11 young punks broke CB measures and meet up at Boon Lay Place Blk 221 at around 11.10 PM for some settlement talk on the 25th May 2020.
The 11 consists of 10 boys and 1 girl, all of them are charged with unlawful assembly and some were armed with deadly weapons
Group A
Jovan Pang Zhiquan, 18
Tan Wei Hao, 17
Glenn Wong Jun Yi, 18
See Huan Foo, 17
Jerome Tan, 17
Phoebe Chu Wei Er, 17
Leong Wei Zhi, 16.
Group B
Seth Lim, 19
Keith Ser Sheng Kai, 18
Cyrus Lim, 17
Lum Qi Xuan, 18.
Earlier that day on the 25th of May Tan Wei Hao, Jerome Tan, See Huan Foo and Leong Wei Zhi and 5 others had a fight at Boon Lay bus interchange.
The charge sheets did not wrote why they fight and most of the teens were remanded for further investigations.
All 11 will be back in court at a later date.
The offence of rioting armed with deadly weapons punishable under Section 148 of the Penal Code carries an imprisonment term of up to 10 years, and caning. The offence of unlawful assembly punishable under Section 143 of the Penal Code, carries an imprisonment term of up to 2 years, or with fine, or both.
The offence of being a member of an unlawful society punishable under Section 14(3) of the Societies Act carries an imprisonment of up to 3 years, or a fine of up to $5,000, or both.
Hi POSB, I’m writing in because one of your ATM machines “ate” S$1,300 of my father’s hard earned money. The backstory is that I was following my father who was depositing his money at an ATM at around noon on the May 18 at Marine Parade (DEP 47204756). He deposited 200 S$50 notes —which amounted to S$10,000 (he gets paid only in cash) — into the machine and it only registered S$8,700. He had met occasions before where the ATM “undercounted” by a few hundred and he had gotten the money transferred back eventually, so at first he wasn’t too concerned and felt that a big company like DBS/POSB could be trusted.
I helped him call your hotline shortly after the discrepancy to ask if the missing S$1,300 could be credited back to the account. We had the digital receipt so we thought that things would be settled. After three working days, I was told there would be no way the money could be retrieved because the receipt also shows S$8,700. My father and I found this absurd, because if the machine had an error in the first place in the way it counted the money, it would have definitely still show S$8,700 on the receipt. I called three times but received the same answer each time, that if there was no proof then the money couldn’t be restored. The standard reply was “we have investigated and there were no discrepancies. We cannot proceed with the investigation if you have no evidence”. What kind of evidence could I possibly be able to provide. My point is I feel patronised, they could at least provide me with the audit trial/data entry records for that day, to show me evidence that there were no discrepancies when there was clearly S$1300 unaccounted for that day. How convenient and easy it was to just brush it away by saying they have already investigated…
It is the circuit breaker period and like many others my father has been working hard as an essential worker and sole breadwinner. It has not been easy for our family and I feel like this sum, though perhaps not a big deal to many, is a big deal to us. My father counted the money three times before making the deposit (it’s a large sum, so of course he was careful to count) and just like that, once the money goes into the machine, there is no way to prove that the cash was in his hands in the first place. Even the receipt showed the wrong sum. What could we have done? Taken a video of my father counting the money right before he placed it in the machine? How can I feel secure the next time I make a deposit? I’m sure this is a rare occurrence, but when it does happen, how can POSB better help its customers? I have many questions that I hope POSB can answer, but above all I sincerely hope you can transfer the money back to us. It’s not right that a customer’s money is misplaced during this time when we need it the most.
I am sure this is not the first time that similar incidents have happened, so I went online and searched.
Attached are some examples that I have found online:
POSB, please be responsible to your customers. We had trust in your services and got this kind of treatment in the end. This is utterly disappointing.
Seriously, all these loopholes in the wearing mask law are giving people chances to not wear a mask, while some people who are genuinely exercising is getting filmed by this ridiculous woman.
Running or intense exercise = no need mask BUT There is no way to determine this! The intensity of a person’s exercise is relative.
For one young man’s slow jog could be an old man’s sprinting.
Here is what a netizen said:
She has a speedometer installed in her brain, that’s why she spends her life checking and filming peoples to see whether their walk style is brisk, or less brisk, or close to a marathon or more on Olympic level gold metal… wtf
Shortly after circuit breaker measures were announced in Singapore a taxi driver posted messages on Facebook group claiming that he has some “insider information” that there will be some ridiculous measures that will take place during circuit breaker.
The Facebook message was posted on the 16 of April 2020, Lai Yong Hui a 40-year-old behind the false messages posted the post, Comments started flooding in and told Lai not to lie to other people with false information.
After receiving backlash from the netizens the post was deleted 15 minutes later
He pleaded guilty earlier today and was sentenced to 4 months jail.
For a person that is found guilty under Public Order and Nuisance Act might face a maximum sentence of 3 years and/or fined of up to $10,000
“Uncle Auntie” Whatsapp Group
On the 15 April, the defendant saw a message in a Whatsapp group claiming that:
“disposable food container can transmit the virus” and “hawker centre and coffeeshop will be closed”.
Without verifying the information he posted it in Facebook group known as Taxiuncle.
“Food courts coffee shop all to close. Supermarkets will only open two days a week. Better go stock up your stuff for the next month or so. Govt officials in meeting yesterday and will finalize measures tomorrow,”
“Thanks” to messages like this, waves of people crowded supermarkets and started gathering goods. People wiped out essential goods and leave many with nothing to buy.
A Facebook User Daniel Chong had shared his unpleasant experience with KFC delivery in Johor Baru Malaysia. According to his FB Post, he had ordered the “Loaded Potato Box” from KFC KSL outlet through Food Panda.
Upon receiving the food, he noticed that instead of fried chicken fillets, he was given fried tissues.
His Post received 1,000 comments and 11,000 shares in the span of 4 days.
HIS FB POST:
“I order foodpanda from ksl Johor Bahru Today at 420pm ( the food they send me, I found fried tissue in the food) The food also send to us is wrong item “
A 22-year-old woman was arrested by the police on suspicion of loanshark harassment.
Police issued a statement this morning (27th) that the police received a report on the 25th of May 2020 about harassment from loan sharks, saying that someone had sent the remains of an animal to a residential unit at Tampines.
After investigation and inspection of the CCTV footage of the police, the Bedok Police Officer confirmed the identity of the woman involved and arrested her yesterday. He also obtained a mobile phone as evidence.
Investigations are still ongoing.
If the woman is convicted of loanshark harassment, first-time offenders can be fined $5,000 to $50,000, imprisoned for up to five years, and rotan up to six times.
Repeat offenders can be $6,000 to $60,000, imprisoned for two to nine years, and Rotan up to 12 times.
But since the offender is a woman she will not face rotan sentences.
As COVID-19 continues it continues to affect our daily lives. Entertainment outlets in Japan will reopen but some measures will be in place.
No Screaming
Many are excited that they can return to theme parks to have a fun day, but due to the Coronavirus there will be guidelines to follow in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The long list of guidelines was implemented on the 22 of May and part of the guidelines is that when a visitor is on the rollercoaster no screaming is allowed so saliva will not fly to others.
They will control the number of people entering theme parks and limit the number of users on each attraction.
When entering the park, the temperature of the visitors is measured, and their temperature must be lower than 37.5 ° C and have no symptoms or they will be asked to leave.
Securing physical distance (social distance)
In order to secure a physical distance (social distance) between the visitors, queue lines should be 1m or more for each group (family etc.)
Employees should wait for at least 1 meter (2 meters as much as possible) to serve customers and work with others.
According to the Ministry of Health, There was an additional of 383 new confirmed COVID-19 cases as of 26 May 2020, 12 pm.
There are 706 more COVID-19 patients reported discharged. This brings the total no. of discharged patients to 16,444.
BREAK DOWN OF 383 NEW CASES:
Imported cases: 0
Cases in the community: 2 (1 Singaporean / PRs. 1 Work Permit holder)
Work Permit holders (residing outside dormitories): 0
Work Permit holders (residing in dormitories): 381
585 confirmed cases who are still in the hospital. Of these, most are stable or improving. 8 are in the critical intensive unit, 15,291 were isolated in the community care facilities. The total death remains at 23.
According to a post on the Singapore Police Force FB page, there is false news circulating on text messaging platform that there are robbers robbing residents while pretending to distribute face mask door to door.
According to SPF, the news is not true. There is no such incidents happening in Singapore. All residents are able to collect their mask with their NIRC from the nearest Community Clubs (CCs) and Residents’ Committee Centres starting from 26 May 2020 to 01 Jun 2020.
Singapore Police Force FB Post:
“FALSE MESSAGE CIRCULATING REGARDING DOOR-TO-DOOR DISTRIBUTION OF MASKS
There are false text messages circulating via text messaging services, claiming that there are people robbing residents under the pretext that they are distributing masks under a new Government initiative. The messages also claimed that residents would be made to try on masks which are believed to be doused with chemicals to make them lose consciousness.
This is untrue. The Police have not received any report regarding such incidents.
All residents with a valid identification card can collect reusable masks at all Community Clubs (CCs) and Residents’ Committee Centres from 26 May to 1 June 2020 and vending machines located at all CCs from 26 May to 14 June 2020. Collection details are available on https://maskgowhere.sg.
The Police urge the public not to spread unsubstantiated information which may cause public alarm.
The Police take a very stern view of anyone who knowingly spreads false information to mislead the public and will not hesitate to take action against such individuals.”
According to the media release, a 20-year-old man was charged for his involvement in loanshark activities during circuit breaker. On top of his 7 charges previously, he was charged for breaching circuit breaker law as well.
On the 09 Apr 2020 between 12 am to 6 am, the man left his residence at Bedok reservoir road and head to Block 1 Holland Close to harass one of his debtors.
In the process, he had vandalised the lift lobby at the 7th storey with a marker asking the debtor to pay money. He had then locked the gate of the debtor with a bicycle lock.
According to the law, anyone convicted for loanshark harassment shall be fine between $5,000 to $50,000 with mandatory imprisonment of up to 5 years, and mandatory caning of up to 6 strokes
