It always is tempting to label the ruling Peoples’ Action Party (PAP) as a clique with a ‘heart’ but that hardly seems to be the case.
If anything it amounts to grandstanding for the act of making huge payouts only happens whenever an election is called. It happened shortly before the 2006 elections and it also happened before the 2001 elections.
Predictably most in the country were not amused by the payouts which in the main are nothing more than symbolic gestures of supposed human fellowship and bereft of any real commitment to remove the real seeds of disaffection. Poverty in the country is artfully disguised and not made to show in official government statistics. Full story
