Water, water, water, these kampung folks from Lundu and Bau are still crying out for water as the continuous dry spell is giving them a hard time.
Mordi Birmol, pa to MP Kuching, Chong Chieng Jen who went around the villagers said water shortage is not affecting every household but also the health aspect.
Some villagers, he said are forced to drink from the dirty pond when they could not get water.
The worst, he said is families with babies and pregnant women who have to drink the water from the dirty pond.
He hoped that the authority concerned would really look into the plights of these people.
Taxi drivers crowded the SUPP headquarters this morning to get their
incentive under Teksi Rakyat 1Malaysia (TR1Ma) this morning for RM520
to change their tyres.
The SUPP had opened up counters to assist drivers to fill the forms
and would forward them to KL.
Tan Kai, Youth Central Chairman of the party and Lo Khere Chiang were
there to assist the taxi drivers too.
Tan Kai said there were over 500 taxi drivers in Kuching and about
1990 taxi drivers in the state.
He said they had requested the government to help them get subsidies
for the petrol as most of the vehicles they used were petrol based.
One of the associations Chairman, Laman Hj Yassin said the taxi drivers here do work for company and all are individual drivers.
"This is our only livelihood thus we need a lot of assistance from the
government." he said.
Another Chairman, Tay Teck Min said they are thankful of the Prime Minister for being so people friendly to understand their plights.
He said they now hoped that the government would help them in petrol subsidies.
At least 300 taxis were at the party hq to fill up the forms for the TR1MA
A 43-year-old man who was returning back to his house at Mile 4 from work yesterday was assaulted and robbed.
The victim who stayed at Mile 4 said he overtook a motorcycle before the attack.
He said as he was about to reach his house, the same motorcycle he overtook blocked him.
The two got down and one of them slashed his head with a knife while the other grabbed his pouch.
The victim fearing for his life ran off leaving his motorcycle behind.
Bleeding from his wounds, he was rushed to the Sarawak General hospital by passers by.
He later went back to find his motorcycle gone.
A manageress who was having breakfast with her husband at Sg. Maong coffee shop had her right hand chopped off witnessed by the horror of coffee shop patrons and stall owners.
The victim aged 52 was a regular customer to the coffee shop every
saturday. Her husband who had gone to buy newspapers nearby rushed his
wife to the Sarawak General hospital with the hand.
The incident occurred after around 7 am today. The husband aged 60 is a pensioner.
According to some eye witnesses, about 7 men in a MV came out of the vehicle masked and armed with sharp objects.
They tried to chop off her other hand but failed. She sustained several cuts on her left hand.
An eye witness who is familiar with the victim said he is shocked at the attack. He said the victim is a nice friendly woman.
He said he believed the attack was planned as he had seen the car
before the couple arrived at the coffee shop.
Police are investigating the case.
A man injured his head after the car driven by his son collided with another vehicle at the traffic light at mile 7 today.
The accident occurred when father and son were travelling from Sibu to Kuching.
At about 1 am, when the son reached the junction of the traffic light, a car coming from Batu Kitang collided into them.
Both vehicles were badly damaged. The son and the other driver in their 20s escaped with minor injuries.
Alim bin Bujang 47 had gone into the jungle at 5 pm that day with a relative and two friends.
Dalang, Alim's father-in-law who was in the hospital said when the group went separate ways while in the jungle.
Alim, he said, tried to climb up a tree but slipped and the sound of him falling was thought to be that of a wild boar hiding in the bush.
His relative then fired a shot and was shocked to find Alim in pain near the tree.
The relative then helped Alim to his motorcycle and told him to ride to the Sri Aman hospital while he rode straight to the Sri Aman police station to surrender himself. The trip from the jungle to the hospital took about half an hour.
Dalang said it was a stupid thing to do but luckily Alim made it to the hospital and was rushed to the Sarawak General hospital for an operation.
Dalang said Alim was fortunate not hit in the heart and thus he survived.
SUPP Youth Central today urged the DAP to be gentlemen and admitted their mistakes instead of insisting they are right.
Tan Kai, SUPP Youth Central Chairman and Secretary Wilfred Yap told the press that the DAP never apply for permit to allow their banners or flags to be put up during a ceremah last Sunday. Instead, STate Assemblyman for Padungan beat about the bush on the issue.
Last Sunday at BDC, Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng gave a ceremah on Penang, good goverance.
SUPP Youth had said that Lim did not do what he preached as he had allowed the banners and flags being put up without a proper permit.
Tan Kai said the deposit for the permit is only RM50 which DAP can claimed back.
When asked if he would make a formal complaint, Tan Kai said he would not but hoped taht in future, the party would be more responsible.
Chai Ham Siong 31 was sleeping on the first floor when he woke up due to the heat and could not see anything due to the thick smoke. He had no choice but to jump from his room and suffered burn on his upper body.
A neighbour rushed him to the Sarawak General hospital where he had been placed in the intensive care unit.
A neighbour rushed to the Padungan Fire station to alert the firemen of the fire.
Fire and Rescue Department (BOMBA) received the distress call at 5.19am and two fire engine engines from Tabuan Jaya and Batu Lintang Fire Station rushed to the scene.
Deputy Bomba operation director, Farhan Sufyan Borhan said the fire was under control at 6.47 am.He said the fire walls between the shop houses were low and did not meet with the department's requirement.
The shops were almost a century old. The cause and losses of the fire is still being investigated.
The victim suffered head injuries and was robbed off her gold necklace by a lone robber.
The victim from Desa Wira said she had worked at the snooker centre in MJC for almost three years and a man came into the shop and locked the door.
Puzzled, she thought nothing of it as the man wearing a full face helmet took up a snooker cue. Then he attacked her hitting her at the back of the head. The victim said she panic and ran around the room with the suspect chasing her.
After hitting her a few more times, the cue broke and the man grabbed her and snatched her gold necklace.
The victim said she fought back and part of the gold necklace was broken.
After getting the gold necklace, the suspect ran off to a waiting motorcycle at the back of the shop.
The victim said she felt giddy after losing a lot of blood and went to the ground floor where a good Samaritan brought her to the Sarawak General hospital. A police report had been lodged.
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An administration officer from the department had just withdraw the cash from a bank and decided to go for coffee at a coffee shop at King’s centre.
The officer claimed that after his coffee break, he returned to his car to find the government’s money hid under his driver seat gone and his vehicle smashed on the front windscreen and side.
He claimed that another bag containing a camera valued RM4,000 was also gone.
A police report had been lodged.
The deceased was heading to Lundu when she collided head on with a lorry on Jambatan Sungai Kayan, Lundu.
The lorry was heading to Kuching.
Rasibah was pinned to her driver’s seat and died on the spot.
Fire and rescue department (BOMBA) took more than half an hour to bring her remains out of her mangled car.
Her remains were sent to Lundu hospital morgue for a post mortem.
Merujuk kepada kenyataan Kaunselor Engkamat Juna dalam Utusan Borneo
berkata, bahawa PAS membuat tuduhan liar dan pembohongan dalam isu
memohon MyKad penghuni rumah Sengkabang.
Untuk pengetahuan Kaunselor Engkamat, Kami mendapat maklumat dan
bertanya sendiri dengan penduduk terbabit dan ini bukan tuduhan liar
tetapi kenyataan kerana mereka sudah lama menanti Mykad dan ada
diantara mereka tiada memiliki surat beranak sejak lahir sehingga
dewasa. Isu ini dibangkit semata-mata untuk kebaikan penduduk terbabit
bukan tujuan untuk meraih undi seperti tuduhan kaunselor Engkamat.
Kalau pihak PAS tidak menyuarakan masalah ini sudah pasti perkara ini
tidak diambil perhatian oleh pihak berkuasa. Sepatutnya wakil rakyat
atau pihak yang diamanah untuk menjaga kebajikan masyarakat pergi
turun padang dan menyelesaikan masalah ini bukan menuduh dan
menyalahkan PAS kerana menyuarakan masalah rakyat.
Kalau selama ini penduduk terbabit tidak dapat pembelaan dari pihak
berwajib sepatutnya mereka sendiri turun padang dan jangan menuduh
pihak PAS datang semata-mata untuk meraih undi. Kita datang untuk
membantu menyuarakan masalah rakyat supaya pihak kerajaan dapat
bertindak dan mengatasinya.
Kalau sebelum ini tiada pihak datang menyuarakan masalah rakyat maka
sebagai sebuah parti untuk semua, kita bersedia datang untuk membantu
menyuarakan masalah rakyat agar pihak berkenaan dapat bertindak dengan
sewajarnya. Harap mereka yang menuduh PAS berbohong agar menarik balik
kenyataan tersebut kerana kita melaporkan isu-isu semasa berpandukan
maklumat dari pihak yang terbabit dan bukannya rekaan semata-mata
untuk meraih undi.
Kita tidak pernah memaksa rakyat untuk mengundi kita, bukannya macam
sesetengah pihak yang mengugut dan mengancam mereka yang tidak mahu
mengundi mereka. Hak rakyat untuk memilih kerajaan terserah dengan
kebijaksanaan pengundi masing-masing bukannya dengan rasuah seperti
membeli undi dengan wang dan janji-janji kosong. PAS berjuang untuk
kepentingan dan keadilan rakyat bukan untuk kepentingan peribadi. PAS
PAS Miri, Sarawak
PAS deliver People's Problem not lying To Regain Vote
Referring to the statement of counselor Engkamat Juna in Utusan
Borneo, said that PAS make wild accusations and lies in the issue of
apply for MyKad of Sengkabang residents.
To the attention of counselor Engkamat, we get information and ask the
rural folk itself and this is not wild allegations, but the fact that
they had been waiting for MyKad and some of them not have a birth
certificate since birth to adulthood. This issue is raised solely for
the benefit of the people involved not the purpose to gain votes as
allegations by counselor Engkamat.
If the PAS does not voice this problem of course this was not noted by
the authorities. Should be representative of the people or entrusted
to the welfare of the community go down to the field and solve this
problem is not to accuse and blame PAS for expressing the people's
If all this while the rural folk do not get support from the
authorities should be they themselves down the field and do not accuse
the PAS come merely to gain votes. We came to help voiced the people's
problems so that the government can respond and resolve it.
If before this No party comes voiced the problems of the people, as a
party for all, we are willing to come to help people voice their
problems so that the parties concerned can act accordingly. Hope those
who accuse PAS lied to withdraw the statement as we report on current
issues based on information from parties involved and not designed
solely to gain votes.
We never force the people to vote for us, not like some people who
intimidate and threaten those who do not want to vote for them.
People's right to choose their own government is up with wisdom of
voters respectively instead of corruption, such as buying votes with
money and empty promises. PAS fought for justice and the interests of
the people not for personal gain.
PAS for all
PAS Miri Chief cum PAS Sarawak Deputy Commissioner iii
PKR Election committee Chairman, Abang Zulkifli Abang Engkeh paid a visit to the fire victim in Sebuyau this morning.