Can the residents go to court to force the TC to disclose details of their investments?

Why not? I’m sure alot of us are happy to contribute money in bringing those TCs to court. Remember TCs are independent companies managing public finds and the funds are collected from the people to maintain the flats. And if there are accounts irregularity then the people involved have the rights to do so.

Can the residents go to court to force the TC to disclose details of their investments?

So this is not secret society activity?

Great! Make sure it won’t come out that the Official Secret Act is executed when it come to pass that Town Councils must open their books to the public or judicial query for what ever reasons. Can that assurance be made?

If you notice the GDP growth in Singapore is below 5% off late. If you take away GST which is 7% tax on goods & services we could be in recession for the next few years with negative GDPs. In my opinion, this is why GST is necessary.

Giving back cash (from GST collections) to the people as GST offsets is akin to a stimulus exercise and this tends to encourage people to spend and enhances the GDP figure. Looks like both GST and GST offsets tend to enhance the GDP.

But if you take away the GST, ARF, COE, maid and foreign workers levies, in my opinion, we could be in a permanent recession with negative GDPs!

What has the government done? Little or not enough.

Why should people have to pay GST for hospitalization and other medical costs? Becoming ill is bad enough and having to incur medical bills is another blow; but why GST?

Why should the cost of seeking treatment at the emergency clinic of a government hospital [SGH, for example] be set at a minimum of $90? One would not normally visit an emergency clinic unless it is an emergency. But look at the hefty cost one has to pay.

How many government depts, if any, are not operating on a profit basis?

Singaporeans may be interested to know.

we must have initiative and fend for ourselves.

I wonder and wondered,
TC sinking fund is people’s money.
Specifically, the money belongs to the people who LEASE flats,
which are not cheap at all.

IF this situation happens in 1st worlds like Switzerland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, England, California, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, Seoul, Quebec, etc, WHAT THE …. WOULD HAPPEN? HOW DIFFERENTLY WOULD THE REACTIONS BE?

Note that I am limiting the scenarios to only purely the well developed countries known for their standard of living.

Like the song the lemon tree, I wonder how , I wonder why, ……and I wonder.

:(

You can run, hide, avoid but the FACT REMAINS in our face.

regards
1st world citizen of the type R.

The transparency is so invisible.

We asked why the Punggol/Pasir Ris and Teo Ho Pin’s TC invested in toxic products and lost our money, the Straits TImes came up with almost 4 pages of crap about the Health MInister’s take on transparency and brags about his particular Sembawang Town Council is.

3 words to describe it all : Full of Shit!

“You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you’ll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again… and your asset values will disappear, your apartment will be worth a fraction of what it is, your jobs will be in peril, your security will be at risk and our women will become maids in other people’s countries, foreign workers.” – Justifying million-dollar pay hike for Singapore ministers (Straits Times, 5 April 2007)

Congratulations folks, really getting a good dose now!

More secrets from the society akan datang!

Good luck!

The Greek ruling party has been fattening its coffers and neglecting populist needs over the years. There has always been a tension between the ruling party and the electorate, and all it took was a murder of a young boy carried out by a policeman to spark an all-out uprising. If indeed there are peaceful means to awake apathetic Singaporeans who don’t want their boat to be shaken, then only violent means should be rejected.