Penduduk Pusa Resah Tiada Air

Oleh Hazemi Hj Entek
Penduduk di Kampung Seberang Pusa, berasa resah kerana bekalan air paip tiada. Ketiadaan bekalan tersebut telah berlaku sejak sebulan yang lalu. Malah kegelisahan penduduk semakin terasa bila air yang diharap sebagai sumber utama berlarutan sehingga ke hari ini.
Tinjauan koresponden Sarawak Update awal pagi hari ini (Ahad), mendapati bekalan tersebut memang tiada setitik pun air keluar dari sebatang paip salah seorang penduduk.
Masalah bekalan air paip di Kampung Pusa, bukan suatu perkara baru malah kerap kali berlaku sekian lamanya.

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Masing Finally Broke His Silence After Koyok In Pelagus

 by Abdul Hakim Bujang

Whenever he opened his mouth to comment, whatever comes out will be very irritating. The woman sitting next to me was pointing to James Masing photograph in The Borneo Post. I don’t know her. Honestly.

She said Masing sister was her friend, and all the following remarks said about the Minister is not fit for publication. If am writing it, the poor woman identity would be exposed.

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SMC Did Not Discuss Rakyat Problem, Alleged ADUN Dudong

 SIBU – A DAP representative from Dudong constituency, Yap Hoi Leong sat through the Sibu Municipal council (SMC) monthly meeting this morning from 10 am to 11 am as part of his duty to let the people know what the council is doing.

Talking to Sarawak Update after the meeting, Yap said he is disappointed that what he has brought up recently to the council was not even discussed in their meeting.

Yap had on Wednesday wrote a letter to both the SMC and Sibu Rural District council (SRDC) informing them that he would sit in their monthly meeting to supervise their work.
He said he wanted to be the eye and ears of the public and to see transparency at work.

When he arrived this morning at the council, he was given a chair behind the Councillors. As he was not invited to speak, Yap observed the meeting and took notes. Although most of the council staff ignored him, Yap said he was there to help facilitate and initiate change for the people.

He told Sarawak Update that he had asked the council to look into two issues, woes of the people which affected their daily lives. One, he said was on infrastructure and another on a feed mill which had been giving the residents there nightmares for the past 20 years.

A feed mill at Upper Lanang Road was there for the past 20 years and despite hundreds of complaints from residential housing at Lada, Grand Heights and Sukun estates, the authorities appeared to take a mute stand on the matter.

Yap said he had written a letter to SMC, Natural Resources and Environmental Board, Sibu and Minister of Industrial development Sarawak.

“The SMC never even discuss the problem faced by the people,” he said. Yap wondered why no action was taken against the feed mill as it concerned the health, environment of the thousands of residents staying there.

He said the people should be told what emission come from the pungent smell they breath in daily or whether there is any breech of law or by law that the authority can take against the feed mill.

Yap said there should be a solution from the authority and a deadline to implement it. He added that he would continue to pursue the matter.

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Kampung Benawa Sudah Wujud 80 Tahun, Namun Tiada Kemudahan

Oleh Hazel Lee

MARUDI – Penduduk Kampung Benawa di Marudi, yang merupakan penempatan Muslim yang paling terpencil di kawasan Miri mahu agar lebih banyak projek pembangunan dilaksanakan di tempat mereka.

Kampung itu yang didiami oleh kira-kira 30 keluarga etnik Kiput beragama Islam itu amat mendambakan pembangunan dan kemudahan asas seperti bekalan

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DAP halau penjaja dari Tamu Senadin

Oleh Hazel Lee

MIRI – Baru beberapa bulan berniaga di lokasi baharu, lebih 60 penjaja berhampiran pasar raya DPS, Senadin mungkin terpaksa berpindah semula, berikutan aduan Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP) yang mengatakan lokasi itu tidak selamat dan kotor.

Sebelum ini, penjaja yang kebanyakan kaum Dayak berniaga di kaki-kaki lima pasar raya yang sama, namun dipindahkan
oleh Majlis Bandaraya Miri (MBM) ke lokasi sekarang yang lebih selesa.

Tinjauan mendapati, lokasi yang ada sekarang jauh lebih selesa berbanding lokasi lama yang terdedah dengan matahari dan angin ribut.

Seorang penjaja yang hanya dikenali sebagai Siah berkata, mereka belum mengetahui cadangan perpindahan itu, namun menganggap ia suatu yang membebankan.

“Dulu kami berniaga di depan DPS, kemudian disuruh berpindah ke tepi DPS pula. Sekarang disuruh berpindah pula, nampaknya kami macam bola,” katanya ketika ditemui di tamu berhampiran DPS petang tadi.

Sementara itu, cadangan untuk memberhentikan perniagaan di kawasan berkenaan telah dikemukakan kepada Datuk Bandaraya Miri, Lawrence Lai dalam Mesyuarat Penuh MBM hari ini.

“MBM banyak menerima aduan daripada pihak pembangkang DAP yang menyifatkan kawasan perniagaan di situ kotor dan tidak selamat. Komen pihak DAP telah disuarakan di akhbar tempatan tetapi MBM belum menerima aduan dari peniaga-peniaga di kawasan berkenaan,” katanya hari ini.

Lawrence menambah, DAP turut mendesak MBM agar memindahkan penjaja disitu kerana kegagalan menyediakan bekalan air dan elektrik untuk kegunaan mereka.

“Sebagai kawasan perniagaan sementara, MBM tidak dapat menyediakan kemudahan-kemudahan asas seperti yang dinikmati kawasan perniagaan kekal seperti tandas, bekalan air dan elektrik. Kita letakkan mereka di situ kerana memberi peluang kepada penjaja berjual sementara menunggu tapak tetap, bukannya tidak prihatin.”

“Setakat ini kita sudah mengenalpasti kawaan tamu tetap di Senadin, namun MBM masih menunggu peruntukan dari Kementerian Alam Sekitar dan Kemudahan Awam (KASKA) untuk melaksanakan projek berkenaan,” katanya sambil menambah aduan berkenaan akan dirujuk kepada Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Senadin Datuk Lee Kim Shin.

Pembukaan tamu sementara di Senadin bertujuan untuk memberi peluang dan membantu peniaga yang belum mempunyai lesen berniaga dengan sah.

Sehingga kini seramai 60 peniaga yang menjual buah-buahan, sayuran dan makanan mencari rezeki di tamu tersebut. Sebanyak 38 peniaga ditempatkan di kawasan hadapan pasaraya sementara yang lain ditempatkan di bahagian tepi.

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SMC Increase Assessment By 2%

SIBU – The Assessment rate for Sibu would be increased by 2% next year for the compulsory desludging of the sewerage system and service ordinance 2005 and the Local Authority by-law 2002.

This was announced during the Sibu Municipal council meeting today that unlike in the past desludging was only done when the septic tanks were full, said Chairman of SMC, Datuk Tiong Thai King.

Tiong said the increase of the assessment rate was to meet the requirement of frequent desludging and sludge would be properly treated in the Kemuyang Sludge Treatment Plant.

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SK St Patrick To Be Demolished

MUKAH – Mukah oldest primary school, SK St Patrick, will be demolished to pave way for the construction of a road.

And following to that move the school will be temporarily station at the existing Dalat/Mukah District Council (MDDM) headquarters from next year onward.

This was disclosed by the school Parent-Teacher Association Chairperson, Nolin Gendang in his speech at a Farewell Gathering for the school Headmaster, Dominic Aseng, held at Dewan Suarah Mesra, here, on Wednesday.

“I wished to take this opportunity to inform the parent that our school will be moving in the year 2012. I hope will all will patient and prepared for it. It is so because our existing school will be demolish for the construction of a through road,” she said.

She pointed out that the said road is a through road to the famous annual Kaul festival site, Taman Kala Dana.

Hence, Nolin, said, they had applied for the usage of MDDM headquarters building for temporary school which was duly approved.

“Thanks God, the councilors unanimously accepted our application because MDDM will be moving to the newly completed RECORDA building,” she disclosed.

Nolin added that MDDM will be moving to that RECORDA building or officially known as the New Administrative Center before the end of this year.

Meanwhile the out-going headmaster, Dominic Aseng, who also spoke at the event called upon the teachers and non-teaching staff of the school to start to prepare themselves for that inevitable move.

And he hoped that would be event(moving) would not affect the teaching and the learning process of the school.

They would move to the permanent building once the construction of the proposed new school building at a site near the existing St. Paul and Peter Church is completed in future.

The school which was established in 1905 was the only missionary primary school in Mukah, and celebrated the Centenary Celebration in 2005, together with SMK St Patrick and The Roman Catholic Church, St. Peter & Paul.

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Chin tidak pasti sama ada akan bertanding

Oleh Hazel Lee

MIRI – Setiausaha Penganjur Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sarawak (SUPP), Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui masih mempertimbangkan keputusan sama ada bertanding atau sebaliknya dalam Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13 (PRU 13) akan datang.

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Why Do Rakyat Seeks Opposition Help?

A few days prior to the nomination day of Sarawak State Election, I was told an Assistant Minister at Chief Minister Office will be visiting my residential area. He is the incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN) ADUN.

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Why Do Rakyat Seeks Opposition Help?

A few days prior to the nomination day of Sarawak State Election, I was told an Assistant Minister at Chief Minister Office will be visiting my residential area. He is the incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN) ADUN.

I was told by a Rela officer, who happened to be a close associate of Deputy Minister of Works to wait for the YB and told him our predicament personally.

Having write very nasty commentary on the Assistant Minister, I don't expect him to be nice to me.


So I tell him about the huge hole near my housing main road, drainage problem and try to strike a friendly conversation.

He was clearly annoyed upon seeing me and take note of all my complaint.

"I will inform the Padawan Municipal Council, (PMC)" he told me.

Fast forward, one month after the election the hole grew bigger and PMC never show up.

I send sms to a Chinese reporter friend seeking his help to highlight the problem via Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) newly elected representative.

The PKR guy is not the ADUN of Batu Kawah but he took the trouble attending to my complaint on a public holiday.

He promised to write to PMC and highlight our predicament as requested.

I could not understand how our BN YB's work.

Some are good, some are very good, some are extremely good but many are obviously plain winnable candidates that can deliver the much needed seats to form the government. Politic.

Political landscape is steadily changing. BN no longer facing useless, annoying, irritating or good for nothing opposers.

If the BN YB's continue to behave like the chosen one, they will end up being voted out. This is not a warning. It had happened and will repeat.

Some BN ADUN or MP never have service centre. Some have service centre but erected in Kuching city when their Kawasan is somewhere else. Why not open up service centre in Uganda?

Sometime I feel like throwing up receiving too many bad news, complaint and issues brought up via the opposition YBs.

I rarely saw or write news about Rakyat bringing their grouses to the BN guys.

More interestingly majority of the genuine complaint brought to the opposition leader would be solved.

Why can't the BN leaders attend to these problems? Are they themselves part of the problems? Are they afraid?

I could not figure it out. May be am not entitled me to an accepted opinion. Why do Rakyat Seeks Opposition Help?

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Wanted By The Police

KUCHING – Police is asking for help to contact these two persons, Jee Chee Fah (Ah Min), 621003-13-5923 from Lundu and Fletcher Eddie anak Empan, 810901-13-5397 from Bau.
Anyone who has seen or has information on the whereabouts of the duo are to contact Investigation officer, ASP Shuib Abdul Samat at 012-8480011, IPD Kuching at 082-241133 or the nearest police station.
The two were believed to have information on the murder case of Emi Mahmud whose charred remains were found in an empty lot in Batu Kawa mid of last month.

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