state and its people. This is primitive barbarism!

The world and the civilised people cannot keep looking away from the American cruelties against the people of the world. Stop pretending that these did not happen and the Americans are the good guys. The Americans are the most evil and baddest guys on earth. Think of the millions they have killed and the millions they have oppressed and suppressed.

Virgo's pain for returning drinks and bottle containers

Bravo to Grace Fool!

Now I have to fork out extra ten cents for the drinks container and asking me to hold the can to look for the return ten cent vending machine not knowing where it is

Also walking round to find this machine to get your ten cents back

Next every trip even now to neighbourhood stores have to pay ten and sometimes twenty just for the plastic bags to carry the items that you brought

Wow saves the environment that's a Honourable action

Whereas elsewhere the UAssA dropping their bombs and burning the coals and Indonesia wildfires with haze and they don't give a damn to it

The South Koreans and the UAssA Allies conducting their Military Exercises

Heavens shakes it's Head and held their Breath

What's a joke!

Virgo49

Are Singaporeans taking lesser sugar?

The stats are out regarding sugar and salt intake by Singaporeans. One reason was that more people are now eating out, thus intake of salt is not falling like sugar. Is that the truth or just trying to push only the good news and avoid the bad.

I have my two cents worth looking at the issue. First, sugar is relatively more expensive than salt and when the word goes out about making drinks with less sugar, drink makers jumped with joy. Here was an opportunity to save on sugar, add more water, increase prices and nobody is the wiser. When everyone making drinks saw the benefit, it takes off like rocket. Now, it is not whether consumers still have a choice as most drinks have low sugar on its label. I wanted to buy packet drinks without the low sugar label as I always put ice cubes to keep it cool but could not find any. That was one big reason why sugar consumption has fallen over the years. One problem I personally encountered with low sugar content drinks was when putting ice cubes into drink containers diluting the drink that was to taste almost like plain water.

When the call went out about encouraging vendors to produce food with less salt, food outlets and hawkers are not listening. Customer's taste and profits are more important and all that talk about health issues goes out the ear. If one hawker uses less salt and another does not, who do you think is going to lose customers? Salt is cheap and taste matters more than just health talk. Consumers are not going to eat food finding them less savory, and that is likely to make them avoid such vendors. It is human nature. All the time we are bombarded by how tasty some places are, not how healthy the food they are selling. Money talks and bullshit walks.


Anonymous

Saudi fighting Houthis, rich men fighting poor men

Saudi Arabia is now escalating its war with the Houthis. Saudi Arabia intervened in the Civil War in Yemen between the Yemeni Government and the opposition Houthis since 2014, leading to deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. There was a lull in the fighting with the peace agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia in 2023 but is now flaring up. The Houthis have blockaded the Bab Al-Mandab seaway, preventing the Saudis from exporting its oil via the Red Sea route.

The Saudi/Yemen war was a massive humanitarian crisis, largely ignored by the Western MSM. Saudi Arabia was then supported by the USA, while the Yemen opposition, the Houthis, was supported by Iran. The status quo still stands and what is the result is left to be seen.

Without the control of the Bab Al-Mandab, the Saudis do not have access to the Red Sea route, even if it tried to avoid the Strait of Hormuz. Is there any substance talking about oil moving out of the Middle East at levels before the war? I am flabbergasted at the optimistic fabrication.

Right now, Trump is gloating about the release of 100 million barrels of oil from stockpiles by the G7 countries to soften the blow and hoping to keep oil prices from rising further before November. How realistic is the attempt and what will be the consequence if the blockade in the Middle East continues? Are the G7 countries capable of influencing oil prices just by releasing stockpiles? A hype is just a hype, nothing else. What is important is the reality.


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