A woman who was working as a temporary staff in Grab office was fined SGD$5,000 after a branded watch was pocketed by her.
26-year-old Kaushalia Kathiravan pocketed a Cartier watch worth over SGD$5,000 from the Grab lost-found-found section of the office. She pleaded guilty in court for criminal breach of trust.
What happened?
The incident happened back in July 2019, a Grab driver Mr Tan found a watch that was left behind by a passenger. He handed the watch to Grab’s property office at 28 Sin Ming Lane.
Kaushalia who was sorting through the lost-and-found items decided to pocket the watch and told other staff in the office there that was no watch. However, little did she know that her actions were recorded by a CCTV.
In August 2019, a staff went through the CCTV footage and caught Kaushalia in the act, Grab then handed the case to the Police.
Yesterday Minister of Health Ong Ye Kung explained that he is feeling upset just like everyone else and explained the importance of why there is a need to roll back to Phase 2.
Here is his Facebook post:
I have received several valid queries, including from my friends on WhatsApp, asking why roll back to Phase 2 (Heightened Alert) when we plan to live with COVID-19? Why should everyone else pay for the mistakes of people who were irresponsible?
The Multi-Ministry Taskforce (MTF) explained this during our press conference yesterday, but let me summarise the key points here.
Like everyone, I am upset with the irresponsible behaviour of people in the KTV cluster, but it is not the reason for the reversion to Phase 2(HA).
In fact, the MTF thought we could control the KTV cluster, and decided to keep F&B establishments open with the 2/5 pax rule, i.e. allow five pax if all are fully vaccinated.
Indeed, the number of cases from this cluster has come down over the past few days.
What caused a slide back to Phase 2 (HA) is the Jurong Fishery Port cluster. Unfortunately, while our fishmongers and stall assistants were going about earning an honest living, they got infected at the Port. As they went on to work at various markets around the island, many more cases in the community were seeded.
Markets are frequented by seniors, many of whom remain unvaccinated. This is most worrying, and we are at risk of an uncontrollable rise in cases, which could potentially result in many severe illnesses or even deaths. So we need to preemptively tighten up social activities.
Some asked me why to suspend restaurants, given that there have been no cases detected in those settings.
Unfortunately, it does not work like that. If 5 friends meet for dinner, each has 5 people at home, who in turn meet their friends in groups of 5, we have a network of 5x5x5=125 connections for the virus to work itself through. This will turbo charge the Jurong Fishery Port cluster further.
What is positive is that 50% of our population has received two doses. It is a good rate but needs to go higher. This percentage will be going up by 1 percentage point every day. In 2 weeks, we will be at 64% or more. That will put us in a much stronger and resilient position when we review the Phase 2 (HA) rules.
We are so close to being in a much stronger and confident position. Given the gravity of the Jurong Fishery Port cluster, we felt it is not the time to risk it all now.
It’s a frustrating situation, but I hope with my explanation, we understand why the measures are necessary.
A man shares his story of how his girlfriend behaves like a raging tiger and hounds at him for the slightest things, apparently, the man has a syndrome called “balless” and cannot face his girlfriend like a man.
Full Story:
So my GF has a natural gangster and savage attitude and talks like an ah lian when she’s very angry.
She’s also a fighter so you wouldn’t wanna mess with someone like her. On the other hand, she can also be really nice, sweet and kind. Anyway, sometimes when I accidentally do something and it gets on her nerves or triggers her, she talks like an ah lian gangster towards me and says things like
“come out and talk la knn!” a
nd I legitimately feel scared of her. Furthermore, I feel that sometimes she can be quite double standard and unreasonable.
NUS has made a reputation of itself after multiple cases of NUS students commit crimes in relation to the term of being a “pervert”. The bad apples from the tree have not only disgraced NUS as the term goes “The apple does not fall far from the tree”.
25-year-old Jonathan Angga Dharmawan Jie was sentenced to 10 weeks jailed after he was found guilty of filming 2 women in the campus showers.
The man has since been suspended.
The incident happened back in Aug 2019, a 25-year-old woman who was showering notice a man looking up through the bottom of the door and the woman shouted for help.
4 hours later he decided to do it again and record a video of a 22-year-old woman showering, the victim later notices the camera and scream.
The NUS student said that he did this so that he can “feel accomplished” and he was addicted to filming woman in showers.
A 57-year-old man who was previously convicted of drug usage pleaded guilty to two counts of sexually penetrating a minor. He was sentenced to 4.5 years in jail for exploiting his 14-year-old niece.
Between October and November 2019, the girl who ran away from home seeks refuge at the drug offender’s house in Jurong East. The man played an adult film on the TV and showed it to the 14-year-old.
Right before the movie ended he sexually assaulted the girl and penetrated her, The next day the mother pick up the girl and brought her home.
Just a week after the first assualt the man committed the act again, he told the 14-year-old girl to deliver him food and did it again with her. The girl who was afraid tried avoid him after the two incidents as she was afraid that her uncle would do it again.
The girl kept quiet about the incidents until 15 November 2019, she told a social worker and the she was brought to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and the Police was informed.
26-year-old, Mohammad Alvee Rana was sentenced to two weeks in jail after assaulting a taxi driver.
How it happened
The 58-year-old victim picked up the attacker and his girlfriend at Boat Quay on 21 October 2019 at about 10 PM
On the way to Novotel Singapore(Stevens Road), Alvee demanded the taxi driver to stop the vehicle so he could pee, the taxi driver explained that they are in the middle of heavy traffic and he could not just abruptly stop the vehicle.
The man then said if he does not stop his vehicle he will pee in his taxi.
The driver had no choice but to stopped the taxi along Stevens road so that the man could pee by the roadside. \While his girlfriend was waiting in the taxi. The driver asked where they are from and the woman responded by saying they are from Bangladesh.
The taxi responded by saying “Oh you are from Bangladesh”, the woman who was not happy at how the Taxi responded told the remarks to Alvee and the journey continues.
Upon arrival, Alvee threw cash at the taxi driver and argued with him and started hurling vulgarities at the driver and even pulled the driver’s shirt by the collar.
Witnesses at Novotel saw the incident and intervene
The Ministry of Health of Health (MOH), they are investigating cases of Covid-19 infection amongst social hostesses work at KTV clubs currently which operates under “F&B license” along with theytheir close social contacts.
Epidemiological investigations revealed that there is likely ongoing transmission at Sakura Entertainment. The location of the entertainment establishment is located at 517 Geylang Rd.
All visitors to the affected premises are advised to monitor their health closely, and minimise social interactions as far as possible, for 14 days from their date of visit or interaction. They are encouraged to see a doctor immediately if they feel unwell.
Netizen shares story of Sakura Entertainment
Back in my army days, Sakura was a Thai disco with a lot of siam bu we go there to get entertain and hang flowers. I even celebrated my birthday there once and make my wallet explode.
Shortly after no more siam bu work there only Vietnam bu, very pretty Vietnam bu. Not one or two of them several.
According to a court hearing, 49-year-old Alan Tan Chai Soon was accused of hitting his domestic worker. Filipina Cabacungan Leezel Mina claimed that she was slapped and assaulted on multiple occasions for failing to adhere to the standards of the employer
The court heard that the maid had taken loans from at least six money lenders and failed to return the money, the employers home address eventually received notices of demand to return the money. The maid even said that she wanted to be transferred to another household and avoid getting sent back to the Philippines.
A doctor who examines her said that there is a possibility of the bruises being self-inflicted.
However, the charges were dismissed due to the maid’s inconsistent evidence.
If Mr Tan had been convicted of hurting the maid he could be sentenced to up to 2 years jail and/fine of SGD$5,000.
A netizen discussed the topics of KTV after finding out that her father frequents hotels. She is worried that her future husband will be like that.
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Hi, I’m 24F here. Just want to let something off my chest. So there’s a time my dad logged into his email using my personal laptop and he forgets to log off.
I didn’t realize it too until recently I saw his account was in. So out of curiosity (yes I know I shouldn’t invade someone else’s privacy, let alone my family members), but what I found out was disturbing and shocking to me. He actually has a full-time job but due to COVID, some days of the month are WFH. Most of his emails contain newsletters, subscriptions, and all the nonsensical stuff that we all have.
However, he does receive many grab receipts as he takes grab quite often. So I clicked on those mails, and what I saw was he had been frequenting different hotels during his off days. He doesn’t overnight, and he will leave the location in an hour or so. I’m not sure if this is what the majority think it is (hmm like the KTV men) and I wouldn’t want to believe it that way as well, but my dad also bought sildenafil (I went to google, it’s for erectile dysfunction). So all this “evidence” does make me feel uncomfortable.
His relationship with my mom is great, just that there hasn’t been any physical interaction between them for years. I’m currently attached and have been discussing BTO with my bf, but this incident makes me feel like my future husband would be hiding things from me too when he’s much older or even did what the KTV men did, and it makes me hesitant even on my own relationship
The Ministry of Health (MOH) reported that they are investigating cases of Covid-19 infection involving people who are either working in the premises or have visited Marina Bay Sands Casino.
The latest report reveals that there are 11 cases linked to this cluster, and epidemiological investigations have found that there is likely ongoing transmission at the Casino.
MOH said that the Marina Bay Sands Casino will be closed in order to break the chain of transmission and enable deep cleaning of the premises. The casino will remain close from today (July 22) till August 5.
All staff who are working in the Casino will be tested.
Free Covid-19 testing will be available to members of the public who had visited Marina Bay Sands Casino between July 7 and July 21.
