Sunday 19 May 2013

Hari Gawai Dayak Betong, Sarawak..


SELAMAT HARI GAWAI DAYAK
PENGERAMI GAWAI DAYAK PERINGKAT BETONG
DIRASMIKAN OLEH YB DATUK PATINGGI TAN SRI DR ALFRED JABU
DIHADIRI YB DATUK SERI DOUGLAS UGGAH EMBAS 
&
YB ROBERT LAWSON CHUAT



KETIBAAN YB TIMBALAN KETUA MENTERI DAN MENTERI PERLADANGAN KOMODITI MALAYSIA



KETIBAAN VIP


KEMESRAAN YB DATUK PATINGGI ALFRED JABU


BARISAN KEPIMPINAN BAHAGIAN BETONG



YB MENTERI DATUK SERI DOUGLAS MEMBERIKAN UCAPAN


PEMIMPIN BERJIWA RAKYAT


‘Noble reasons, objectives won the day for PRS’ Tan Sri Dr. James Jemut Masing


KUCHING: Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president Tan Sri Dr James Masing attributed the party’s victory in the May 5 general election to “noble reasons and sound political objectives”.
He opined that politics and political fights must be based on sound political ideologies and objectives, and PRS had adhered to this principle.

“The victors of electoral fights are normally those who fought for noble reasons and with sound political objectives, and we, in PRS, stuck to that principle which enabled our (party) to win,” he said at PRS 13th general election victory dinner at KTS Garden on Friday.

PRS won all six seats – Sri Aman, Lubok Antu, Kanowit, Julau, Selangau and Hulu Rajang – it contested in the polls.
Its victors Masir Kujat (Sri Aman), Willia Nyalau (Lubok Antu, Datuk Aaron Ago Dagang (Kanowit), Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum (Julau), Datuk Joseph Entulu (Selangau) and Wilson Ugak Kumbong (Hulu Rajang) were all present.
Taking a swipe at Sarawak Workers Party (SWP), Masing, who is also Land Development Minister, said PRS was neither fighting based on anger, personal vendettas nor revenge.

“We (PRS) fight because we have a good cause to fight … we want to contest because we have abilities to lead this nation to a better future, and that dream of a better future for this country must be above our personal interests.
“We should not contest just because we want to be ahli YB (elected representatives) or continue to contest simply because we still want to be in power.”

Masing remarked that the recently concluded election was one of the toughest elections he had ever experienced, and perhaps the hardest for PRS in its eight years of existence.He said the party was challenged by three opponents in Pakatan Rakyat, Independents and SWP.While Pakatan was a well organised political entity with very clear aims and objectives, Masing said the party also had to face an independent candidate who went around saying that he was not contesting against BN but only to fight against a BN candidate.

SWP’s objective, he added, was to annihilate PRS.Masing noted that the tussle with SWP caught the attention of the media and the people, and so-called political experts also jumped into the circus by erroneously predicting the demise of PRS in the hands of SWP.He stressed that the people should treasure the prevailing peace and harmony which had been designed by the nation’s forefathers through careful planning and through the rule of law.“Until and unless we learn to be grateful and respect the rule of law, we will not be respected by the very people we fight to rule and administer.”



Wednesday 24 April 2013

Bantuan Kecil Awal Persekolahan ringankan beban rakyat


Datuk Seri Douglas Uggah Embas, Calon BN Parlimen Betong

BETONG - Kerajaan telah membelanjakan sejumlah wang yang besar bagi meringankan beban rakyat khususnya golongan berpendapatan rendah apabila menghulurkan Bantuan Kecil Awal Persekolahan (BKAP).

Bagi pentadbiran pejabat Pelajaran Daerah Betong sahaja, yang merangkumi 47 buah sekolah Rendah, tujuh sekolah menengah, Kolej Vokasional dan Maktab Rendah Sains Mara(MRSM)Betong, bantuan berjumlah hampir RM1.4 juta telah diperuntukkan kepada pelajar disekolah-sekolah dalam kawasan tersebut pada tahun 2012.

Manakala pada tahun 2013 sejumlah RM1.5 juta turut disalurkan dalam meneruskan bantuan yang terbaik untuk pendidikan yang lebih cemerlang disamping menyenangkan ibu bapa pelajar dalam menguruskan perbelanjaan awal persekolahan anak-anak mereka.

Abang Nurjayadi Abang Kushairi, 34, berpendapat bahawa bantuan yang diberikan oleh kerajaan yang dipimpin oleh BN merupakan satu usaha untuk meringankan bebanan kepada ibubapa pelajar.

"Usaha kerajaan ini amat tepat dan memenuhi keperluan yang dituntut oleh ibubapa dalam meneruskan pendidikan untuk anak-anak masing-masing.


"Walaupun jumlahnya hanya RM100, memadai untuk memulakan pembelian buku-buku dan yuran pelbagai yang digunakan untuk pembelajaran anak-anak.


"Apapun terima kasih kepada kerajaan BN yang telah memulakan inisiatif untuk membantu rakyat dengan bantuan yang seharusnya demi pendidikan negara tanpa mengira jumlah pendapatan setiap keluarga yang menerima.


"Saya juga mengharapkan agar bantuan ini akan diteruskan pada tahun-tahun yang akan datang dan bertambah jumlahnya.


Seorang kakitangan disebuah premis kerajaan, Abang Sipudin Abang Zaini, 45, turut menerima baik bantuan yang disalurkan oleh kerajaan BN sejak dua tahun lalu.


"Kecemerlangan pentadbiran BN di bawah Datuk Sri Najib Tun Razak, telah membuktikan bahawa semua keperluan rakyat sentiasa dijaga dan setiap kekurangan sentiasa dikaji hingga ke peringkat akar umbi bagi melihat keperluan yang dimahukan oleh rakyat," katanya.


"Dengan bantuan pelbagai yang diberikan oleh kerajaan jelas memperlihatkan bahawa jumlah RM100 untuk setiap pelajar tidak membebankan tanggungan negara.


"Rakyat sendiri dapat menilai arah tuju pentadbiran negara yang jelas kita lihat sekarang pemimpin yang mendahulukan rakyat harus disokong dan dijunjung agar pembangunan berterusan yang dirangka akan terus dilaksanakan dengan jayanya.

"Berilah sokongan yang tidak berbelah bahagi kepada kerajaan BN yang telah memberikan kemajuan dan pembangunan untuk negara," ujarnya.

Wednesday 10 April 2013

Douglas Uggah: Penyakal ngulihka Penyinu ngena isu pengarap,tanah,bansa


KUCHING: Tiga pekara nyangka deka di bantaika penyakal maya kimpin ba Pengawa Bepilih Besai  ti Ke-13 (PRU13) seraya minta dikesinuka rayat, iya nya pekara jalai pengarap, bansa enggau tanah.Menteri Pengeraja Asal enggau Rampa Menua Dato Sri Douglas Uggah Embas madah ketetiga pekara nya ukai pekara ke baru dalam randau penyakal, ke sigi udah lama nyadi senyata sida.

“Nya ukai pekara baru ke deka dibantai penyakal, tambah mega penyakal enda ulih dikearapka,” ku iya.
Iya madah baka tu lebuh dikerandau  pemberita pengudah bejadika atur pengawa nyuaka chek RM400,000 ngagaiGerija Parish All Saints Tabuan Dayak ditu, en
sanus, ke bela digulu Sapit Menteri Kereja Raya Datuk Yong Khoon Seng ti mega penyandang sitak parlimen Stampin.Uggah ti mega penyandang sitak parlimen Betong madah, Perintah Barisan Nasional (BN) deka terus nerang ngagai rayat, ba semua pekara ke deka ditemu sida ari Perintah lalu ngaga mayuh agi program dikena mutarka isu baka tu, lalu tu mega nyengkaum nerang ngagai rayat bekaul enggau berita ke ditabur nengah ‘Radio Free Sarawak’.

“Perintah BN mega deka nyendiaka kaunter macham teknologi media enggau ‘online’ ke bejaika perintah BN.
“BN sedia betapi enggau ‘perang pengawa rama enggau siber’ enggau chara kami empu madah ngag


Jelaing For Saratok??


KUALA LUMPUR; Speculation runs high that the Barisan Nasional (BN) will unveil its candidates for the 13th general election tomorrow even as the Election Commission meets to decide the polling and nomination dates.Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who is BN chairman, will meet coalition representatives again at the Putra World Trade Centre in the morning to shore up the BN election machinery and has scheduled a press conference after that.Najib, who is spearheading the BN charge for the first time after taking over as prime minister four years ago, has indicated that he would name the candidates early and there would be surprises.

The much awaited announcement, if true, comes exactly a week after he dissolved the Dewan Rakyat and last Saturday, he launched BN’s manifesto, promising to continue his work of transforming the nation and the lives of all Malaysians.
He reiterated the message in Ipoh when he spent the day and had lunch with representatives of Perak non-governmental organisations at the Tow Boh Keong Temple hall after performing the ground-breaking ceremony for the RM400 million locomotive manufacturing plant belonging to China-based CSR Group. “The best is yet to come. We have delivered so much. With a strong mandate, we can even do better in the future. I promise you that,” he said at the luncheon.

“I have asked myself what else the Chinese want? They want security, they want harmony. What else do they want? They want a government that is fair and just.”Najib said all these would be fulfilled if BN was given a bigger mandate in the coming polls.International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said today that BN’s promise to bring in RM1.3 trillion in investments over the next five years, as envisaged in its manifesto, was realistic.Umno Wanita head and former federal minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said she would not be running while Cabinet member, Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui, who is Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) president, confirmed he would give way to a new face after serving the Miri parliamentary constituency for six terms.

Meanwhile, tension has spilled in Johor between opposition partners, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and DAP, over the Johor Jaya Chinese-majority state seat.PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced in Tangkak last night that state party chief Datuk Chua Jui Meng, denied of his ambition to contest the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat, would instead be fielded in Segamat which was contested by the DAP and lost in the 2008 general election.
DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang, who is standing in Gelang Patah, however, today said his bid in Gelang Patah was a stand-alone decision and not in exchange of any parliamentary seat between the two parties, and letting PKR contest in Segamat came with strings attached.

DAP’s agreement to relinquish Segamat was contingent on the settlement of “all DAP-PKR disputes on all seat allocations in Johor” with DAP contesting seven parliamentary seats and 15 state seats including Johor Jaya, said Lim.
“With Anwar’s announcement, it can be taken that the contingent conditions for the DAP’s agreement to let PKR contest in the Segamat parliamentary seat has been agreed upon by the PKR leadership,” he said on his blog.Lim has already named Dapsy assistant publicity secretary Liow Cai Tun for Johor Jaya while Johor PKR had announced its legal bureau chief Jimmy Puah for the state seat which was contested in 2008 by Parti Rakyat Malaysia.

DAP and PKR are also at loggerheads over another state seat in Johor, Pengkalan Rinting.Like DAP and PKR, PAS also continued to release the names of its candidates in spurts, naming eight parliamentary candidates today including three expected new faces.They are former federal CID chief Datuk Fauzi Shaari for Larut in Perak, architect Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah Raja Ahmad for Kuala Terengganu and songstress Wan Aishah Wan Ariffin for Jempol in Negeri Sembilan.

Deputy president Mohamed Sabu who was beaten in Kuala Terengganu in 2008 will now contest in Pendang, Kedah, while vice-president Datuk Husam Musa and Youth chief Salahuddin Ayub will move out of Kelantan to Putrajaya and Pulai in Johor respectively.PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang will defend his Marang seat in Terengganu while 82-year-old Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, the party’s spiritual leader, will stand for a fifth term in Cempaka, Kelantan.

In Kedah, disgruntled members of opposition parties who were not picked as candidates declared they would contest as independents.Former state PKR Youth chief Zamil Ibrahim said he had collected 10 nomination forms and the group comprising individuals from PKR, PAS and DAP would form a pact soon and contest under one logo.


Monday 8 April 2013

Hangat Saratok Today VS Saratok Update


Saratok- Pilihanraya semakin sampai kemuncak selepas pengumuman pembubaran parlimen oleh Perdana Menteri. Di Saratok, bahang perang alam maya semakin panas dengan kewujudan laman sosial. Krew Saratokkini turut merasai bahang kempen semakin hampir. Terdapat tiga laman sosial yang menjadi tumpuan penyokong dan cybertropper parti untuk mempertahankan hujah-hujah serta dasar parti yang disokong. Tiga laman sosial tersebut terdiri daripada Saratok Today, Saratok Update dan Gabungan Pemuda Saratok. Daripada tiga laman sosial tersebut ternyata rating Saratok Today lebih kehadapan dan disenangi.

Saratok Today dianggap lebih "cool" dan "relax" berbanding Saratok Update yang lebih kepada serangan peribadi. Walaupun begitu menurut seorang facebooker terkenal di kedua-dua laman sosial ini yang hanya ingin dikenali sebagai Aya J menyatakan perbahasan di Saratok Today lebih matang dan tidak emosional berbanding di Saratok Update lebih kepada emosional sehingga sanggup memburukan pihak lawan. Beliau mengesa supaya semua cybertropper dan facebooker supaya tidak terlalu fanatik dan jangan memainkan sentimen serangan pribadi.

Untuk rekod Saratok diketuai Encik Alexander Sela sebagai Tuai Rumah dan dibantu oleh Samuel Sila Mathew Unjah dan Michael Jelayan sebagai admin manakala Saratok Update diasaskan oleh Ex-Tr Sila Datu dan sehingga kini terdapat beberapa admin seperti Ensing Jara, Andrew Paul, Novert Sullang, Basil Thomas. Saratok Today dilihat berperanan lebih mesra BN oleh sesetengah pihak manakala Saratok Update dilihat lebih mesra PKR. Walaubagaimanapun krew Saratokkini akan cuba mendapatkan reaksi dan pandangan daripada admin Saratok today dan Saratok Update berhubung dengan suasana semasa dan presepsi masyarakat.


SARATOK TODAY
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SARATOK UPDATE
http://www.facebook.com/groups/saratok.update/?fref=ts

Religious issues cut no ice in the state


KUCHING: Exploitation of religious issues will not make any headway in the state during the general election because its multi-racial community has always lived in religious harmony, said Natural Resources and Environment Minister Dato Sri Douglas Uggah Embas.

“The opposition tried to exploit religious issues in the 2011 state election. As you can see, the impact on the rural population was minimal for the obvious reasons that the people in rural Sarawak feel that they are living in religious harmony.“We accept that there are problems but we adopt a policy of discussion. With that type of discussions, religious issues will not jeopardise the unity of this country,” he told reporters after presenting a RM400,000 mock-cheque to All Saints’ Church (ASC) at Tabuan here yesterday.

Also present were Deputy Works Minister Datuk Yong Khoon Seng, Reverend Nelson Sinken – the priest in charge of ASC, venerable canon Reverend Nelson Ugas and SUPP Batu Lintang chairman Sih Hua Tong.
Uggah, who is also a member of the special Cabinet Committee on Sabah-Sarawak, pointed out that the federal aid was approved about a month before the dissolution of the Parliament on April 4.He said in the past three years, about RM5 million in aid had been approved by the government for 12 churches throughout the state including St Thomas Cathedral which received RM2 million.

ASC is expanding its main congregation hall and other facilities and the project, estimated at RM300,000, is scheduled to be completed by Christmas this year.The RM300,000 does not include budget for a car park and other surrounding amenities. Upon completion, the church will increase its capacity to about 1,000 from its current capacity of 200.
ASC serves the people of Tabuan Dayak, Tabuan, Jalan Song and Stutong.

http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/04/09/religious-issues-cut-no-ice-in-the-state/