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SINGAPORE – The National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) will not accept the offer to manage the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) Bukit location as a public golf course due to financial considerations, the Ministry of Law and Ministry of Culture said, Community and Youth in a joint press release on Wednesday (October 7).
The ministries said that the union movement, after a review, “assessed that it could not accept the offer to operate the course with the SICC from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2030, given financial considerations.”
Instead, Keppel Club, whose lease at Bukit Chermin expires on December 31 next year, has been offered the opportunity to operate the public golf course for the same period.
“Keppel has the necessary experience and knowledge, and his involvement in the operation of the public course will provide access to golf to a broader base of local golfers,” the joint statement said.
“Keppel’s participation will be conditional on the acceptance of the terms and conditions for the operation of the public course, which will be established by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth and Sports of Singapore.”
The ministries said the government “remains willing to offer the SICC a renewal of the lease of the other 18-hole course at SICC-Bukit until December 31, 2030, if both clubs can reach an agreement on the exchange of the fields in SICC. -Bukit “.
In 2013, the Government informed the SICC that it would not extend the lease of its location in Bukit. Following an appeal from the club, it allowed the renewal of the lease for one of its fields in Bukit until 2030, and the other field was made public. A year later, it was announced that NTUC would be offered the opportunity to run the public course in Bukit.
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