by Abriel | Mar 5, 2020 | 2020, Climate Action, Singapore Budget 2020
As Singapore fortifies against rising tides, the nation’s solutions and strategies will be based on science, with national water agency PUB taking the lead as the national coastal protection agency. Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli told...
by Abriel | Mar 5, 2020 | 2020, Climate Action, Singapore Budget 2020
Moving on from NEWater, Singapore has big plans for NEWSand – a promising construction material culled from incineration waste. More ambitiously, it wants to create NEWOil – using discarded plastic to replace fossil fuels. The country is looking at...
by Abriel | Mar 5, 2020 | 2020, Quality Education, Singapore Budget 2020
From July 2020, teachers in mainstream schools will get access to bite-size online learning modules that will better equip them to teach students with special educational needs (SEN). Around 80% of students with special needs are taught in mainstream schools, while...
by Abriel | Mar 4, 2020 | 2020, Singapore Budget 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities
The National Library Board (NLB) will build a branch in Punggol with a more inclusive slant as well as revamp eight more libraries from now until 2026. Ms Sim Ann, Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information, announced this in Parliament on 3 March...
by Abriel | Mar 4, 2020 | 2020, Reduced Inequalities, Singapore Budget 2020
A training grant for persons with disabilities (PWDs) and credits for their employers to offset wages are among measures to be rolled out to enhance the employability of this group of workers. Announcing this in Parliament on 3 March, Minister of State for Manpower...
by Abriel | Feb 28, 2020 | 2020, Climate Action, Singapore Budget 2020
Mindsets and consumption habits need to change as Singapore moves to tackle climate change, said Workers’ Party Non-Constituency MP Dennis Tan, as he urged the Government to set a “bold green agenda”. To encourage “buy-in” to this...
