The Garbage Saga from Paradise
August 26, 2018
In 1977, when JR Jayewardene launched the Free Trade Zone he famously proclaimed ‘Let the Robber Barons come’. With his kinsman as Prime Minister today, we are inviting more than Robbers. We are calling the Dirty Destroyer Barons.
The Garbage Barons from Singapore are invited to make a Hellhole of Garbage, in what is known through history as this ‘Other Paradise’.
This desire for Singaporean Garbage began with the election of the Yahapalana in January 2015. It did not take long for a Sri Lankan born Singapore resident Robber and Garbage Baron, to be given the keys to the Central Bank. The robberies that took place at the Central Bank, known today as the Bond Scam, is a part of the huge garbage of politics and government that prevails here.
The Presidential Commission on the Bond Scam exposed Garbage Mahendran and his political backers here. We had a Finance Minister whose Penthouse rent was paid by such garbage funds. The Prime Minister was hardly asked any garbage dealing questions at the Commission.
Our desire for Singaporean dirt was such that Garbage Mahendran was kept in an office of the Prime Minister, after his crooked time at the Central Bank ended.
Singapore is a frequent stop for our politicians – for brief holidays, health facilities, and no doubt for plans to increase the load of garbage here. We have signed a Free Trade Agreement with that huge garbage source in Asia, to dump loads of it in this country. It could very well be ten times that of Meethotamulla, and keep rising, as Singapore keeps getting cleaner.
We are told it is only a clause in the FTA, which does not mean all that garbage, including highly dangerous stuff, would come here. Come on, then why include it in the FTA?
Did those who drafted it not know that China, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia have stopped taking foreign garbage? Was China with its One Belt – One Road that we talk so much about, not a good example to follow? Did we have to do better than China, and tell the world that we are the Dumping Ground in South Asia?
There is much to be bothered with the possibility of Singaporean garbage being dumped here. It is the reality of our own garbage. Don’t we have enough, already? Just think of the garbage in politics. Those side-jumping, highly forgetful, salary hike hunting, commission seeking, cheque encashing, perpetually crooked politicians, so well supported by the crooked and dirty officials waiting for the next leap into dirty profit.
We keep hearing about Singapore being a clean country – in politics and government. We hear about how Lee Kwan Yew, its first national leader, was so impressed with the Sri Lanka of his early days much. Have any of our leaders ever thought of asking Singapore to give lessons or guidelines to our politicians on managing a clean government. What nonsense. We seek their garbage.
Isn’t it funny that President Sirisena has appointed a committee to study the Singapore- Sri Lanka FTA that has already been signed? That is presidential stuff in this land of dirty wonders. Didn’t the President, who is the Minister in charge of Environment, know anything about the Dirty Dumps from Singapore? Was he not bothered because of the heavy garbage in our governance?
Now that we are in this Garbage Dumping Free Trade Agreement, why not make a special proposal to Singapore. We can certainly hit the headlines the world over with this novel garbage deal.
Can we export and dump all our corrupt, crooked and dirty politicians in Singapore, in exchange for their garbage?
Getting rid of all this garbage in our politics and governance will be a great relief to this country. We may be able to go back to even before independence 70 years ago, and make a good re-start in governance. Getting rid of such a huge burden from this country, will give us both time and good thinking, on how we could handle the Singaporean Garbage. Singapore, with its good record on handling corruption, will surely be able to put such political garbage in the places they would never come out, and burden any other society.
Caught in this huge Garbage Trap, why not think of a fair exchange of dirty garbage? Your dirt for our dirt. Shiploads of your physical garbage, and planeloads of our political garbage. The Garbage Saga from Paradise.
The Garbage Barons from Singapore are invited to make a Hellhole of Garbage, in what is known through history as this ‘Other Paradise’.
This desire for Singaporean Garbage began with the election of the Yahapalana in January 2015. It did not take long for a Sri Lankan born Singapore resident Robber and Garbage Baron, to be given the keys to the Central Bank. The robberies that took place at the Central Bank, known today as the Bond Scam, is a part of the huge garbage of politics and government that prevails here.
The Presidential Commission on the Bond Scam exposed Garbage Mahendran and his political backers here. We had a Finance Minister whose Penthouse rent was paid by such garbage funds. The Prime Minister was hardly asked any garbage dealing questions at the Commission.
Our desire for Singaporean dirt was such that Garbage Mahendran was kept in an office of the Prime Minister, after his crooked time at the Central Bank ended.
Singapore is a frequent stop for our politicians – for brief holidays, health facilities, and no doubt for plans to increase the load of garbage here. We have signed a Free Trade Agreement with that huge garbage source in Asia, to dump loads of it in this country. It could very well be ten times that of Meethotamulla, and keep rising, as Singapore keeps getting cleaner.
We are told it is only a clause in the FTA, which does not mean all that garbage, including highly dangerous stuff, would come here. Come on, then why include it in the FTA?
Did those who drafted it not know that China, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia have stopped taking foreign garbage? Was China with its One Belt – One Road that we talk so much about, not a good example to follow? Did we have to do better than China, and tell the world that we are the Dumping Ground in South Asia?
There is much to be bothered with the possibility of Singaporean garbage being dumped here. It is the reality of our own garbage. Don’t we have enough, already? Just think of the garbage in politics. Those side-jumping, highly forgetful, salary hike hunting, commission seeking, cheque encashing, perpetually crooked politicians, so well supported by the crooked and dirty officials waiting for the next leap into dirty profit.
We keep hearing about Singapore being a clean country – in politics and government. We hear about how Lee Kwan Yew, its first national leader, was so impressed with the Sri Lanka of his early days much. Have any of our leaders ever thought of asking Singapore to give lessons or guidelines to our politicians on managing a clean government. What nonsense. We seek their garbage.
Isn’t it funny that President Sirisena has appointed a committee to study the Singapore- Sri Lanka FTA that has already been signed? That is presidential stuff in this land of dirty wonders. Didn’t the President, who is the Minister in charge of Environment, know anything about the Dirty Dumps from Singapore? Was he not bothered because of the heavy garbage in our governance?
Now that we are in this Garbage Dumping Free Trade Agreement, why not make a special proposal to Singapore. We can certainly hit the headlines the world over with this novel garbage deal.
Can we export and dump all our corrupt, crooked and dirty politicians in Singapore, in exchange for their garbage?
Getting rid of all this garbage in our politics and governance will be a great relief to this country. We may be able to go back to even before independence 70 years ago, and make a good re-start in governance. Getting rid of such a huge burden from this country, will give us both time and good thinking, on how we could handle the Singaporean Garbage. Singapore, with its good record on handling corruption, will surely be able to put such political garbage in the places they would never come out, and burden any other society.
Caught in this huge Garbage Trap, why not think of a fair exchange of dirty garbage? Your dirt for our dirt. Shiploads of your physical garbage, and planeloads of our political garbage. The Garbage Saga from Paradise.
