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SPNB HOUSING FACED DELAY

2012-03-16T02:40:00.001+08:00

A QUESTION was raised in Parliament by the Kota Kinabalu MP, Hiew King Cheu concerning the issue on the many projects of the SPNB housing in Sabah; he asked on the reasons on the delay because many house buyers are being affected and much conveniences caused.

The Ministry of Finance in reply said until today there are 5 projects totalling 1998 units being completed and handed over.

To date, there is no projects undertaken by the SPNB (Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad) in Sabah being abandoned or ordered to stop work. Anyway, it is true there are 10 projects that are under construction and faced delay in the completion.

The delay is mainly due to the problems of finance difficulty resulting from the poor sale of the units to gain fund for supporting the construction work. At the same time, the rising costs of the materials in 2007 -2008 had affected the cost of construction.

There are some new projects which are going through redesigning following the new guidelines and new technology to save cost, to improve the quality and enhance an faster completion.

SPNB is at the moment taking action to complete the 10 projects that faced delayed in to complete them in stages starting from July 2012. In 2012, there will be 2,182 units of houses will be completed and 3,704 units in 2013.

MP Hiew saw this as another excuse made by the SPNB, because these projects are in the hand of the Ministry of Finance, that had been launched many years ago, why there is the problem of lack of finance, no buyers, building material price increase etc.?

In the real fact, all projects under the MOF has full allocation of fund and will not faced financial problems. There should be a fulfillment of the government promise, and not putting the people into further headache and paying to the bank for a house that is in the air.

The MOF should not just sit and wait, they should come up with the necessary money to pump into the projects to speed up the work of all the 10 delayed projects. If the government can pay BR1M RM500 up to billions ringgits, why can't they help the SPNB housing?

300,000 RAKYAT SABAH LARI KE SEMENANJUNG?

2012-03-15T13:11:00.001+08:00

Oleh : CHANG SHAK HUNG

BELIA merupakan peneraju utama negara di masa akan datang. Tidak terkecuali belia Sabah yang bakal menjadi pemimpin pelapis untuk menggantikan tampuk pemerintahan kerajaan negeri Sabah setiap kali adanya pertukaran kepeminpinan di dalam negeri.

Namun apa yang amat mendukacitakan adalah bilangan belia tempatan yang berhijrah ke Semenanjung Malaysia untuk mencari kerja, telah mengusarkan kita tentang aset yang begitu penting untuk masyarakat di negeri Sabah.

Pada pertengahan tahun 2011, Pertubuhan Kebajikan dan Kebudayaan Rakyat Sabah Semalaysia (PRSSM) melalui pengasasnya, Mohd Arshad Abd Mualap memberitahu bahawa kira-kira 300,000 rakyat Sabah bekerja di Semenanjung Malaysia dan kebanyakannya merupakan belia.

Salah satu isu utama penghijrahan ini adalah berkenaan gaji di samping harga makanan yang murah di Semenanjung Malaysia. Perkara ini memang tidak dapat dinafikan lagi dan penghijrahan ini tidak dapat dielakkan lagi memandangkan isu kenaikan harga barangan keperluan langsung tidak dapat dikawal lagi lebih-lebih lagi harga barangan di Semenanjung Malaysia dan Sabah adalah begitu ketara sekali.

Satu lagi, kegagalan kerajaan Barisan Nasional setelah isu penyelarasan harga di seluruh negara, tidak menampakkan apa-apa kesan penurunan harga sejak ia diumumkan kira-kira hampir 4 tahun yang lalu.

Inisiatif kerajaan dalam mewujudkan peluang pekerjaan kepada penduduk tempatan memang tidak dapat dinafikan dalam mengurangkan masalah pengangguran, terutamanya golongan belia di negeri ini. Gaji yang rendah dan ditambah beban dengan harga barangan yang mahal, langsung tidak menampakkan keistimewaan dari segi keperluan yang dikecapi oleh golongan belia.

Kita telahpun diberikan fakta tentang peluang untuk memiliki rumah melalui Skim Rumah Pertamaku, yang telah mencatatkan kelulusan sifar dalam meluluskan pinjaman perumahan 100% kepada belia yang tidak melepasi umur 35 tahun serta pendapatan kasar RM3,000 dan ke bawah.

Pelancaran telah dilakukan pada Mac 2011 dan belia telahpun diberikan satu ‘angan-angan kosong’ dalam mencapai impian untuk memiliki sebuah rumah sendiri.

Kita telahpun diajar untuk menyanyikan lagu 'Sabah Tanahair Ku' sejak di bangku sekolah lagi. Sehingga ke hari ini, lagu ini masih segar dalam ingatan dan dapat dinyanyikan dengan begitu baik sekali serta dihayati dengan penuh bersemangat.

“Maka itu, adalah tidak wajar sama sekali bahawa setiap kali adanya kritikan dan penambahbaikan yang diutarakan oleh golongan belia, terutamanya daripada pihak parti pembangkang seperti saya, telah dibidas sekeras-kerasnya oleh pemimpin Barisan Nasional di Sandakan khususnya ADUN dan MP, dengan memberi kesimpulan bahawa pihak parti pembangkang hanya pandai menabur fitnah dan tohmahan tanpa pandai berbuat apa-apa”.

Di dalam negara yang mengamalkan demokrasi berparlimen, kebebasan untuk bersuara seharusnya dipraktikkan secara menyeluruh dan meluas dan pihak kerajaan Barisan Nasional, seharusnya menerima hakikat bahawa kesemua rintihan dan saranan daripada golongan belia, merupakan satu platform untuk memajukan rakyat dan negeri Sabah itu sendiri; di samping tidak terpinggir dari segi arus pembangunan ekonomi, sosial dan politik di negeri yang kita cintai.

Oleh yang demikian, kesemua pemimpin akan memainkan peranannya masing-masing dengan satu tujuan sahaja iaitu ingin melihat golongan belia terus mantap dalam meneruskan tampuk pemerintahan tanpa amalan rasuah serta telus dalam membantu rakyat terutamanya penduduk setempat.

JUST $210, PRICE OF A LIFE IN AFGHAN

2012-03-15T13:09:00.002+08:00

IN AFGHANISTAN, if Nato forces kill a member of your family, it is better in terms of money if he or she comes from from Germany or Italy than the United States or Britain.

In the cold calculation of how much to pay for victims of the decade-old war, British forces have doled out as little as US$210 (RM630), while German forces have paid as much as US$25,000 (RM75,000), according to a study by the human rights NGO CIVIC.

Civilian casualties caused by Nato forces hunting insurgents are a major source of friction between the Afghan government and its Western backers - all the more so after a lone United States (US) soldier gunned down 16 Afghan villagers at the weekend.

"They have to ask themselves the question how much is one's life worth? You can't put a price on it," Rafi Nabi, 33 and unemployed, said in a market in the Afghan capital. (Agencies)

NAKED VIDEO, COUPLE FACE MORE CHARGES

2012-03-15T13:06:00.002+08:00

THE YOUNG couple charged with a naked video-chat scam face new accusations of extorting S$150,000 (RM360,000) from a student.

Yap Siew Ting, 17, and her boyfriend Alexander Soh Zhi Ren, 21, were initially accused of extorting S$6,000 (RM14,400) from 22-year-old Ng Yong Cheng.

But the figure was increased to S$150,000 in an amended charge tendered by the prosecution on Wednesday, The Straits Times reported.

The couple now face between three and 11 new charges.

They had threatened to upload Ng's nude video onto the Internet if he did not give them money.

Initially charged with extorting money from Ng by putting him in fear of injury to his reputation, the duo was held at Ang Mo Kio police division and then remanded for another week on March 7 to facilitate further investigations.

The Straits Times said the couple had tried to extort between S$1,000 (RM2,400) and S$10,000 (RM24,000) from five men by threatening to upload their nude videos on the Internet.

Soh faces another charge of failing to report for duty while being a full-time national service man in the Singapore Civil Defence Force from Aug 2010 to Feb this year.

The alleged offence occurred at Yap's home in Marsiling Drive on Jan 8. The maximum penalty for extortion is seven years' jail and caning. (The Straits Times)

PHANTOM VOTERS NOT A JOKE!

2012-03-15T09:46:00.001+08:00

By : DR CHONG ENG LEONG

ELECTION Commission (EC) Chairman said yesterday, 13,000 voters in Sabah remain ‘dubious’, mystery, and cannot remove them.

Latest Sabah’s electoral rolls have 882,000 names and estimated 200,000 of them are dubious, consider the facts below:-

1. Hassnar Ebrahim had testified in Court under oath in the 1999 Likas Election Petition trial (without being challenged), and the gist of it was reproduced in M D Mutalib’s book entitled 'IC Projek- Agenda Tersembunyi Mahathir?- (Chapter 5). The content of this Chapter was posted in Sabahkini.net few days ago drawing hundreds of comments. This was about what happened in the 80’s regarding ICs issued to foreigners through the back door.

2. Continuation of this treasonous act in the 90’s was revealed by Jabar Khan in 2007 to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Integrity and Harakah papers Jabar Khan disclosed that there was a Sabah Umno Task Force formed in 1991 and its job was to recruit foreigners who were then issued Malaysian ICs and then registered as Umno members and registered in Sabah electoral roll.

3. Datuk Radin Malleh in June 1995 in Parliament had asked for the identity of owners of the following old ICs’ numbers;-

H0288001 to H0384000

H0480001 to H0576000

H0609601 to H0610000

H0658001 to H0658200

H0658401 to H0659000

H0666001 to H0666400

Parliament did not entertain him.

4. In the 1999 Likas Election Petition trial, I exhibited proofs that phantom voters in Likas constituency then (and in Sabah generally) were holders of ICs with their old numbers as shown in (3) above. The Judge stated that the evidence adduced was tip of an iceberg and the judgment was in my favour.

Until today EC did not expunged these names with the above stated old IC numbers except 20,000 of them in year 2000 but 6,400 of these 20,000 were reinstated in 2002. How arrogant is the EC chairman to say that “the election process in this country is truly fair and winning or losing of a candidate has nothing to do with the EC”?

BENARKAH KITA ANAK NEGERI SABAH?

2012-03-15T09:43:00.002+08:00

ALBUM..... Osman (dua dari kiri) bergambar bersama-sama AJK Penganjur seminar

Oleh : SHAIMON S JUMADI Foto : SAFFIE S JUMADI

SEMINAR Sehari Kefahaman Hak Anak Negeri (NCR) yang buat pertama kalinya akan diadakan di Sandakan pada 24 Mac ini bertempat di Dewan SM Yu Yuan, Sandakan.

Seminar yang bermula dari jam 8.00 pagi hingga jam 4.00 petang adalah terbuka kepada belia-belia seluruh daerah Sandakan, Telupid, Kinabatangan dan juga Beluran dan setakat ini seramai 400 orang sudahpun mendaftar diri untuk menyertai program tersebut.

Beberapa orang penceramah yang terdiri daripada doktor, pensyarah dan peguam akan turut membentangkan beberapa kertas kerja pada seminar tersebut.

Seminar tersebut yang bertemakan 'Definasi Anak Negeri/Sijil Anak Negeri Siapa Berhak Memilikinya' anjuran bersama Angkatan Kesedaran Anak Bumiputera (AKRAB), Sekolah Pengajian Sains Sosial Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Koperasi Sukau Kinabatangan Bhd dan Koperasi Pembangunan Tanah Kampung Karamunting Bhd yang pembukaannya akan disempurnakan oleh ADUN Sukau, Datuk Saddi Abdul Rahman.

Osman Nasroh merupakan pengarah kepada seminar ini menjelaskan tujuan seminar ini diadakan adalah untuk memberikan kefahaman tentang tanah adat (NCR) di setiap sudut kampung yang diduduki.

“Ramai di kalangan bumiputera sendiri tidak memahami mendalam tentang hak-hak asasi tanah adat kepada masyarakat setempat yang menjurus kepada warisan sejak zaman nenek moyang kita yang dilahirkan di bumi Sabah yang tercinta ini.

“Pernahkah kita bertanya pada diri sendiri atau menyedari tentang pengertian istilah Bumiputera/Anak Negeri atau apakah selama ini kita hanya mendabik dada merasakan kita adalah anak bumiputera Negeri Sabah tanpa mengetahui apa hak-hak keistimewaan kita sehingga suatu ketika nanti, tanpa disedari kita akan dan bakal menjadi orang asing dan pelarian di bumi dan tanah air sendiri,” ujar Osman.

Kata Osman, segala persoalan di atas hanya akan terjawab di seminar ini dan penyertaan adalah percuma; termasuk makan minum dan sijil penghargaan daripada Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)

'EMPIRE STATE HUMAN' STOPS GROWING

2012-03-15T09:40:00.000+08:00

THANKS to treatment by researchers at the University of Virginia Medical Center, the world's tallest man may have reached his peak.

Measuring at 8-feet-3 inches (2.51 meters), 29-year-old Sultan Kosen of Turkey is listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records at the tallest living man.

Kosen visited the university in May 2010 for treatment for a disorder called acromegaly, which is usually caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Kosen was placed on a new medication that could potentially help control the production of growth hormone and stop his continued growth. According to university officials, doctors in Turkey say Kosen has stopped growing. (AP)

CHILD PORN PHOTOGRAPHER JAILED

2012-03-15T09:35:00.001+08:00

GUILTY....Glenn Roderick Holland was found guilty of being party to sexual conduct with a child.

A MAN in New Zealand has been jailed for three years after flying to Russia to take sexual photos of a seven-year-old girl.

The case is the first of its kind for New Zealand as overseas victims are never usually found, but in this case the girl and her mother flew here to give evidence in court.

Glenn Roderick Holland, 67, was sentenced in Auckland District Court on Wednesday after earlier being found guilty of being party to sexual conduct with a child, Fairfax reported.

He pleaded guilty to possession of objectionable images, which attracted a further 12 months' jail - which will be served concurrently with the three-year term.

In 2007, in Moscow the seven-year-old victim and another man were photographed under the direction of Holland.

In September 2008 the victim and her mother came to New Zealand to visit Holland and brought with them his USB drive which contained 5000 objectionable images.

The images were of girls under the age of 12 in various states of undress. They often showed both the victim and Holland naked.

Judge Chris Field said it was not safe to allow Holland back into the community.

Holland has previously been fined and served home detention for possessing objectionable material in New Zealand.

In 1988, he was sentenced to two years' jail in Australia for sexually assaulting a young girl on a photographic modelling assignment.

Judge Field said he needed to send a deterrent message "to quash the demand that fuels the international appetite for these images". (smh)

KUNDASANG DIBANJIRI PENDATANG TANPA IZIN

2012-03-15T09:26:00.001+08:00

SEORANG Ahli Parlimen Sabah meminta kerajaan menangani masalah kebanjiran pendatang asing tanpa izin (PATI) yang merunsingkan penduduk tempatan di Kundasang, iaitu sebuah pekan peranginan di pinggir Gunung Kinabalu.

Datuk Siringan Gubat (BN-Ranau) berkata kebanjiran golongan itu bakal membawa pelbagai masalah di daerah itu dan menggesa pihak berkuasa menjalankan operasi di situ.

Beliau seterusnya bertanya mengenai penubuhan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja kerana berpendapat ia boleh menyelesaikan masalah pendatang tanpa izin yang meruncing di negeri itu.

"Sehingga kini masalah pendatang tanpa izin masih berterusan dan menghantui rakyat negeri Sabah walaupun pelbagai langkah telah diambil bagi mengatasinya termasuk program 6P di peringkat persekutuan dan 5P di peringkat negeri," katanya ketika membahaskan usul Menjunjung Kasih Titah Diraja pada persidangan Dewan Rakyat di sini. (BERNAMA)

MPS SEMAKIN TIDAK RELEVAN

2012-03-15T09:24:00.002+08:00

BERLUBANG…..Jalan Kawasan Taman Mesra berlubang di sana sini tidak diambil peduli oleh MPS.

Oleh : SHAIMON S JUMADI

KEROSAKAN jalan di kawasan perumahan Taman Mesra yang berlubang di sana sini sejak setahun tidak diselenggarakan oleh Majlis Perbandaran Sandakan (MPS) telah menimbulkan kemarahan di kalangan penduduk setempat.

Seorang penduduk, Hj Andy Jakaria Pelawong berkata, masalah kerosakan jalan ini sudahpun dimaklumkan kepada pihak MPS berkali-kali, tetapi sehingga sekarang tiada sebarang reaksi atau tindakan diambil.

“Tidak dinafikan, tahun lalu pihak syarikat kontraktor yang dilantik oleh MPS datang menimbus lubang dengan batu-batu merah ke atas jalan yang berlubang-lubang itu tetapi tidak sampai sebulan, batu-batu tersebut hanyut dibawa air hujan,” jelas Hj Andy yang kesal kerana MPS tidak menampal lubang berkenaan dengan premix.

Memandangkan pilihanraya umum ke 13- (PRU-13) sudah semakin dekat, kata Haji Andy, beliau mewakili lebih 1,000 penduduk Taman Mesra merayu agar MPS mempercepatkan kerja-kerja penyelenggaraan jalan sebelum dijadikan isu dan modal propaganda politik pembangkang.

"Saya amat kesal, disebabkan perbuatan segelintir pegawai yang kurang bertanggungjawab dalam melaksanakan tugas yang diamanahkan oleh Presiden MPS Ir Datuk James Wong, maka kerajaan BN ditohmah sebagai tidak prihatin kepada rakyat," kata Haji Andy yang bimbang isu ini akan menyebabkan rakyat mengalih sokongan kepada pembangkang.

KEMAS WAJAR LANTIK GURU TADIKA LELAKI

2012-03-15T09:12:00.002+08:00

Oleh : IZZ RAMIAN MIYAN

PARTI Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) mencadangkan agar kerajaan persekutuan membina 50 buah lagi Tabika Kemas di Pensiangan kerana 35 Tabika sedia ada tidak mampu menampung jumlah murid yang semakin ramai.

Ketua Pemudanya, Khairin Bador berkata, penduduk Pensiangan kini seramai 49,500 orang menyebabkan ada murid yang tercicir daripada pendidikan pra sekolah kerana lokasi antara satu kampung dengan kampung yang lain agak berjauhan dan kekurangan guru.

Sehubungan itu, Khairin mencadangkan agar KEMAS melantik kaum lelaki sebagai guru Tabika kerana lokaliti sekolah jauh di pedalaman tidak sesuai untuk kaum wanita; dibandingkan dengan fizikal lelaki yang lebih lasak berjalan kaki dan merentas hutan di kawasan kampung yang terpencil.

"Kita tidak bermaksud memperkecilkan guru wanita, tetapi memandangkan faltor keselamatan dan kesaksamaan gender, guru lelaki berupaya menjaga keselamatan dirinya lebih baik berbanding wanita," katanya yang menjelaskan kebanyakan Tabika Kemas ini terletak di kawasan terpencil dan tidak ada jalan; malah dalam sesetengah kes, penduduk kampung menggunakan bot sebagai kenderaan dari satu kampung ke lokasi lain.

CAPAIAN INTERNET LEBIH LAJU DI SEBATIK

2012-03-15T09:06:00.001+08:00

KIRA-KIRA 3,600 penduduk Pulau Sebatik bakal menikmati capaian Internet lebih laju apabila Telekom Malaysia menyediakan kemudahan 'Streamyx Wayarless' di pulau berkenaan.

Anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri Sebatik, Abdul Muis Picho berkata buat permulaan, kemudahan itu akan disediakan di Teluk Wallace, Sungai Tongkang, Mentadak-Tamang dan Bergosong.

Beliau berkata sebelum ini, Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia (SKMM) sudah menyediakan kemudahan akses Internet kepada penduduk di situ, namun timbul beberapa masalah termasuk kualiti perkhidmatan.

"Itulah sebabnya kita mengambil pula pendekatan ini, dan untuk jangka masa panjang, kita berharap program ini dapat diperluas ke seluruh pulau.

"Kita juga berharap Projek Khas Telekom suatu masa nanti turut dapat dilaksanakan di Pulau Sebatik, menerusi kerjasama dengan pihak SKMM, seperti yang terlaksana di beberapa kawasan luar bandar lain di Sabah," katanya kepada pemberita selepas melawat Pulau Sebatik bersama pegawai Telekom Malaysia Rabu. (Bernama)

MINISTER BAGS RM100MILLION CONTRACTS! BUMIPUTERA

2012-03-15T09:02:00.003+08:00

Entrepreneurship? You bet the No 1 entrepreneur is him! First we exposed his massive timber concessions and enormous oil palm plantations, now we can detail how Assistant Minister for Entrepreneur Development, Naroden Majais, has received RM100million in government contracts for his construction company!

Readers alerted us to the graft, pointing out that the official website of the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) has posted details of a series of enormous contracts awarded to the company Embun Pelangi Sdn Bhd, of whom two of the Directors are Naroden’s wife, Massenah Binti Ahmad and son Kamaruzaman Bin Naroden.

Of course, no serving Minister should be receiving any government contracts, let alone RM100million of undeclared construction projects. Two of the three Directors are Naroden's wife and son

In fact, further research has shown that while the Simunjan Assemblyman is happy to have his family pose as directors, it is he who is the main family shareholder! With his son he commands 50% of the profits of the company that has received a staggering array of public construction contracts!

His wife may be a Director, but Naroden is the shareholder of Embun Pelangi Sdn Bhd.

The other shareholder would appear to be a qualified engineer, but what qualifications do Naroden and his son Kamaruzaman have to be receiving such huge contracts?

One suspects that this civil servant turned politician is no more qualified to take on mega construction contracts than he is to receive the vast timber and plantation concessions that are in his name. He could certainly have never legitimately earned the resources to purchase them.

Minister for Entrepreneurship!

Indeed the activities of the Naroden Majais bring a new understanding to the meaning of his boss Taib Mahmud’s enthusiasm for encouraging ‘entrepreneurship’ in Sarawak.

Mr Majais may be the Minister for Developing Entrepreneurship, but his main efforts seem to be targeted towards abusing his political influence in order to gain opportunities for himself! Below is the lengthy official list of the contracts which have been handed to this grand scale ‘political entrepreneur’:

Through the above contracts from public bodies the Minister for Entrepreneurship has received around RM100 million in taxpayers’ money!

Happy Entrepreneurs! Taib with Naroden at his side, and top BN politicians who are making so much good business out of Sarawak

One might say he is leading by example in his role as the promoter of ‘entrepreneurship’. However, of course, entrepreneurs are generally encouraged because they are wealth creators, not corrupted politicians who are putting projects into their own pockets!

Taib Mahmud’s form of political entrepreneurship has over the past 30 years and more sucked Sarawak dry of its wealth, as he and his side-kicks have remorselessly taken all there is to take and then handed themselves all the public money through contracts as well. Our readers should keep on helping us expose BN’s ‘Entrepreneurship’ in Sarawak!

UMS KENINGAU WILL BOOST INTERIOR

2012-03-15T08:49:00.002+08:00

DR BENJAMIN Yapp, Sabah DAP Parliamentary Liaison Chief for Keningau and Tenom commended on the proposal to set up UMS Campus in Apin-Apin, Keningau stated that Keningau District had been left behind in basic infrastructure development for many decades.

He stated that with the future set-up of Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) campus in Keningau District, it would ultimately boost the rural physical infrastructures and better public amenities in this part of the interior district of Sabah.

There were many school leavers who had completed their form 5-6 education in various districts in the interior but had not been given the opportunity to attend tertiary education, hence with the setting up of UMS Campus in Keningau, many students would be offered a chance to enter into our local University without having to further their higher education elsewhere.

Besides, this would inevitably contribute towards socio-economic development of the rural people. It is hoped that with better educational advancement, the rural youths would be able to contribute towards a better, self-reliant society and poverty in the rural areas would be alleviated at a great extend stated Dr Benjamin Yapp, who is also Sabah DAP Rural Development Bureau chief.

He also received several comments from parents in the rural districts in Keningau and Tenom that the proposition to set up the UMS Campus in Keningau was a good idea that would enable their children to obtain tertiary education without having to spend so much money and inconveniences on their children's future tertiary education.

Dr Benjamin Yapp suggested that the interior that was endowed with agricultural and farming aspects was also rich in arts and native cultural heritages, he proposed that UMS to introduce Research & Development faculty for arts and cultures in Keningau.

He pointed out that he was once involved in negotiations with UMS officials pertaining to the introduction of one of the richest aboriginal cultural heritages of the Gana' tribes from the interior into its extra-curriculum and programs, thus with the future setting up of UMS Campus in Keningau, the future development in eco-tourism and native cultural heritages would be further enhanced.

Besides the basic training and courses offered by UMS in Keningau District, the youths in the rural areas would have a better future when equipped with advanced education, skills and knowledge as well as researches and employment opportunities offered by the public and private sectors in various fields.

Sabah DAP urged the authorities concerned to speed up with the approval of the 80 acres available for the setting up of UMS Campus in Apin-Apin, Keningau with the allocation of Billion Ringgit for educational development for Sabah.

The rural people are now anxiously waiting to see further development in the basic rural infrastructures and a local University campus to be set up in Keningau would contribute towards many areas of rural development for the benefits of the rural communities in time to come.

BR1M, WAKE-UP CALL FOR PAKATAN?

2012-03-15T08:44:00.001+08:00

Dear Editor,

I JUST want to share my experience at the BR1M voucher presentation at the Taman Danau Desa just then (18/02/2012 at 2 pm).

I registered as a recipient for BR1M Parlimen Seputeh at 2.30pm. I notice two very huge banners carrying the words 'Undilah BN' or Vote for BN at the premises.

I was told to go inside the Dewan and I notice there were already hundreds of elderly people there (some are coming in the wheelchair). For two hours (from 2 to 4 pm) they were forced to listen to a panel of BN politicians (UMNO and MCA) giving political speeches before they could collect their vouchers. The BN politicians were glorifying themselves but condemning PR through BR1M.

I was pissed-off and walked out from the Dewan after less than 10 minutes and asked one of the BN members or staff outside the Dewan if I could just collect my voucher and leave.

I told them it was inappropriate to campaign for votes at the expense of these elderly people waiting endlessly which is definitely a big hassle for the weak old people, and I further told them I am not interested to listen to their political talk as this is not an election campaign.

Then one chinese man (very sure an MCA man) told me I can choose not to collect the money. I told him off and said the money does not belong to BN or MCA or Najib but from the taxpayers.

This man asked me if I am Teresa Kok’s supporter and started to phone his 'kaki' and took picture of me using his handphone, with an intention to harrass, threaten or frighten me, so to speak.

This is to give you an idea and 'wake-up' call on how aggressive these BN goons are. Please work harder to counter their attacks on Pakatan. Do discuss this within your Pakatan top leaders if Pakatan want to take Putrajaya come 13th GE.

I believe the same thing will happen in other BR1M voucher presentation in other areas. This is definitely a scheme for buying votes by BN.

God Bless Malaysia.

CONCERNED SEPUTEH VOTER.

DON'T PAY TRAFFIC SUMMON

2012-03-15T08:40:00.002+08:00

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ANY speeding summon from hidden camera prior to 2011 is unlawful and they cannot bring us to court and cannot blacklist us because it's not stated in the law prior to 2011. But the government con us to pay the summon by giving 50% discount; so that they can earn more money before anyone noticed this loophole.

In future they are going to get two private companies to manage the summon system. These two companies are CRONIES to gain or make more money!

How they are going to gain more money? They are going to install speed trap cameras and take commissions based on percentage of total summons paid.

Malaysia is the FIRST country in the world using PRIVATE (CRONY) companies to conduct speed traps and collect summons. All other countries use their own police to conduct such operations ! Why is this necessary? Can't the police do their basic job? Money, money and more money into someone's pockets!

How much they'll be getting? Estimated commission of RM3 billion within concession period of 5 years for that two crony companies.

Eventually, everything and every department is going to be 'privatised' to crony companies? Income Tax collection, Customs inspection and collection, health care (hospitals), Aviation control, Drainage and irrigation.

After all water and electricity, waste management, Highways, railways and MRT/LRT are already 'privatised'!

SPR TUTUP PEJABAT KERANA HABIS BORANG?

2012-03-15T08:31:00.001+08:00

DATUK Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan telah menyatakan rasa tidak percayanya bahawa Suruhanjaya Piliharaya (SPR) telah kehabisan borang pedaftaran pengundi baru.

Pengerusi STAR Sabah itu memaklumkan dia telah menerima rungutan dari para penyokong STAR di beberapa daerah yang menyatakan mereka yang mahu mendaftar sebagai pengundi baru sebelum pilihanraya akan datang tidak dapat berbuat demikian kerana telah diberitahu oleh semua Pejabat Pos di tempat mereka bahawa borang itu kononnya telah habis.

Sebagai contoh, katanya, para pemimpin STAR di Tenom telah bertanya di Pejabat Pos Tenom tetapi telah diberitahu borang telah habis dan apabila mereka menelefon Pejabat Pos Kota Kinabalu mereka diberi makluman yang sama, dan stok borang yang baru 'Belum sampai.'

“Saya tidak boleh menerima alasan bahawa SPR boleh menghadapi masalah yang begini kecil memandang SPRlah yang selama ini menggesa rakyat Malaysia agar mendaftarkan diri mereka sebagai pengundi,” katanya. “Adakah mungkin ini satu daripada banyak permainan kerajaan mengurangkan borang kerana motif-motif tertentu?”

Dia meminta SPR agar memberikan penjelasan mengenai perkara itu, untuk menerangkan kepada rakyat apa sebenarnya yang berlaku kerana masalah kehabisan borang SPR adalah sesuatu yang tidak boleh diterima sama-sekali.”

“Borang-borang ini tidaklah susah untuk dicetak, bukan seperti mengeluarkan kad pengenalan atau kad kredit,” ujarnya. “Jika sebuah akbar kebangsaan boleh mencetak sehingga 300,000 naskhah akhbarnya setiap hari, saya tidak nampak sebab kenapa sebuah organisasi kebangsaan seperti SPR boleh kehabisan borang yang berbentuk satu muka sahaja. Sepatutnya borang ini boleh dimuat turun dari laman sesawang SPR.”

“Jika benar seluruh Sabah telah kehabisan borang ini rakyat akan membuat tafsiran yang negatif dan percaya SPR mempunyai permainan tertentu,” tambahnya. “Malah, kami di STAR sekarang mensyaki mungkin ini adalah tindakan terancang untuk menghadkan atau menghentikan pendaftaran para pengundi baru di Sabah kerana ada pandangan bahawa para pengundi baru kebanyakannya bersikap anti-BN.”

AUTOSHOW DI KLIAS, SABTU INI

2012-03-15T08:28:00.002+08:00

PENGANJUR.....Zulkarnain (duduk dua kiri) bersama jawatankuasa penganjur Pertandingan Autoshow yang akan di Kg Rancangan Klias Beaufort Sabtu ini.

PERSATUAN Belia anak-anak Beaufort (PBAB), Belia Inovatif Rancangan dan Pemadam akan mengadakan Pertandingan Autoshow 1Malaysia di perkarangan Sekolah Kebangsaan Rancangan Klias di sini pada 17 Mac ini bermula jam 7.30 pagi hingga 3.00 petang.

Pengerusi Penganjur, Zulkarnain Abdullah berkata penyertaan autoshow itu terbuka kepada kereta Kancil, Viva dan Myvi. Pihak penganjur juga turut mengalu-alukan penyertaan daripada penggemar motorsikal berhias.

Program itu dijangka akan dirasmikan oleh Menteri Pembangunan Masyarakat dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna Sabah yang juga Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Klias, Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun.

Beliau berkata program yang menjurus ke arah memperkasakan transformasi belia itu diadakan sebagai salah satu usaha menyediakan pengisian masa lapang golongan belia dengan aktiviti berfaedah dan ianya diharap akan dapat menjauhkan belia daripada terjebak dengan gejala sosial.

“Program ini bukan sahaja memberi peluang kepada belia mempersembahkan perhiasan kereta mereka tetapi pihak penganjur juga turut mengadakan bengkel berkaitan ilmu autoshow.

“Kita berharap melalui program ini mereka akan mendapagt ilmu pengetahuan mengenai autoshow dan ianya akan memberi manfaat pada masa akan datang dengan menggunapakai ilmu itu untuk menjadikan sebagai sumber pendapatan baru.

“Saya yakin ilmu dan kaedah menghias kereta ini boleh menjadi sumber aspirasi perniagaan auto show kepada belia yang komited dalam mencari peluang perniagaan baru mengikut perkembangan pasaran semasa,” katanya.

Zulkarnain yang juga Pengerusi PBAB berkata pihak Pemadam juga akan menagadakan pameran dan pada sebelah pagi sesi ceramah daripada pemadam turut diadakan.

“Kita juga akan mengadakan Klinik bergerak kepada wanita, bas bergerak perpustakaan, derma darah, daftar pengundi baharu, sukaneka, pertandingan mewarna bagi kanak-kanak, acara tarik tali, pertandingan karaoke dan pameran kraftangan,” katanya.

Bagi pihak penganjur beliau mengalu-alukan penyertaan belia khususnya kepada penggemar kereta dan motorsikal berhias.

“Sesiapa yang berminat untuk menyertai pertandingan autoshow ini dialu-laukan datang dan borang penyertaan boleh didapati di kuanter urusetia pada hari tersebut seawal jam 7.30 pagi. Untuk informasi lanjut dan ingin mengambil borang penyertaan sila hubungi Ikhwan Mazlan mlelalui telefon 016 818 7653 atau 014 559 7653,” katanya sambil menjemput orang ramai datang beramai-ramai ke program tersebut.

1CARE ROADSHOW?

2012-03-15T08:24:00.001+08:00

DAP Sabah is amazed that The Health Ministry is organizing nationwide roadshows to promote 1Care national health insurance scheme.

DAP Sabah state assistant secretary Junz Wong slammed Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai that he has issued statements barely 2months ago that 1Care was only a concept, still a preliminary planning stage and kept telling the public not to speculate the issue. Now your Ministry is launching 1Care in a roadshow nationwide?

Junz claimed that 1Care is another scheme similar to GST policy, was an additional form of tax, aiming directly at the pockets of Rakyat.

This scheme if implemented, would be asking people to pay for their own healthcare so BN government can reduce National budget allocations.

Junz Wong who is also DAPSY KK assistant Youth Chief wanted Health Ministry to reveal the agendas & details on the roadshow.

Junz reminded Health Ministry that providing people with adequate healthcare and hospital facilities, is social responsibility of the ruling government.

Rakyat want Health Minister to come clean with this 1Care insurance scheme. Junz concluded.