A 48-year-old man who worked at Changi Airport was sentenced to 4 weeks in jail yesterday after punching his son in the face and calling his mother a loose woman.
Even before the incident he had a Personal Protection Order issued against him and yet he continues with his violent actions.
The incident happened on 3rd December 2019 at about 9PM, after drinking 4 cans of beers he went to his mothers home which he is not allowed to due to to PPO and started a ruckus.
His mother who did not want him there started to argue with him and he started calling his own mother a loose woman, the Police were alerted which lead to his arrest.
2nd Incident
Earlier this year on Feb 25, again he went back to the same unit and started to have an argument with his sister and his mother while under the influence of alcohol, this time he drank 5 beers.
The father then asked his 12-year-old son if he wanted to stay with him but the boy refused him and wanted to be together with his grandmother. The man started to rage and pulled his sister’s hair and continued to push his son and eventually landing his fist on his face.
The mother tried to intervene but she was pushed away.
A man filmed a Tik Tok video sharing tips and tricks on how to get a girlfriend in Singapore.
He said the method involves him going to Paya Lebar to make eye contact with the girls. Paya Lebar is known to have a lot of foreign domestic workers having picnics.
A pregnant woman had a terrible encounter at a shop known as Convenieunce plus shop located at Block 260 Bangkit Road. The woman who was injured did not receive any help when it was so obvious its the fault of the shop workers.
Here is the story:
I went to this store convenience plus shop under my void deck Bangkit road and bought 2 litter oil, Nutella, cereal and snacks, they packed everything in 1 plastic bag. As soon as I stepped out of the shop the plastic tore open from the bottom and I can hear the salesperson say ‘ohhh’ but they let me be instead of helping me.
My Nutella was in a glass bottle and I had to carry it myself cause if I don’t someone might get hurt, so walk back to the store and they quickly say ‘it’s not our fault, it’s your fault you cannot refund ‘.
Before I could say anything, 3 salespeople cornered me and raising their voices at me, my finger started bleeding and I said back the plastic was not strong enough and it’s their fault for putting everything into 1 bag
I mean how else do we carry plastic bag? there’s only one way by holding the handle that’s all and the cashier walked away from me and I walked home with a trace of blood on the floor, I’m a pregnant woman and I have a low blood count. I expected some sympathy from the staff they totally disgusting.
The 31-year-old man who set fire in front of a Police station at Boon Keng located at Towner Road Block 105 has been sentenced to 3.5 years jail along with 9 strokes of the rotan.
The incident happened on 13 March 2020, which triggered 56 police reports. The 31-year-old Sivaprakash initially wrote down his plans on a notebook and his family tried to stop him but failed to do so.
At around 11.10 PM he went to the planned destination and set fire to the premise, void deck walls were also painted with the word “ISIS”.
On June 25, 2021, a Singaporean man named Loh Hu Seong, 58, was sentenced to 39 months in prison and a fine of $16,001,500 by the State Courts for dealing with duty-unpaid cigarettes under the Customs Act and for being a party to a criminal conspiracy to deal with duty-unpaid cigarettes under the Penal Code.
He will serve an extra 25 months jail for not being able to pay the $16 million fine.
According to investigations, Loh colluded with an unknown guy and a Malaysian man to bring duty-free cigarettes from Malaysia to Singapore sometime in September 2018. For each successful shipment, he was promised between $1,000 and $2,000 in payment. Loh and the Malaysian man entered the country on September 14, 2018.
They came to Singapore to look for excavator components to use as cover loads for duty-free cigarettes. They looked for warehouses at the same time, and Loh ended up renting an industrial unit on Tuas South Street 1 for the deconstruction and retrieval of the cigarettes.
On November 7, 2018, Singapore Customs discovered 5,428 cartons and 25 packs of duty-free cigarettes hidden in recycled excavator arms imported from Malaysia during an operation at an industrial site in Tuas South Street 1.
Following that, five men were apprehended and dealt with separately. The entire amount of duty and GST avoided was almost $514,900 and $37,510, respectively. Loh was found guilty of dealing with uncustomed commodities under the Customs Act for his role in this case.
Loh also engaged in a criminal plot with a Singaporean individual between September and October 2018, according to investigations. He bought excavator arms from a Singaporean man and instructed him that he required holes drilled in the arms to conceal duty-free cigarettes.
After that, the Singaporean hired a craftsman to cut holes in the excavator arms and install brackets with screws in the corners to conceal the hidden areas. Loh was found guilty of engaging in a criminal conspiracy to deal in duty-unpaid cigarettes under the Penal Code for his role in the scam. The Singaporean man’s case is still being heard in court.
After being extradited from Malaysia for these crimes, Loh was hauled into Singapore Customs custody on January 15, 2021. He was previously convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison for dealing with duty-unpaid cigarettes, with a total value of $136,570 and $13,740 in duty and GST, respectively.
SP Group had a media release that stated the amount and reason why there is an increase from 1 July to 30 September 2021.
Electric
For the period from 1 July to 30 September 2021, electricity tariff (before 7% GST) will increase by an average of 3.8% or 0.84 cent per kWh compared with the previous quarter. This is due to higher cost of fuel for producing electricity by the power generation companies.
For households, the electricity tariff (before 7% GST) will increase from 22.55 to 23.38 cents per kWh for 1 July to 30 September 2021.
Image Source: SP Group
Gas
City gas said that the gas tariff for households will increase 0.4 cents to 18.47 cents excluding GST.
A netizen has tried to seek help from MOH and wrote a post regarding his mother and urgently needs the attention of the authorities to help him in his dire situation.
If you have a heart, share this post.
Here is the man’s Facebook post:
“Tried posting this on MOH’s fb page but it doesn’t show up. Thus tagging the team here – Ministry of Health, Singapore
To whom it may concern,I have a legitimate urgent case that I require urgent assistance with.
I’m currently serving my quarantine Order until 05 July. I have a critically ill mom in the hospice whose condition is deteriorating very quickly and is not left with much time.
I am certain that she will not be able to make it through this quarantine order given the updates I received from the hospice. You may check with the hospice on this as they can let you know more about my mother’s condition.I was also told by your team that I will have to borne the cost of any swab tests done that are “ad-hoc”.
To pay a visit on the same day, I will have to first do an ART swab, with the results out in 30 minutes. The cost is $128 per swab each time and the result lasts for 24 hours.If I were to choose to do the PCR swab test it will cost me $299.60, result lasts for 72 hours. But I will only know the result on the next day. The 72 hours includes the time I have to wait for the results to be out.
All these have to be done in order to visit my mom for 2 hours daily including the time the team ferries us from the hotel to the hospice.Honestly, this is not cheap. And this is definitely not the way if we want to visit her daily. It is illogical that I have to pay so much to see my mom who is critically ill and it is definitely not something we wanted.
I called in to your hotline this morning to appeal to waive these costs and also to extend the visiting hours. I called your hotline again this evening as there wasn’t any response from your team as it was something very urgent and I needed an answer quickly.Your customer service team picked up my call and mentioned that there was already a response but “the staff forgot” to give me a call back.
Should I receive a response earlier, I would have requested for a visit today (30 June 2021) making full use of the 24 hours test result for the ART swab test I have done yesterday evening.First of all, this is not something I wish that happened to my mum.Secondly, I don’t come from a well to do family and my dad has passed on last year. I still have a flat that is under loan and other liabilities to pay for. I don’t even earn $5k per month.
I still have to worry about the costs of the hospice bills for my mum’s stay in the hospice.Thirdly, at this point of time, I was hoping that your good team could sympathise with us and our current situation to waive off these “ad-hoc” costs but I was rejected “due to SOP”. Which brings me to my next point – In the event that my mom were to pass on and I do not have money to pay for the swab, is MOH just going to ignore my request to visit her?
Because that seems like the case. I have repeated myself several times through the phone call that my mom’s condition is critical and she may pass on anytime. I only have a mother and I am also only left with her as a parent. Can MOH sympathise with families like us and grant us an exception for such cases to waive off the charges and let us visit her for a longer time? We are all human beings and we have our own family.
Shouldn’t we help each other out on such cases and give exception instead of “going by the book” everytime and rejecting me with “I have checked with my higher management and they have rejected your request” every single time? When I mentioned I would like to speak to the higher management, I was told they DO NOT handle phone calls. In the first place, if they have the authority to make decisions, I would like to feedback that they should also be the ones to handle the phone calls for such cases.
The customer service lady then informed me that they have a supervisor but she has ended her shift. And I have to wait for 3-5 working days later to receive a call back from her. In this situation, I still have to wait. 1. I have been submitting my health declaration through the homer app on time. I am NOT in contact with anyone else and I am feeling fine. I have done my swab tests and my results all showed negative. 2. I am just trying to spend the final moments with my mum, together with my sister.
We are left with our mum, she is also only left with us. Can the team try to understand the situation we are in? We are not coming up with excuses to avoid this quarantine order. 3. For the past few visits, we had to liaise with the Certis integrated quarantine services team and MOH just to visit my mom. On 29 June 2021, we have submitted a request to visit her. In total, it took 9 hours for all the procedures to be done.
We only managed to visit her at 10pm itself. Now, again, if my mom were to pass on suddenly and I have to travel down to the hospice urgently to see her and settle the paperwork etc, do I still have to wait till 9 hours later? It is ridiculous that despite the case was under expedition, we only managed to get everything done and could only visit my mum 9 hours later. So much time was wasted, and it really worries me that if my mom passes away during this time, nobody could help us on this because all the designated visitors from the hospice list including myself are all quarantined.4.
We have been cooperative since the start of this quarantine order. Like I mentioned, my mom do not have much time left and it is very likely that she might not be able to make it through this period while we are under quarantine. I’m sorry I have to resort to posting on this page otherwise my case will be swept under the carpet so that the team can quickly close my case.
Please look into this urgently and not brush me off with a standard reply.5. To add on, your offices have been calling me everyday asking me on my current location. With that tracking device tagged onto us, I’m surprised that I’m still receiving calls daily to check if I am at home or the hotel. May I know then what is the purpose of the tracker? What’s worse is that they even informed us that they will be coming to install a tracker when I mentioned I already have one on. In total the team had visited me thrice to install the tracking device.6.
I have been accommodating and understanding towards the internal miscommunications the team had yet did not complain. I would like to emphasize that I am not escaping from this order. However right now we are at our wit’s end and are seeking the team to look into this ASAP. Please get back to me ASAP as I mentioned my mom is already critically ill and does not have much time left.Thank you.”
A 16-year-old girl and three other younger boys age between 12 and 15 beat up a taxi driver to rob his earnings.
The group took a taxi to Sungei Tengah Road at late night, the 16-year-old came out of the taxi and demanded that the driver steps down. The taxi driver did not comply and was punched in the face twice.
They took $256 from the driver and ran to a nearby farm to split the spoils.
Steal Cigarettes:
On October 12, 2020
The group meet up at a Choa Chu Kang Coffeeshop at around 1.45AM and broke into a coffeeshop to steal cigarettes.
Over 50 packets were taken amounting to over $600.
Rape
She faced 1 charge of robbery with hurt, housbreaking to commit theft.
Another 2 charges of theft and she even reported to the POlice once that she was almost rape.