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SINGAPORE: The Labor Movement will not accept the offer to operate the Bukit location of the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) as a public golf course when its lease expires on December 31, 2021 due to “financial considerations”.
Keppel Club, whose lease for its Bukit Chermin site expires on December 31 of next year, has been offered the opportunity to operate the public field with SICC from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2030, it said the Ministry of Law and the Ministry of Culture. Community and Youth (MCCY) in a joint statement on Wednesday (October 7).
In 2014, it was announced that the National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) would be offered the opportunity to manage one of the two 18-hole golf courses at SICC’s Bukit location as a public golf course, upon the expiration of its contract for lease.
It was intended to be “operated by the Labor Movement for the benefit of the general public and the labor movement,” the Ministry of Law had said at the time.
He added: “This will ensure continued public access to the golf facilities when the Marina Bay golf course is phased out for redevelopment.”
“However, to ensure the extension of the 18-hole course in Bukit, SICC will have to work with the Labor Movement and conclude an agreement by the end of February 2015 on how the courses can be reconfigured and the necessary arrangements for the exchange of facilities. “.
“FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS”
However, authorities noted in a joint statement on Wednesday that NTUC had already withdrawn from the offering.
“The Labor Movement has informed us that, after a review, the Labor Movement has evaluated 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 , ”He read the joint statement.
“With the withdrawal of the Labor Movement, there is a need for another party to operate the public golf course at SICC-Bukit after the SICC lease expires.”
The statement added that Keppel Club had the necessary experience and knowledge, and that its involvement in the operation of the public course would provide access to golf to a broader base of local golfers.
“Keppel’s participation will be conditional on 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 added that the Government “remains prepared” to offer the SICC a renewal of the lease contract for the other 18-hole course in SICC-Bukit until December 31, 2030, if both clubs manage to reach an agreement on the exchange. of the fields in SICC. -Bukit.
The SICC currently has two more golf courses at its location on the island.
CNA has contacted SICC and NTUC for more information.
