7 of the community cases are family members of a 38-year-old Singaporean man working as an ICA officer at Changi Airport Terminal 1 who tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday.
A 22-year-old man was arrested for drink driving following a fiery car crash that involved a van in Jurong Hill.
The terrifying crash resulted in 4 people suffering burn injuries and conveyed to hospital.
The van had apparently lost control and crashed into some bushes before it flipped over.
7 people were reportedly inside the vehicle, including one who was covered in help and frantically asking for help after escaping from the burning crash.
Thick black smoke could be seen billowing out of the vehicle.
The SCDF said that they received an alert to the vehicle fire at about 7.30pm.
“The fire involved the entire van and SCDF extinguished the fire with a water jet,” he said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.”
The four injured passengers, aged between 17 and 21, were taken to the hospital conscious.
Zulkeflee Ab Razak, 47-years-old, was jailed 7 weeks and fined $300 on 29 April for one count of mischief, one count of leaving his house without reasonable excuse during the circuit breaker and one count of theft.
He had reportedly left his home during the 2020 Circuit Breaker and pooped inside an incense burner tin outside another man’s home.
He then cursed at the man when he was caught in the act.
Zulkeflee was unemployed at the time of the offences.
Some time around 3pm on 27 April 2020, Zulkeflee left his home to wander around Geylang for 3 hours, before boarding a bus to Bukit Batok to wander around some more.
He then went up to the 10th floor of a block of HDB flats.
The victim saw Zulkeflee walking from the lift to the staircase landing and felt suspicious because he had never seen Zulkeflee before in the vicinity, he went out of his flat to check.
He then saw Zulkeflee with his pants down and pooping inside his incense burner tin, which was placed at the staircase.
The victim then confronted Zulkeflee, who hurled vulgarities at him while pulling his pants up, before running down the staircase.
The victim then called the police.
He later called the police again after seeing Zulkeflee sitting on cordoned off benches.
Zulkeflee attempted to defend himself in court by saying that he needed to relieve himself and decided to do so by taking a lift to a random level.
He then saw the open incense burner tin without cover and decided to pangsai inside it.
He also admitted to stealing a pack of cigarettes from 7-eleven at Tampines in March last year, in a separate case.
Zulkeflee also told the court that this was his “first offence”, to which the judge replied:
Following the Cabinet reshuffle in Singapore where Ong Ye Kung is due to relinquish his role as the Minister of Transport after just 9 months in the role, and take over as Minister of Health on 15 May, Ong said that he was “wordless”.
Ong said in an interview with ONE FM 91.3, Ong said that he didn’t expect to be moved to another ministry so soon.
He revealed that he was ready to stay at the Transport Ministry for 5 years.
Ong also shared that when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told him that he would be moving to helm the Health Ministry, he was “wordless”.
Ong spent 45 minutes chatting with the PM.
He also shed some light into his time as the Minister of Transport, sharing that the decision to close the North East MRT Line earlier on Friday and Saturday nights was crucial, because it helps to speed up the replacement works of insulators along the line.
Although his decision wasn’t too popular with some commuters, Ong said that it was imperative for the maintenance staff to have more time to work on the replacement works.
He also shared about his time as the Minister of Education prior to his appointment as the Minister of Transport.
He sahred that one of the toughest decisions that he had to make during his time there was to keep schools open during the first onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He rationaled that he didn’t want a whole generation of kids to miss out and wanted to keep the schools open to give them an environment to learn, despite other countries shutting their schools down in fear of an outbreak within the schools.
Images source: Ong Ye Kung Facebook and Google Street View
A friend shared with us how shameless people can be just to “fit” with other friends and most of the time it’s just an inferiority complex.
Here is the story:
“In my circle of friends, we have those that come from a rich family and those from a normal or under average income family. However, we did not care as friendship is about being there for your friend and not based on money.
However, one certain individual has reached the pinnacle of his “hao lian” and now keeps putting up a show to flaunt his “wealth” but often S in his own pants.
After one of my friends bought a Rolex, he decided that he will need one to fit in. He managed to buy a fake Rolex from overseas and claims that he has connections in high-end boutiques which allowed him to get the rare watch. (Its actually from a push cart located in Johor KSL mall)
As it turns out, the whole group of friends knew that the watch was not real and yet he goes around showing his watch and said “Do you know what time it is?”. Obviously, he is not a smart person for doing this in the first place and he is also oblivious to all the shaming he gets for flaunting his non-existent wealth.
The real joke was, that he knew that he is not known as a rich individual among us and puts a fake story to cover another by saying that the watch was bought with an instalment plan.
Little did he know that buying luxury goods with an instalment plan is like taking a smack in his own face by saying “i want show i got money but i no money”
Following the Covid-19 infection of a doctor, nurse and 3 patients at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), the hospital has announced on a Facebook post that no visitors will be allowed in the wards until further notice.
TTSH explained that this is part of the necessary measures responding to the infections from the hospital.
An unnamed source from TTSH has said that the hospital ward is in a “lockdown”, and that they are checking with staff members and contractors if they have gone to the affected wards between 18 and 28 April.
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Among the infected staff members is a 46-year-old female nurse from the Philippines who was deployed at Ward 9D.
She developed a cough, sore throat and body aches on 27 April, before seeking treatment at TTSH.
Her test results came back positive for the coronavirus and she was warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) on the same day.
The nurse had received her first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on 26 January and her second dose on 18 February.
Among the other affected parties are a doctor and 3 other patients in the same ward.
Image source: Google Street View and Tan Tock Seng Hospital Facebook
Following Shane Pow being dropped by Mediacorp, his role in the drama, The Heartland Hero, will be taken over by James Seah.
Shane Pow, who was charged with drink driving for the second time and one of the guilty parties present at actor Jeffrey Xu’s illegal birthday party held at Terence Cao’s home which breached Covid-19 safe distancing measures, will fulfil his outstanding commitments until 4 May 2021.
He will be filming until episode 31, with James Seah taking over from him for the remaining 99 episodes.
This is the first time in Mediacorp’s history that an actor has been replaced by another actor halfway through a Chinese drama.
The drama’s producer, Leong Lye Lin, said that the script will not be rewritten to fit Seah into the role.
Seah has since commented on the upcoming replacement plans, saying that it was complicated as Pow is his good friend.
Seah said that he was sad but when Shane heard about it, he was very encouraging and told him that if he needs any help, let him know.
Leong also revealed that she received a text from Pow, apologizing.
Images source: @jamesseah and @shanepowxp on Instagram
A Singaporean family on a midnight grocery hunt, who was harassed by the infamous racist auntie who is in the spotlight recently for harassing others by accusing them of harassing her, has come out and responded to a video the woman took in 2019.
The humble family was gracious in their response, with one of the family members, Ismail, posting a statement on Facebook.
He revealed that they did not know of the videos until recent events have come to light.
He even said that the family would like to reach out to the racist auntie so that they can apologize to her if they made her feel uncomfortable in any way.
He added:
“Maybe we were too engrossed in peanut butter!”
He highlighted that they are aware that it’s an invasion of privacy, but all the family can do is report the video to YouTube.
He appealed to everyone to chill and relax, highlighting that one bad apple doesn’t represent the entire community.
He summed up his post, revealing that the family went for Smuckers’ Peanut Butter and Jelly in the end.
