A mother's wish list

Feb 25, 2013

LOOKING at the steady decline in our birth rate, the cost of raising a family, the intense competition from the global workforce for local employment, and workplace discrimination against mothers, I fear that mothers will become marginalised in society unless more is done to meet their needs throughout the stages of parenthood.

[Listen people! This is how you start a classic piece of letter-writing to the press. First, leverage off current affairs or issues that are very germane, so that the ST forum page editor (or whoever selects your letter for publishing) will have a pretext to publish it - It speaks to the issue of the day!

THEN you work in your pet peeve, or pet rant, or your pet project!]

Use smaller buses on less popular routes

Feb 12, 2013

I HAVE noticed that during off-peak periods and on certain routes, buses have few or no passengers.

PAP sending wrong signal in Punggol East

Feb 09, 2013

BY TAKING the drastic stand that it will not push for new facilities in Punggol East after losing the recent by-election, the People's Action Party (PAP) is sending the wrong signal to the 44 per cent of voters who supported it ("PAP won't push for facilities in Punggol East"; Wednesday).

[What about the signal to the 56% that did NOT vote for the PAP?]