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» Saturday, May 22, 2010 / -1:45 PM

Economic Architect of Singapore

22 May 2010
Dr Goh Keng Swee (1918 - 2010), a father of Singapore passed away last Friday (14 May) at a age of 91.
He was a person who develop Singapore into a prosperous nation today. In his years in the political, he contribute greatly to Singapore. He was once a minister in finance, education and defence.

He was given the duty as a minister after Singapore gained its self-government. As a Minister of Finance, he make every Singaporeans life better by creating more jobs and creating a place for industries. Jurong is a place where he develop for industries. This was not enough, he also drew in more and more foreign investments to Singapore. That is why we have a strong economy today!

Singapore gained independence and he was a Defence Minister. As we have in our Social Studies, he was the one who created National Service (NS) and why is that so? We also learn that at that time, Singapore had a very little population, manpower also needed in industries and etc.

He was also a Minister of Education. He was the one who set up a better education system. He set up streaming and religious class to solve the drop out rate of students.

His last post was given as a Deputy Prime Minister in 1980. He decided to retire from politics in 1984 which actually shocked many people especially the ministers etc because of his great contribution to the nation.

As a Singaporean, we must remember him forever. He was the one who build Singapore. Without him, many Singaporeans will not have such good quality of life today. We must cherish what we have today, a good life, a good living environment, a good education etc.