Taxi driver, Nadasan Chandra Secharan, was punched several times in the face after being accused by a Filipino couple for “queue jumping” at a NTUC FairPrice supermarket in Yishun Ave 11.
The attack left the 56 year-old cabby with a fractured jaw.
The assault was carried out by the husband of the Filipino pair, a 31 year-old Mr Benedict Policarpio Cortez who is a permanent resident working as a waiter in Singapore.
Mr Secharan was paying for his groceries at the cashier of the supermarket when he realised that he had forgotten to get a bottle of jam. He then excused himself for a moment to quickly run back to the shelf to grab one.
Upon returning to the cashier, he noticed a Filipino woman, Cortez’s wife, mumbling and staring at him. Mr Secharan then tried to explain to her that he wasn’t cutting queue and that he was in fact already at the cashier counter earlier. However, she promptly told him to shut up.
The duo then started arguing and it was about this time that Cortez showed up to join in the argument. Things turned from bad to worse.
Cortez then grabbed Mr Secharan’s bag of groceries and proceeded to walk out of the supermarket. Mr Secharan went after him to try get back his groceries. This was when Cortez turned violent and rained punches on Mr Secharan’s face.
As a result of the punches, the poor cabby was warded for four days at the Khoo Teck Huat Hospital.
On Thur (16 Feb), Cortez was sentenced by the Court to a one-month jail term for hurting the cabby. The Filipino waiter was also ordered to compensate Mr Secharan for his medical expenses.
It is not known if the Filipino will lose his PR as a result of his conviction.
The question remains, how did this Filipino waiter obtain his PR? Why was the PAP government giving PR to a waiter? Wouldn’t a W-Pass or S-Pass suffice? Do we consider a waiter, a talent? Perhaps Mr Cortex can also sing, dance, juggle and ride a unicycle while serving as a waiter?
Due to the indiscriminate giving out of permanent residencies to foreigners by the PAP government, the PR population has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years:
| Year | No of PR in SG | % incr |
| 2005 | 386,800 | 8.6% |
| 2006 | 418,000 | 8.1% |
| 2007 | 449,200 | 7.5% |
| 2008 | 478,200 | 6.5% |
| 2009 | 533,200 | 11.5% |
| 2010 | 541,000 | 1.5% |
| 2011 | 532,000 | -1.7% |
[Source: DOS]
It was not until 2010 when Singaporeans started to voice out their unhappiness openly about the foreign influx as well as GE was approaching that the PAP government started to tighten the screws on granting of PRs.
However, the damage has already been done. It is not known how many unqualified talents who “slipped” into Singapore in earlier years still remain inside the PR population to this date.
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February 17th, 2012 | 
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