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Amid pandemic, unemployment and small business bankruptcy curves need flattening

Published Thu, Apr 30, 2020 · 09:50 PM

THIS May Day, it is imperative that we thank our essential services and frontline workers, and especially the migrant workers who come to Singapore to build our beautiful city. These migrant workers earn low wages, live in cramped quarters and now have the highest number of Covid-19 cases on the island state.

Their families back home must be worried about their health and well-being, and I hope they take comfort in Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's commitment that "we …

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