Feb 11, 2020Nominated MP (NMP) Who says you need to be a politician to be in Parliament? Well, not if you’re a Nominated MP. NMPs were introduced in 1990 to represent...
Feb 11, 2020Group Representation Constituency (GRC) No, GRC doesn’t stand for Grassroots Committee. There are two kinds of constituencies in Singapore: Single Member Constituencies (SMCs)...
Feb 9, 2020Party WhipNo, he does not do the Nae Nae Think of the Party Whip as the discipline master of a political party. But instead of caning party members...
Feb 9, 2020Committee of Supply (CoS)Sounds like some highly exclusive committee or some sort of Gentlemen's Club? It's actually the opposite. If you're a Member of...
Feb 9, 2020Manifesto It’s a lengthy document written by political parties to tell you why you should vote for them. If you’re too busy to attend election...
Feb 9, 2020Non-Constituency MP (NCMP)Not all is lost for opposition politicians who fail to get elected during a general election. They may have lost the right to represent...
Feb 9, 2020First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) Otherwise known as ‘winner takes all’, a first-past-the-post electoral system is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate...
Feb 9, 2020Returning Officer The Returning Officer’s main job is to oversee the organization of an election and ensure that the process is fair. Under his watch,...
Feb 9, 2020Speaker of Parliament The Prime Minister is not the biggest fish in Parliament, it’s the Speaker. Think of him as a judge in a court. In fact, before 1993,...
Feb 7, 2020The time I was accused of invading my neighbours’ privacy A booming voice interrupted my interview. I had gone to my ward’s meet-the-people session to suss out the sort of problems people bring...
Feb 7, 2020Chee Soon Juan’s words over my abandoned phone It was my first time reporting on a court case. We were at the High Court, assigned to cover the Singapore Democratic Party’s appeal...
Feb 7, 2020To be a reporter means to learn to stalk We sat at a bus stop in Bedok, unsure of how to proceed with our assignment. Madam had told us to tag along with the Workers’ Party (WP)...
Feb 7, 2020Did we just get spied on?He typed away on his phone, constantly stealing glances at our table. I didn’t know at first, until I noticed my classmate Alvina...