| The council for Third Age: a new mediator between seniors and the ...
The council for Third Age will allow a centralization of the various organisations offering activities to seniors. The council will also support financially some programmes to keep Singapore's ageing population healthy and active. The Centre will hear the seniors'views and recommendations on active ageing, and present them to the government. Gerard Ee will chair the council, pulling together various groups in organising activities for seniors. Veteran social worker Gerard Ee, 57, belongs to what he describes as the Third Age. He will chair a council for Third Age, which will pull together the work of myriad groups organising activities and programmes for seniors. It will also help them network and make new friends.
A staff of about 15 will help him with his task and they will operate out of Junction 8 in Bishan.
Firefighters seek public support
Louisville Fire & Rescue firefighters stood outside the Galt House yesterday evening handing out fliers in an effort to enlist public support in their two-year bid to settle a contract dispute with the city. Firefighters also will be at Derby events this weekend, including Thunder Over Louisville, to publicize that they have worked on an expired contract for two years. .
Flap over missing library book heading to court
The case of the missing library book will be going to trial after all, after a court-sponsored mediation failed to reach a resolution between the Linden Public Library and two officers of the Linden Historical Society. Two weeks ago, the library's director, Dennis Purves, filed a criminal complaint against historical society President Beatrice Bernzott and Vice President Rebecca Kerins-Tattoli for refusing to return "History of Linden," a four-volume set borrowed in 2004. Historical society members have countered that the book was getting abused and is better kept in the society's vault. Bernzott also claims the book was given to the society by former Mayor John Gregorio. Both parties were called to municipal court on Wednesday night for a mediation, but after the session was over they reported to the judge that no agreement had been reached, said municpal court administrator Elizabeth Gavigan.
FG is avoiding negotiation, says ASUU
The prolongation of the current strike by University teachers has been attributed to Federal Government's strategy of avoiding negotiation needed to break the deadlock. “We must continue our resolve to force government to negotiate and sign agreement with ASUU not merely to ‘keep us talking'. Government aims to keep ASUU taking until the elections come. Then negotiation would have been overtaken by events. This is government's strategy to avoid negotiation," the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said in its latest bulletin on the strike which began on 26th March, 2007. The union added: “To this we say NO! We should not succumb to government blackmail." ASUU reiterated that the ongoing strike is indefinite, total, and comprehensive, hence, no teaching of any kind, no attendance of all statutory or ad hoc committee meetings including council, senate, faculty/college board, department board meetings etc.
F1 Customer Car controversy continues
We've seen one Formula 1 race already and the next is set this weekend, and yet there's still no decision on the legality of the customer cars of both Super Aguri and Toro Rosso, and despite the Malaysian race stewards deciding that there should be no action against the teams for this individual race, Bernie Ecclestone is working to try and resolve the situation this weekend. On Thursday Spyker were waiting to see what was happening to their protest they raised against the two customer car teams. During Thursday it seems that Spyker raised a protest after the Toro Rosso car had undergone preliminary scrutineering. This row has been ongoing for some time now, something you can read more on under F1 Teams threaten legal action against each other and Berger and Williams argue over F1 cars legality.
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