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Best Available Rate (BAR), also known as Best Rate Guaranteed (BRG), is a pricing mechanism used by hotels and hotel chains. It was introduced as a result of the hotel industry mimicking the airline industry, which sets price by forecasting demand. There are several interpretations and executions of BAR in the hotel industry.
Balestier hired a number of immigrants on his estates. [1] [2] Chinese and Indian workers laboured these crops. When Balestier left Singapore due to a health breakdown after the deaths of his son and wife in 1844 and 1847, he sold his plantation to Singapore authorities and the land was leased out to Chinese farmers.
Balestier Point is a high-rise mixed-use development in Balestier, Singapore with retail outlets on the lower floors, and residential units in the upper floors.
Porridge is a dish made by boiling ground, crushed, or chopped starchy plants—typically grain—in water, milk or both. Porridge may also refer to: Porridge (1974 TV series), a British situational comedy set in a prison; Porridge, a 1979 film derived from the 1974 TV series
Balestier was a constituency represented in the Legislative Council of Singapore from 1951 until 1955. In 1955, the constituency was abolished and split into Cairnhill , Farrer Park , Serangoon and Whampoa constituencies.
Charles Wolcott Balestier (December 13, 1861 – December 6, 1891) was a promising American writer, editor, and publisher who died young, and is now remembered primarily for his connection to Rudyard Kipling.
Porridge (U.S. title: Doing Time) is a 1979 British comedy film directed by Dick Clement and starring Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay and Brian Wilde. [4] It was written by Clement and Ian La Frenais based on their BBC television series Porridge (1974–1977). Most of prison officers and inmates from the original series appear ...
Joseph Balestier (19 Mar 1788–12 Nov 1858), was a planter and merchant who was the first United States consul in Rhiau and in Singapore. [1] In 1849, he was appointed Envoy and Diplomatic Agent of the United States to South Eastern Asia.