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500 MCYS staff lined Thomson Road to say
farewell to Mrs Lee during office hours
October 6th, 2010 | Author: Your Correspondent
The race to show “who has more respect” for PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew has reached a ridiculous height as 500 staff from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) were “arrowed” to stand along Thomson Road to say “farewell” to Mrs Lee, a typical PAP astroturfing tactic reminiscent of that used during the recently concluded Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
According to a Straits Times report, “about 500 people, most of them staff from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, gathered along the road to pay their respects to Mrs Lee.”
The cortege left Sri Temasek at about 3.45pm at arrived at the Mandai Crematorium just before 5pm for a funeral service with invited guests including the PAP-endorsed President, PAP ministers and PAP grassroots leaders.
This means that MCYS staff were given time off to show their “respects” to Mrs Lee at the expense of taxpayers. The PAP minister in charge is Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, who has come under increasing public pressure of late over his inept handling of the YOG fracas and the abrupt termination of free shuttle bus services to Resorts World Sentosa.
Did Dr Vivian Balakrishnan give permission for his staff to leave work early to put up the “wayang” along Thomson Road or was he arrowed by somebody “higher up” to do so?
With due respect to Mrs Lee, she is neither the “Empress Dowager” of Singapore nor the “First Lady”. The real “First Lady”, Madam Ling Siew May, the wife of Singapore’s first Elected President Ong Teng Cheong, was not accorded the same “honor” when she passed away in 1999 towards the end of Mr Ong’s term in office.
MCYS staff have ample time to pay their respects to Mrs Lee after office hours at her wake during the last two days. Is there really a need to get them to line along Thomson Road to pay their “last respects” during office hours when they should be working in service of the people?
In the meantime, security is heavy at the Mandai Crematorium as helicopters were sighted whirring overhead. It is not known how much public monies have been spent so far on Mrs Lee’s funeral as PAP ministers, MPs and cronies took turns one after another to take the art of “boot-licking” to ever greater heights.
farewell to Mrs Lee during office hours
October 6th, 2010 | Author: Your Correspondent
The race to show “who has more respect” for PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew has reached a ridiculous height as 500 staff from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) were “arrowed” to stand along Thomson Road to say “farewell” to Mrs Lee, a typical PAP astroturfing tactic reminiscent of that used during the recently concluded Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
According to a Straits Times report, “about 500 people, most of them staff from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, gathered along the road to pay their respects to Mrs Lee.”
The cortege left Sri Temasek at about 3.45pm at arrived at the Mandai Crematorium just before 5pm for a funeral service with invited guests including the PAP-endorsed President, PAP ministers and PAP grassroots leaders.
This means that MCYS staff were given time off to show their “respects” to Mrs Lee at the expense of taxpayers. The PAP minister in charge is Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, who has come under increasing public pressure of late over his inept handling of the YOG fracas and the abrupt termination of free shuttle bus services to Resorts World Sentosa.
Did Dr Vivian Balakrishnan give permission for his staff to leave work early to put up the “wayang” along Thomson Road or was he arrowed by somebody “higher up” to do so?
With due respect to Mrs Lee, she is neither the “Empress Dowager” of Singapore nor the “First Lady”. The real “First Lady”, Madam Ling Siew May, the wife of Singapore’s first Elected President Ong Teng Cheong, was not accorded the same “honor” when she passed away in 1999 towards the end of Mr Ong’s term in office.
MCYS staff have ample time to pay their respects to Mrs Lee after office hours at her wake during the last two days. Is there really a need to get them to line along Thomson Road to pay their “last respects” during office hours when they should be working in service of the people?
In the meantime, security is heavy at the Mandai Crematorium as helicopters were sighted whirring overhead. It is not known how much public monies have been spent so far on Mrs Lee’s funeral as PAP ministers, MPs and cronies took turns one after another to take the art of “boot-licking” to ever greater heights.
