Are we serious about 2nd chances??
Read from the news that a deliveryman was banned from delivering seafood to a 5-star++ hotel during the IMF world bank period..for security reasons...despite the fact that he has been doing this for the past 4 years.
Why???
Because he was an ex-convict, who served 4 years in jail and suffered 24 strokes of the rattan in the 1970s for killing another person during a gang fight. He has been out since the 80s and has a clean record since then. For the past 6 years that he has been with his current company, he is seen as a model worker by his boss.
Why are we drumming up the hype about the yellow ribbon project, asking the society to give ex-convicts a second chance when in reality, we don't really mean it? Is it all talk only? It disgusts me.
I acknowledge the fact that the IMF event is a mega event for SG and alot of work is out in the ensure that absolutely nothing goes wrong during the event. That is reasonable....although it includes collecting 4 million smiles, re-decorating the convention centre, taking hundreds of civil servants away from their work and be trained intensively just to be liaison officers for the delegates and their spouses and now, security-screening everyone that will be in the teeniest contact with the delegates or the places where they will set foot in - and woe to those who cannot clear the screening. Out you go - disappear from the face of SG for that period so that it will not stain the goody image of the beautiful island city with perfect people.
Read the article yourself and draw your own conclusions.
Why???
Because he was an ex-convict, who served 4 years in jail and suffered 24 strokes of the rattan in the 1970s for killing another person during a gang fight. He has been out since the 80s and has a clean record since then. For the past 6 years that he has been with his current company, he is seen as a model worker by his boss.
Why are we drumming up the hype about the yellow ribbon project, asking the society to give ex-convicts a second chance when in reality, we don't really mean it? Is it all talk only? It disgusts me.
I acknowledge the fact that the IMF event is a mega event for SG and alot of work is out in the ensure that absolutely nothing goes wrong during the event. That is reasonable....although it includes collecting 4 million smiles, re-decorating the convention centre, taking hundreds of civil servants away from their work and be trained intensively just to be liaison officers for the delegates and their spouses and now, security-screening everyone that will be in the teeniest contact with the delegates or the places where they will set foot in - and woe to those who cannot clear the screening. Out you go - disappear from the face of SG for that period so that it will not stain the goody image of the beautiful island city with perfect people.
Read the article yourself and draw your own conclusions.
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