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- Is Najib’s going green just lip service?
- Najib ‘misguided’ on Sabah’s needs
- KEADILAN Sabah tekad bongkar lebih banyak rasuah Umno
- BN Sabah digesa henti penjualan pulau serta-merta
- PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE : POTENTIAL DENGUE OUTBREAK IN SABAH
| Is Najib’s going green just lip service? Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:07 AM PDT Najib's budget has no meaningful incentives to promote and develop green technology in Malaysia, says a green advocate.
KOTA KINABALU: A disappointing Budget 2012 has left green technology enthusiasts in Sabah wondering if Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is truly interested in promoting and developing green technology. Najib's decision earlier this year to call off the construction of a proposed coal-fired power plant in Sabah following a widespread public outcry over its effects had given hope that his administration would be more receptive to green technology. But last Friday's Budget 2012 announcement has now left them casting doubts on his commitment. According to Sabah PKR secretary Dr Roland Chia, who is also a greenie, the federal government has failed to take a pragmatic approach to developing the potential of green technology. He said there has been little development in this area since Najib declared his vision of turning Putrajaya and Cyberjaya into green technology centres. "All we have is the offer of RM1.5 billion in soft loans for green technology companies and a pledge to reduce Malaysia's carbon footprint by 40 percent by 2025. "But since then, there has been no further development in this area. "What we had was the recently organised massive Green Technology exhibition in September called IGEM hosted by the Energy, Green Technology and Water Ministry," he said. Chia said it was crucial that the country took a pro-active stand in championing the development of green technology and wooing investors to the industry. "It is crucial that we develop green technology so that the country will have options once fossil fuel gets depleted. "I just hope that all this talk about green technology is not just mere lip service to the environment," Chia added. No incentives Najib, when attending the 2009 Copenhagen climate change summit, had boldly declared that "Malaysia is adopting an indicator of a voluntary reduction of up to 40 percent in terms of emissions intensity of GDP (gross domestic product) by the year 2020 compared to 2005 levels". At the time, he said the National Green Technology Centre had been tasked with formulating a green technology development action plan which would "set standards and promote green technology".
But in an immediate reaction to Najib's 2009 declaration, the Centre for Environment, Technology and Development Malaysia (Cetdem) director Gurmit Singh had reportedly said that there was "no way" this was achievable. "No way can we attain this level of reduction by 2020 and Malaysia definitely cannot commit itself to such a claim," he had said. Yesterday, Chia in a statement said the Budget 2012 offered no real incentives to encourage householders or small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to go green. "The budget does not offer incentives to households and SMEs to install solar panels to harness energy for their daily consumption. "This will help the country's bid to reduce carbon footprint by 40 percent by 2025 against the backdrop of increasing electricity tariffs. "How can the prime minister hope to achieve reduction of carbon footprint without the support of householders and SMEs?" he asked.  |
| Najib ‘misguided’ on Sabah’s needs Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:05 AM PDT
KOTA KINABALU: Accessibility to a decent secondary education is still a perennial problem in Sabah and the Budget 2012 has given little consideration to this fact, according to Sabah opposition PKR. Lamenting over Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's 'misguided and wasterful' 2012 budget, Sabah PKR secretary Dr Roland Chia said the whole budget had not taken into consideration the real needs of Sabah. "Of what use is waiving school fees and handing out book vouchers for rural students in Sabah if students in the rural poor have to travel or walk 20-30 kilometers just to get to the nearest school. "The government should provide community buses to solve these problems instead. Transportation is a huge cost in Sabah. It is a problem even in urban areas where taxi fares remained as one of the highest in the country. "Both taxi drivers and car owners complain of unavailability of NGV (liquid petroleum) facilities for both taxis and private vehicles users," Chia said. He is also lambasted the plan for more mega development projects in already 'heavily' developed Peninsular Malaysia. "What was extremely disappointing is the announcement of more mega projects such as the Coastal Highway JB-Nusa and the Taiping Heritage Tourism Project at a cost of RM978 million. "What is the need for such projects which would certainly go into cost over-runs when Sabah is in dire need of basic infrastructure. "There is still a big vacuum in the basic infrastructure facilities in Sabah…we don't even have proper roads and utilities. "There is also a big economic gap between the urban middle class and the rural poor in Sabah. There are not enough planned measures in terms of poverty eradication and closing the gap between the rural and urban population. "The government needs to spell out how is the RM5 billion going to address the perennial poverty in Sabah," he said alluding to the fact that Sabah is the second poorest state in Malaysia despite it being the fourth largest producer of oil and gas in the country. On the road to bankruptcy
Chia was commenting on Najib's, who is also finance minister, announcement of an unprecedented RM232.8 billion national budget for 2012 last Friday. The 'feel good' budget however is worrying Chia. "RM232 billion is a lot of money, especially when we are looking at a 9.4% rise in expenditure and this contradicts the statement that the rise of expenditure will reduce the country's deficit of 4.7% from 5.4% of GDP. "How this is going to be achieved is yet to be seen," Chia said. Meanwhile the sheer size of the budget has also drawn flak from other opposition groups, with Sarawak DAP declaring that the ruling Barisan Nasional government had ignored the state despite its rural areas being touted as the coalition's 'fixed deposit'. Said Sarawak DAP secretary Chong Chieng Jen: "For the past 14 years, the nation has (accumulated) a total deficit amounting to more than RM436 billion. "The next year's budget has lot of goodies. We expect to incur RM45 billion deficit, and if you add this, our deficit will easily come to RM500 billion. "This will be more than 50% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product). We are heading towards the same direction as Greece. "Greece went bankrupt when its deficits reached 67% of its GDP."  |
| KEADILAN Sabah tekad bongkar lebih banyak rasuah Umno Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:03 AM PDT (Oleh: Masdar Wahid)
Roland mengulas gesaan Presiden KEADILAN, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Penasihat DAP, Lim Kit Siang dan Timbalan Presiden PAS, Mohd Sabu supaya Pakatan bekerja lebih keras untuk memastikan pentadbiran di Putrajaya. "KEADILAN negeri menyambut baik setiap cabaran itu dan kita akan memastikan setiap jentera ketiga-tiga komponen parti akan lebih bekerja keras selepas ini. "Kita juga memastikan setiap program diperingkat Cabang dan ranting mesti dihadiri setiap komponen Pakatan dari ketiga-tiga parti selain memastikan keputusan penting Pakatan tidak didedah kepada media yang mengundang manipulasi dari pihak lawan," katanya dihubungi Keadilandaily.com hari ini. Wan Azizah pada ucapannya di konvensyen itu, Jumaat lalu menggesa anggota dan pimpinan Pakatan Sabah mendedahkan lebih banyak lagi penyelewengan pentadbiran Umno BN Negeri. Ini kerana kata Azizah, isu rakyat terlalu banyak di Sabah, namun kurang didedah Pakatan di media dan dalam ceramah bersama rakyat. Manakala Mohd Sabu menggesa jentera Pakatan negeri menggiatkan penerangannya mengenai rasuah di kawasan pedalaman di negeri itu. Bagi Mohd Sabu, isu rasuah lebih banyak buruknya terhadap luar bandar yang majoritinya masih miskin, berbanding pengundi bandar yang lebih celik maklumat mengenainya. Sementara Kit Siang mahu rakyat Sabah memastikan setiap undi mereka samada diperingkat Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) dan Parlimen hanya untuk calon Pakatan Rakyat. Kit Siang menegaskan, walaupun rakyat Sabah pernah menukar kerajaan sebanyak empat kali, namun kehidupan rakyat masih sama kerana kebanyakan keputusan melibatkan rakyat berada di bawah bidang kuasa kerajaan persekutuan. Konvensyen Pakatan Sabah pertama kali diadakan pada hari itu berjaya menarik kehadiran kira-kira 2,000 rakyat pelbagai kaum di negeri itu. Turut hadir, golongan profesional, Pertubuhan Bukan Kerajaan (NGO), pimpinan, pendokong, pengikut, penyokong dan anggota Pakatan Rakyat Sabah dari KEADILAN, PAS dan DAP dari seluruh daerah di negeri itu.  |
| BN Sabah digesa henti penjualan pulau serta-merta Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT (Oleh: Masdar Wahid) SABAH: KEADILAN mendesak kerajaan Barisan Nasional di Sabah menghentikan penjualan pulau-pulaunya serta-merta, kata Ahli Majlis Pimpinan Pusat (MPP), parti itu, Dr Roland Chia Ming Shen. Beliau yang juga Setiausaha Majlis Pimpinan Negeri (MPN) menegaskan, penjualan itu mengundang ancaman keselamatan di negara ini. "Kita mendesak kerajaan Sabah umumkan siapa pemilik pulau-pulau itu dan mungkinkah ia diberi kepada kroni," "Kedua, kita juga menuntut kerajaan negeri dedahkan sejak bila pemilik tanah memiliki geran dan atas tujuan apa penjualan pulau itu dibuat," katanya dihubungi Keadilandaily.com hari ini. Roland bimbang jika penjualan itu tidak dihentikan, ia bakal mengundang ancaman pengganas. "Dalam keadaan pulau tidak dijual pun, rakyat kita diculik seperti yang kerap berlaku di Semporna, inikan pula jika pulau-pulau kita dijual," tegas beliau. Beliau mengulas kemarahan rakyat Sabah berhubung penjualan pulau Mengalum, Pandanan dan Montukod yang dijual menerusi pusat pasaran talian terus berpangkalan di Toronto, Kanada. Pulau Mengalum terletak di luar pantai Kota Kinabalu seluas 101 hektar, dijual kepada umum pada harga AS$18 juta. Pulau Pandanan berdekatan Semporna (empat hektar) pula dilapor dijual pada harga AS$2 juta dan Pulau Montukod, kira-kira satu kilometer di luar Kinarut (kira-kira tujuh hektar) dijual dengan harga AS$11.266 juta. Kelmarin, Pengarah Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur negeri, Datuk Osman Jamal memberitahu, penjualan pulau itu boleh dilakukan kreana ia 'milik persendirian'. Sementara itu Datuk Seri Musa Aman selaku Ketua Menteri kekal membisu walaupun penjualan tiga pulau Sabah itu sudah lama diperkatakan di internet. Sebelum ini, Pensyarah Undang-Undang Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Marja Azlima Omar menasihatkan kerajaan Sabah segera menamakan 250 pulau di negeri itu. Ini kerana Marja bimbang pulau-pulau itu berdepan tuntutan negara jiran seperti berlaku dalam kes pulau Batu Putih. Lebih 500 pulau wujud di Sabah dengan separuh daripadanya tidak mempunyai nama termasuk 55 di Tawau, daerah yang bersempadan dengan Indonesia.  |
| PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE : POTENTIAL DENGUE OUTBREAK IN SABAH Posted: 11 Oct 2011 07:56 AM PDT
PKR Supreme Council Member cum PKR Sabah Secretary – Dr Roland Chia urged the relevant authorities concerned not to be complacent in eradicating the dengue fever especially closer collaboration needed between the local councils and the public health department. He was commenting this matter when received alarming calls from angry residents of Taman Delima & Kg Nosoob , Kapayan , Penampang over the clogged drains and stagnation of pooled water along all the drains in the areas. These clogged areas are haven for the aedes mosquito to breed lavishly. The sites were very disgusting and unhygienic according to the angry residents. Dr Roland Chia urged for vigilant supervision to be conducted statewide – or else there will be a potential dengue outbreak in Sabah and not only in Penampang. Despite the assurance of the recent report by the Director-General of Health Datuk Dr. Hasan Abdul Rahman with regards to the number of dengue cases and related deaths between January and Aug 13 saw a drastic drop compared to the corresponding period last year is most welcoming, ie 12,735 cases were reported this year, down by 58 per cent from the 30,455 last year. 21 deaths were also reported this year, 78 per cent lower than the 95 recorded last year BUT the fact 10 out of the 14 states recorded a rise in the number of cases, with 12 in Selangor, 10 in Kedah, eight in Terengganu, two each in Melaka and Perak and one each in Perlis, Sabah, Pahang, Penang and the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. Sabah is not spared either to see an increase of death. Dengue is transmitted by several species of mosquito within the genus Aedes, principally A. aegypti.  |
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