Govt announces Cabinet reshuffle
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Govt announces Cabinet reshuffle
Yahoo! Newsroom – 20 minutes agoIn a Cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, the Government announced the restructuring of two ministries -- the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA).
Three new ministries will be formed -- the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSFD), the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY), and the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI). They will take effect from 1 November.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam will relinquish his appointment as Minister for Manpower. He will remain Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.Tan Chuan-Jin will become the new Acting Minister for Ministry of Manpower and Senior Minister of State for National Development.
Read the Prime Minister's press statement:
Singapore is in a new phase of development. Social and community issues are increasingly important in our shared home. First, we need to strengthen our families and enhance our social safety nets to help those in need. Second, we must foster the arts and sports, and build social capital through volunteerism, while engaging our youth to shape our future together. Third, we have to improve public communications and engagement, so as to reach out more effectively to our increasingly diverse society in the age of social media and rapid technological progress.
The above priorities are currently overseen by MCYS and MICA. To focus more sharply on these increasingly important areas of work, and to improve synergies across related issues, the current portfolios of MCYS and MICA will be re-distributed to three ministries:
a) A new ministry - the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) - will be established to focus on building a cohesive and vibrant society, and deepening the sense of identity and belonging to the nation. It will assume MCYS' current roles in strengthening community bonds, promoting volunteerism and philanthropy, engaging youth, and developing the sports. It will also assume MICA's arts, heritage and national resilience functions;
b) MCYS will be renamed the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). It will focus on building strong families, developing our social services and looking after those in need of social support. There is synergy between these portfolios as the family unit is, and should rightfully remain, the fundamental building block of our society; and
c) MICA will be renamed the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI). It will oversee the development of the infocomm technology, media and design sectors; the national and public libraries; as well as Government's information and public communications policies. REACH will be transferred from the current MCYS to MCI. The reorganisation will enable the Government to focus more sharply on communication and information.
The above changes will take effect on 1 Nov 2012. -
2 ministries becoming 3- simply allows another guy to be a full minister drawing a multi millon dollar paycheck.
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this year so many news, so happening, so interesting. now got new ministry somemore. heheheh
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you put incompetent idiots from one ministry to another, it is just moving their incompetence about and causing other ministries to become even more of a wreck than they are now...
anyway, it's just becoming more top-heavy.. and top-heavy places fall easily
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Verily, verily, my crystal ball is telling me that Sg population is going to strink further.
Soon you will see the country is left with only the cabinet.
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incompetence fools cant get jobs elsewhere.
so bo bian have to create more "opportunities" for them.
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so now... NCSS (& Comm Chest) falls under which ministry?
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Originally posted by Honeybunz:
so now... NCSS (& Comm Chest) falls under which ministry?
CPIB?
CAD?
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MCCY gets 11 stat boards and organisations... didn't realise it is going to be so big.
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K Shanmugam sees Grace Fu, Indranee Rajah as great assets
By S Ramesh | Posted: 02 August 2012 1709SINGAPORE: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Law K Shanmugam on Thursday welcomed new appointees to the two ministries under his care.
Mr Shanmugam said Ms Indranee Rajah, who has been appointed Senior Minister of State for Law, brings with her a wealth of experience and described her as a great addition to the ministry.
Ms Indranee has been a Member of Parliament for Tanjong Pagar GRC since 2001 and is a top lawyer and Senior Counsel in private practice at Drew & Napier.
She will assume her post in November.
Mr Shanmugam also thanked his outgoing Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Law Sim Ann for her contributions in championing community mediation, intellectual property outreach efforts and geo-spatial initiatives.
He said she was also instrumental in moving substantive amendments to the Moneylenders Act, which saw a tightened licensed moneylending regime to better safeguard the interests of borrowers; and more recently, for the Patents Act, which would better position Singapore in its development to be Asia's IP hub.
Mr Shanmugam also welcomed the appointment of Ms Grace Fu as the Second Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Speaking to the media at a reception for ASEAN Day on Thursday, Mr Shanmugam called Ms Fu "a tremendous asset".
"She's effectively bi-cultural and would be very helpful in many areas and also we're discussing with her, I've started speaking with her on how we can share responsibilities."
In a statement issued to the media later on Thursday, he said Ms Fu's new post would be extremely helpful "at a time of increased responsibilities and workload" at MFA.
Mr Shanmugam added that Ms Fu will help in managing Singapore's external relations in an "increasingly fluid and challenging regional and global environment".
Ms Fu's appointment came into effect on August 1.
Mr Shanmugam also paid tribute to Mr Lui Tuck Yew, who relinquished his post as Second Minister for Foreign Affairs.
He said Mr Lui, who is also the current Minister for Transport, gave MFA tremendous support despite his heavy portfolio.
He added that Mr Lui contributed to policy planning with his sound judgment and clear analysis.
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Grace Fu = an asset? who agrees? kee chiu!
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Fu-Bar
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Distribute the pork.
No accountability of why the present agency cannot perform the task.
Create unneccessary cost on tax payer money.
Same case on the foldable bike.
They should cut the agency since they dun provide solution and do no thinking.
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Shuffle
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Creating more ministries to spend more money from taxpayers. bai jia zi! Puay kay kia! Pai kok chai!
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carry on increase inflation rate and reshuffle to create more ministries are very fun! Not his money it is our money he spends on. Increase inflation rate to maintain his high salary.
puay kay kia!
