Four Colombians, who were here on tourist visas, have been sentenced to one year’s jail each for breaking into three houses and stealing a total of $2,000 from the houses. The four came to Singapore with the intention of house breaking in Private estates and looting valuable belongings.

The four, who arrived in Singapore on 2 May this year, have been named as Puentes Entralgo Yuli Caterine, her husband Gonzales Gonzales Alvaro and their friends Ordonez Saenz Jose Andres and Sandoval Rivera Edgar Alberto. The four of them had rented a Mercedes as their stake out car, and decided to hit their target, a home on Muswell Hill at Braddell. They went out empty handed, however, as they failed to find any cash or valuable belongings, and realised there was a CCTV in the house.

The four were arrested the next day, and were found to have bus tickets to Malaysia on them. Their total haul was three houses broken into, with the other two being in Chancery Lane and Jalan Eunos, and they only managed to steal three wristwatches, cash of S$2,000 and a precious gen stone.

Felix Wong

Breaking news! ComfortDelGro has announced that it is actually in talks to form a “strategic alliance” with Uber. The taxi company is looking to collaborate with Uber to manage its fleets and book software solutions.

They have just signed papers to start discussions and nothing is affirmative yet.

If given the green light, commuters will be able to book their ComfortDelGro taxis via the Uber app. Hopefully, this solution will sustain the taxi company and maintain its role as a transport service provider in Singapore.

Taxi drivers must be going up in arms about this. If you cannot beat them, join them? Does it work like that?

In news that surprised no one, commuters on the North South line experienced delays again this morning during rush hour. At 7.32am, SMRT tweeted that commuters should add 15 minutes’ additional train travel time from Yew Tee to Jurong East. This was due to a track fault “not linked to the new signalling project”, the tweet said.

However, most passengers said that the waiting time was far longer than what SMRT tweeted, with one commuter even saying that she was stuck on a MRT train at Choa Chu Kang station for 40 minutes. Another commuter said he took 40 minutes to travel from Yew Tee to Jurong East, which is just four stations apart.

At 8.13am, SMRT revised the estimated additional travel time from Yew Tee to Jurong East to 10 minutes, and at 8.53am, it said that the train service was running normally again.