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These articles describe the various policies of the Government of Singapore and address the motivation, issues, deliberation, implementation and effect of these policies. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The cabinet in Singapore collectively decides the government's policies and has influence over lawmaking by introducing bills. Ministers in Singapore are the highest paid politicians in the world, receiving a 60% salary raise in 2007 and as a result Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's pay jumped to S$3.1 million, five times the US$400,000 earned ...
William Farquhar, who served as the first resident of Singapore from 1819 to 1823. On 30 January 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles, an Englishman who was the Governor of Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia), entered into a preliminary agreement with the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah, for the British East India Company to establish a "factory" or trading post on the island of Singapore.
The Separation of powers in Singapore is governed by Constitution of the Republic of Singapore, which splits the power to govern the country between three branches of government – the parliament, which makes laws; the executive, which executes them; and the judiciary, which enforces them.
The Government of Singapore consists of several departments, known as ministries and statutory boards in Singapore.Ministries are led by a member of the Cabinet and deal with state matters that require direct political oversight.
Thus, a constitutional commission headed by Sir George Rendel was set up in 1953 to recommend changes in the constitutional system, with the aim of increasing widespread participation in the central and local government of Singapore. [16] The Government accepted most of the Rendel Commission's recommendations in its report of February 1954.
Singapore government policies (3 C, 38 P) L. Law of Singapore (13 C, 4 P) M. Military of Singapore (21 C, 25 P, 14 F) P. Political office-holders in Singapore (8 C, 3 P)
Singapore inherited a Westminster system of government from the British.In such systems, there is an overlap between the executive and legislative branches of government. The head of state, who is the president of Singapore, is a member of both the executive Government of Singapore and the Parliament of Singapore but plays a minimal role in them.