Sekali lagi Temerloh dan Pantai Timur dilupakan dalam Budget

Nampaknya kerajaan UMNO-BN sekali lagi tidak khuatiri negeri-negeri Pantai Timur, dan negeri-negeri lain kecuali Kuala Lumpur.

Jika dilihat, landasan keretapi dan perkhidmatan keretapi Pantai Timur, nyata tidak ada landasan-landasan baru dirancang atau dibina sejak kemerdekaan. Di negara-negara membangun, tumpuan diberikan untuk menambahkan lagi sistem landasan keretapi supaya seseorang boleh pergi antara bandar-badar dengan mengunakan keretapi. Landasan-landasan juga diperbaiki supaya boleh digunakan oleh keretapi-keretapi yang lebih pantas and cekap. 

Malangnya, kini pun kita tidak ada landasan keretapi menyambung bandar-bandar utama Pantai Timur saperti Kota Bharu ke Kuala Trengganu ke Kuantan ke Pekan ke Mersing ke Johor Bahru.

Tidak ada landasan keretapi daripada Pantai Timur ke Pantai Barat Semenanjung - Kota Bahru ke Alor Star ke Pulau Pinang, atau daripada Kuantan ke Temerloh ke Kuala Lumpur.

Tumpuan kerajaan hanya nampaknya di Kuala Lumpur - di mana pada tahun akan datang pun RM40 billion akan dibelanjakan untuk 'Mass Rapid Transit System' . Bukankah ke Kuala Lumpur sudah ada sistem LRT dan perkhidmatan KTM Komuter - dan sistem 'highway' yang sudah mencukupi? Pembangunan harus dibahagikan sama rata kepada segala pelusuk negara dan tidak hanya ditumpukan di Kuala Lumpur (atau Lembah Klang). 

Dengan sistem landasan keretapi yang lebih baik, pihak 'investor' juga akan lebih berminat membuka kilang-kilang - kerana barangan lebih senang di hantar dari kilang ke pelabuhan dan sebagainya. Rakyat juga akan mendapatkan sistem pengangkutan awam yang lebih baik. Kini perjalanan daripada Temerloh ke Johor Bahru mengunakan keretapi memakan masa lebih kurang 5 - 6 jam, di mana ini dapat dikurangkan kepada 2 atau 3 jam jika landasan dan keretapi yang digunakan diperbaiki. 

Kuala Lumpur...(Putrajaya) sudah menerima banyak daripada jana rakyat - dan keadilan memerlukan kerajaan membawakan pembangunan ke kawasan Temerloh dan kawasan-kawasan Pantai Timur yang lain.

Dengan senang, sistem 'tram' boleh dimulakan di Temerloh - dan dengan kemudahan pengangkutan awam yang efisyen, ramai akan mengunakannya dan kereta akan kurang digunakan. Ini akan menjimatkan kos rakyat, mengurangkan jumlah minyak petrol yang digunakan dan juga lebih baik untuk alam sekitar.

Kerajaan BN Pahang telah mendiskriminasikan rakyat mengikut keturunan? Kita menunggu jawapan...

Chuah Boon Seong, ADUN Mentakab, telah hadhir di Kampung Lubuk Layang, Batu 3, Jalan Mentakab, Temerloh pada malam ini untuk mengadakan acara temu bual dengan penduduk setempat.

Beberapa soalan telah dikemukankan kepada beliau, dimana satu daripada soalan adalah:-

1- Sumbangan Tahun Baru Cina dan Deepavali untuk Warga Mas tahun 2010

Menurut YB, peruntukan sumbangan untuk warga mas telah datang daripada kerajaan Negeri Pahang, kerajaan BN.

Isu: Mengapa warga mas keturunan India menerima hanya RM100, dan warga mas keturunan Cina mendapat RM150. Ada beberaga wargamas Cina yang hanya mendapat RM100? Mengapa kerajaan 1Malaysia berdiskriminasikan orang menurut keturunan?

Jawapan: Saya tidak tahu. Saya mesti cari jawapan. Ini tidak betul. 

Soalan: Bila akan beritahu kami?

Jawapan: Jangan khuathir - you boleh hubungi saya dan saya akan memberitahu. Saya senang dihubungi - emel, talipon

Respon: Boleh terus memaklumkan kepada ketua kampung

Soalan: Ada juga warga mas yang tidak menerima jemputan atau wang sumbangan kerajaan tersebut... Masih boleh dapat

Tiada jawapan khusus - cakap ahli politik putar belit.

Sekarang, kita terpaksa menunggu untuk mendapat jawapan ADUN BN-MCA itu...

Yang nyata wang sumbangan itu datang daripada kerajaan BN Negeri Pahang - jadi persoalannya adakah kerajaan BN ini telah mendiskriminasi rakyat berasaskan kaum. Atau adakah orang bawahan yang memasukkan wang kedalam sampul surat telah memasukkan sebahagian ke salam poket sendiri - di mana lapuran polis atau MACC perlu dibuat.

Jurang antara yang kaya dan miskin semakin lama bertambah

Jurang antara yang kaya dan miskin semakin lama bertambah dibawah pentadbiran kerajaan BN-pimpinan UMNO, yang telah memerintah sejak kemerdekaan.

Kerajaan nampaknya lebih memihak kepada golongan korporat dan yang kaya, dan tidak memedulikan kebajikan mereka yang miskin, rendah pendapatan atau daripada kawasan-kawasan selain daripada Kuala Lumpur dan bandar-bandar besar. 

Satu cara untuk memastikan keadilan adalah untuk mengenakan cukai yang lebih tinggi untuk mereka yang berpendapatan tinggi....

Saya terjumpa satu rencana dalam bahasa Inggeris daripada Persatuan Penguna Pulau Pinang(CAP) yang memberikan maklumat mengenai penambahan jurang di antara yang kaya dan yang miskin

CAP : Resolve widening income disparity gap now

Resolve widening income disparity gap now

The difference between what the rich and the poor earn (the income disparity gap) remains wide and needs the government’s urgent attention.

In a fair and just society, economic growth should benefit everyone.  Unfortunately this is not happening in Malaysia in spite of years of economic growth. We have now an aristocracy of wealth where a small group of Malaysians are very rich (22 billionaires at the last count) whilst many others are barely scrapping by. We have on one hand people living in spacious multi-million ringgit homes whilst on the other hand there can be as many as 21 people crammed together  in a low cost flat.

The statistics prove that the inequality gap is a major problem:

•  The bottom 40% of households have an average income of RM1,222 whilst the top 20%  households earn an average of RM8,157 

•  58% of households earn less than RM3,000 per month. (In 2009, the government decided that any urban household with less than RM3,000 would  be considered poor)

•  Income growth has been strong only for the top 20% of Malaysian income earners, particularly since 1990

•  The disparity within the urban group remains high with no improvements in the last decade

In 2007, Malaysia’s Gini coefficient was 0.441 in 2007, an improvement of 0.462 was made in 2004.  However in 1990, the Gini coefficient was 0.442, which means that we have hardly made any progress in addressing the problem of income inequality since that time. (Gini coefficient is a measure of inequality ranging from 0 to 1, with 0 representing absolute equality and 1 representing absolute inequality);

Much needs to be done to enable both the rural and urban poor to break from the vicious circle of poverty. Being poor, they face problems relating to nutrition, health and education. A significant portion of Malaysian children are undernourished with about 15% found to be underweight and stunted. When these children grow up without good academic qualifications, they end up with jobs that do not pay decent wages. They remain poor like their parents and so will their children and grandchildren unless the chain of poverty is broken.

It is not only a question of equity that all Malaysian should get to share the country’s economic growth. If the problem of economic disparity is not seriously looked into, it will lead to social problems for example increase in crime rates. Furthermore, the more equal societies grow faster than less equal ones.

The unresolved income disparity gap clearly shows that we have a structural problem. We should stop pursuing the model of economic development imported from the west but instead adopt a model which meets our own needs and beneficial to all sectors of the population

Thus the government should be spending more money on education and health care programmes specifically designed to help the poor.  It should also decrease disparities between rural and urban investments by ensuring that employment opportunities are more widely available in the rural areas.

Funds that are needed to run programmes to narrow the income inequality gap should come from the very rich, who after all have a moral obligation to help their less fortunate country men.

We recommend the following taxes be used to narrow the income inequality gap:

a) Inheritance tax/estate duty

Introduce either inheritance tax (which will be paid by the beneficiaries)  or estate duty (which is paid by the deceased’s estate).   Many countries (for example the USA, UK France, Germany, Netherlands and Canada) have implemented either the inheritance tax or the estate duty. Malaysia too had the estate duty until it was repealed in 1991.

The proposed inheritance tax /estate duty should have a low starting threshold and a progressive structure. Such a tax will help the country move towards a just society.

b) Personal tax

The government should stop reducing the personal income tax rate for the higher income earners. It should instead increase the rates to collect more funds for income redistribution.

Perkhidmatan Bas-Shuttle untuk pergi balik daripada Hospital Temerloh

Saya cadangkan bahawa pihak Majlis Bandaran Temerloh harus menyediakan bas atau 'shuttle service' bermula daripada perhentian Bas Temerloh (di Lurah Semantan) melalui perhentian Bas (dekat Store) ke Hospital Pakar Temerloh bermula daripada jam 7.00 pagi sampai jam 9 malam, di mana tak perlu Bas Besar - bas kecil juga memadai...atau pun van.

Kawasan letak kereta yang besar perlu dibuat di kawasan berdekatan perhentian bas tersebut, di mana pengunjung hospital digalakkan letak kereta di situ dan ambil bas/shuttle pergi-balik daripada Hospital.

Harus diterima bahawa kawasan letak kereta di perkarangan hospital sudah tidak cukup lagi, dan perlu juga di adakan kawasan tempat  letak kereta baru berdekatan. Kedaan bertambah sesak pada masa melawat. Kawasan hadapan pintu masuk hospital masih lapang, dan boleh diperolehi dan dibina bangunan tempat letak kereta bertingkat....atau padang letak kereta biasa.

Perkhidmatan teksi juga boleh disediakan di kawasan hospital. 

Polis, Jangan tembak mati....tangkap dan bicarakan (3 lagi dibunuh polis)

Kenapa tidak ditangkap dan dibicarakan? Kenapa tidak ditembak kaki dan ditangkap? Kenapa semua 3 ditembak mati? Adakah niat polis mahu tembak mati sahaja - dan bukan mahu menangkap dan dihadapkan ke Mahkamah?

Bolehkah versi polis yang dilapurkan media boleh dipercayai? Harus diadakan siasatan umum (public inquiry) untuk memastikan tindakan polis adalah wajar dan sah? Ya...perlu.

Adakah menembak mati 3 orang yang tidak memiliki senjata api satu tindakan yang betul? Polis dalam proses menangkap orang dibenarkan menggunakan kekerasan munasabah.... tetapi...

3 TKI Ditembak Mati di Malaysia, Lagi...

  Wednesday, April 07, 2010

KUALALUMPUR - Polisi Malaysia kembali menembak mati tiga WNI/TKI di Temerloh, Kuantan, Senin dinihari, sekitar pukul 3:30 karena menyerang polisi setelah melakukan perampokan di sebuah rumah.

Kepala penyidik kriminal kepolisian Temerloh, Narenasegaran menjelaskan, tiga WNI itu merampok sebuah rumah yang dihuni seorang nenek, 85 tahun dan seorang pembantu di Bukit Keramat, Mentakab, Kuantan, demikian berita yang dilansir sejumlah media massa Malaysia, Selasa.

Setelah merampok barang-barang berharga, uang tunai dan handphone totalnya senilai 1.000 ringgit (Rp2,6 juta), ketiga perampok itu kabur menggunakan mobil sedan Proton Wira Kelabu.


Korban kemudian mengontak polisi, yang kemudian segera mendatangi rumah korban. Di perjalanan, polisi melihat mobil Proton Wira Kelabu yang dicurigai digunakan pelaku dan kemudian membuntutinya.

Merasa diikuti, menurut keterangan Narenasegaran, ketiga penumpang proton Wira itu melarikan mobilnya dengan kencang.

Polisi telah minta agar mobil tersebut berhenti tapi diabaikan. Akhirnya mobil itu terjerembab di jalan Taman Jelutung dan ketiga penumpang keluar dengan membawa parang hendak menyerang polisi.

Polisi mengeluarkan tembakan peringatan tapi diabaikan lalu menembak mati ketiga WNI/TKI sehingga mati ditempat, demi mempertahankan diri.

Setelah diperiksa, polisi menemukan empat parang panjang, satu alat pemotong besi dan alat yang namanya kuku kambing, kata Narenasegaran.

Polisi Malaysia mengaku juga menemukan empat cincin, sebuah HP, uang tunai 374 ringgit dan uang Rp130.000, kata kepala penyidik kepolisian Temerloh itu.

Sebelum ini, kepolisian Malaysia menembak mati tiga TKI asal Sampang, Madura di Kuala Selangor, pada Maret lalu, sektiar pukul 3:30 pagi juga.

Namun teman-teman korban mengatakan bahwa ketiga TKI itu telah diambil secara baik-baik oleh polisi, Senin malam. Tapi entah bagaimana, dua hari kemudian, media cetak Malaysia memberitakan ketiga warga Sampang itu mati ditembak polisi usai merampok dan kabur dengan mobil Proton.

Sayangnya, mobil mereka menabrak pohon setelah dikejar polisi. Mereka ditembak mati juga setelah berupaya menyerang polisi Malaysia.
Kontributor : ANTARA & yahoo.com

TEMERLOH, April 5 (Bernama) -- Three Indonesian burglars armed with machetes were shot dead after they broke into a house in Bukit Keramat, Mentakab near here early Monday.

The burglars aged between 20 and 30 died at the scene, said Pahang CID chief ACP T. Narenasagaran.

He said earlier, several policemen were dispatched to Bukit Keramat after the police received a report that a house there was broken into at 3.45am.

"The police spotted a grey Proton Wira in the area and tailed the car until Jalan Taman Jelutung before ordering it to stop.

"However, it sped off and skidded and landed at a hillside. Three men armed with machetes got off the car and tried to attack the policemen. The police fired at them in self-defence," Narenasagaran told reporters here Monday.

The police found four machetes, a necklace, four rings, RM374, Rupiah 130,000, a mobile phone, a metal cutter and knuckle duster.

Narenasagaran said no documents were found on the burglars while the car was reported stolen in Kajang last year.

The police believed the burglars were responsible for at least eight robberies and burglaries in Maran, Bera and Kuala Lipis. -- BERNAMA, 5/4/2010,Three Burglars Shot Dead

 

TEMERLOH: Police shot dead three robbery suspects who had broken into a house and tried to get away with some valuables at Bukit Keramat near Mentakab.

They were believed to be Indonesians and were in their 20s and 30s. State CID chief Asst Comm T. Narenasegaran said police received a call about a robbery in progress at about 3.45am.

“A patrol unit was despatched to the area. While on the way, they saw three men behaving suspiciously in a car.

“The unit tailed the car to Jalan Taman Jelutung but they sped away when the police ordered them to stop,” he said here, yesterday.

ACP Narenasegaran added that when the car skidded and stopped at a hillside, the three men got out and charged towards the police with their parangs.

“Police had to open fire in self-defence,” he said.

Police also discovered four parangs, a necklace, four rings, RM420, a handphone, a cutter and a padi planting tool (kuku kambing).

“The car that the men used was reported missing in Kajang last year. The group is believed to have been active in Temerloh, Maran, Bera and Kuala Lipis,” ACP Narenasegaran said. - Star, 5/4/2010, Police open fire when three suspects charge at them with parangs

Budak Temerloh terima Biasiswa Nasional

30 top SPM students get national scholarships

KUALA LUMPUR: Thirty outstanding 2009 Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) students who scored A+ in all subjects are recipients of the inaugural 2010 National Scholarship.

They will pursue studies in the disciplines of their choice at leading universities of the world recognised by the government, said a statement from the Prime Minister's Office.

The scholarship was announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak when he tabled the 2010 Budget in Parliament in October last year to reward students who excelled in their studies.

He said then that the national scholarship would be awarded to 30 creme de la creme students strictly based on merit to enable them further their education in world-renowned universities.

The statement said the students would attend preparatory courses at centres in the country designated by the government.

It said each of these students was required to attain a certain level of excellence at the preparatory course to qualify for studies abroad.

As of this year, the government had decided to sponsor most outstanding SPM students to pursue education for their first degree at leading universities in the country and abroad.

"This sponsorship programme is aimed at providing prestigious scholarships for outstanding SPM students in the effort to produce quality human capital to ensure the nation's continuity capabilities in the future," the statement said.

Gladys Tan, the best student of 2009 SPM, said soon after getting her results on March 11 that her ambition was to become a lecturer in biology or a related discipline. - Bernama.

Following is the list of the students:
1. Gladys Tan Yee Kim (SMK Green Road, Kuching)
2. Grace Kiew Sze-Ern (SMK Perempuan Sri Aman, Petaling Jaya, Selangor)
3. Khadijah Ahmad Jais (SM Agama Persekutuan, Labu, Negri Sembilan)
4. Akmal Hidayat Sabri (SMK Derma, Kangar)
5. Syamilah Mahali (Tunku Kurshiah College, Seremban)
6. Amelia Lee Wei Ling (SMK Taman Melawati, Gombak, Selangor)
7. Nur Syuhadah Muhamad (SM Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra, Kota Baru)
8. Lai Yin Kwin (SMK Tinggi Malacca)
9. Corinne Gunn Huey Min (SMK Taman Melawati, Gombak, Selangor)
10. Hu May Khei (SMK Convent, Taiping, Perak)
11. Muhammad Amal Aiman Mohd Yusof (Mara Junior Science College (MRSM) Kota Baru)
12. Kuah Jia Ying (SMK Bukit Jambul, Penang)
13. Chean Chung Shen (SMK Methodist (ACS) Sitiawan)
14. Ahmad Zhafir Zulkfli alias Zulkifli (Integrated Fully Residential School (SBPI) Temerloh)
15. Goh Diangde (SMK Derma, Kangar)
16. Ameenah Azman (Tunku Kurshiah College, Seremban)
17. Erin Chuah Wei Yen (SMK Seri Bintang Utara, Kuala Lumpur)
18. Mohamad Syukri Azmi (MRSM Kota Baru)
19. Muhammad Syafiq Kamarulzaman (SBPI Selandar)
20. Neelam Devi Nath (SMK Buloh Kasap, Segamat, Johor)
21. Ooi Hui Lynn (SMK Convent Green Lane, Penang)
22. Nurliyana Sanusi (MRSM Kota Baru)
23. Gan Li Fang (SMK Tun Mamat, Tangkak, Johor)
24. Muhammad Sallehuddin Mansor (SMK Matang, Perak)
25. Muhammad Izzat Solihuddin (MRSM Tun Ghafar Baba, Jasin, Malacca)
26. Nurizzati Zainal Nazeri (Saad Foundation College, Malacca)
27. Khairunnisa Che Bahrun (Maahad Ahmadi Arabic School, Tanah Merah, Kelantan)
28. Nurulaida Mohd Darus (SBPI Jempol, Negeri Sembilan)
29. Loh Sook Yin (SMK Tinggi St David, Melaka)
30. Malathy a/p Balakrishnan (SMK Ibrahim, Sungai Petani, Kedah) - Star, 31/3/2010, 30 top SPM students get national scholarships

Bantuan yang diberikan Wakil Rakyat datang dari Kerajaan - Wang Rakyat.

Ahli Parlimen ada menerima wang/peruntukkan untuk membantu orang ramai. Satu daripada ini dikenali sebagai Skim Bantuan Segera Persekutuan Bagi Kawasan Parlimen (BSKP).

Kadang-kadang ahli Parlimen berkelakuan seolah-olah wang bantuan tersebut datang daripada poket sendiri - tidak benar. Wang tersebut adalah wang rakyat yang telah disalurkan oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan kepada Ahli Parlimen. Berapa yang diberi? Ada yang mengatakan bahawa jumlah yang diberikan adalah RM1 juta setahun [Jika siapa-siapa tahu, dari mana sebenarnya wang ini datang dan apakah jumlah yang disalurkan kepada Ahli Parlimen setempat, sila berkongsi pengetahuan dengan menulis satu komen di bawah supaya semua boleh tahu.]

Ada yang menyatakan bahawa kini wang ini hanya disalurkan kepada Ahli Parlimen daripada Barisan Nasional (dan Ahli Parlimen Bebas yang sokong BN) - di mana ini adalah salah kerana nyata di semua tempat (termasuk laman Jabatan Kebajikkan sendiri) bahawa wang disalurkan kepada Ahli Parlimen - iaitu semua ahli Parlimen.

Tambahan, Perlembagaan Persekutuan Malaysia menjamin kesamaan, iaitu di Artikel 8, di mana diskriminasi berasaskan parti politik tidak diizinkan Perlembagaan Persekutuan. Maka, wang kerajaan yang merupakan wang rakyat, jika diberikan kepada (atau disalurkan melalui) Ahli Parlimen setempat - semua ahli Parlimen berhak menerimanya.

Jika Ahli Parlimen bukan Barisan Nasional tidak menerimanya, mereka boleh pergi ke Mahkamah menuntut hak mereka - hak untuk diberikan layanan sama, hak untuk tidak didiskriminasi, ... [Perhatian harus diberikan bahawa Perlembagaan kita sudah jelas bahawa Ahli Parlimen tidak dapat didiskriminasikan berasaskan Parti Politik, dan sebagainya - Hanya boleh, jika ini dibenarkan secara khusus dalam Perlembagaan Malaysia].

Maka, tunggu apa lagi - pergilah ke Mahkamah meminta hak kamu.... 

8.  Equality.

(1) All persons are equal before the law and entitled to the equal protection of the law.

(2) Except as expressly authorised by this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens on the ground only of religion, race, descent, place of birth or gender in any law or in the appointment to any office or employment under a public authority or in the administration of any law relating to the acquisition, holding or disposition of property or the establishing or carrying on of any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment....

Skim Bantuan Segera Persekutuan Bagi Kawasan Parlimen (BSKP) Nota: Skim ini disalurkan terus melalui Ahli Parlimen di kawasan berkenaan.

Kadar bantuan (maksimum): Mangsa bencana = RM200 Kematian = RM200 Terdampar = RM200 Pesakit Kronik = RM500 Membaiki rumah akibat bencana alam = RM500

Membantu golongan miskin yang memerlukan bantuan dengan segera.

Golongan yang berkeperluan dan tidak berkemampuan Pendapatan keluarga tidak melebihi RM1,000.00 sebulan