SG50 Fun Packs For Overseas Singaporeans, Permanent Residents?

5 August 2015

Mr Ace Kindredzen Cheong wrote to The Straits Times asking for SG50 fun packs to be distributed to overseas Singaporeans to demonstrate that they have not been forgotten by the country ("Will S'pore Families Overseas Get SG50 Fun Packs?", 4 Aug 2015).

If Mr Cheong examines the contents of the fun packs, he will quickly conclude that there is hardly anything inside that is worth the effort of either sending them overseas or collecting them. Many resident households don't bother to collect them, even when the People's Association and its grassroots organisations bring the fun packs to convenient collection points in the neighbourhood.

Much resources have already been wasted on sourcing, making, assembling and distributing the 1.25 million fun packs to resident households.

It is a pointless exercise.

Let's not waste any more resources sending and distributing them to overseas citizens and permanent residents.

Pioneer Generation

25 July 2015

At a Pioneer Generation roadshow, MediaCorp's Brian Richmond, reporting "live" on Gold 90.5 radio, said that all those born on or before 31 December 1949 were automatically Pioneer Generation members.

He added that all those who were citizens before 1987 were also Pioneer Generation members.

A person has to be born on or before 31 December 1949 and is a citizen before 1987 to be considered to be a Pioneer Generation member.

If radio personalities at a Pioneer Generation roadshow get their facts wrong, it's no wonder that some people are still confused more than a year after the Pioneer Generation scheme was introduced.