- Requiem for an unbending Singaporean OPINION March 26, 1999 Singapore's former president, C. V. Devan Nair, writes about opposition leader J. B. Jeyaretnam and his political party: the Workers' Party. RELATED: Singapore Court asked to wind up Workers' Party Jeyaretnam faces bankruptcy court again Chia tries to understand past while figuring out future Singapore's gentle revolutionary A SERIOUS ...www.singapore-window.org/sw99/90321dn.htm