Sarawak’s old ‘warriors’ worth only RM100

Some 186 aging Sarawak Rangers and Iban Trackers, who sacrificed their lives
defending the nation and whom the government has apparently forgotten are
desperately needing assistance.

KUCHING: In an age when even a school-going child’s pocket money is no less than RM1 a day, Sarawak’s veterans who defended the country against communists and terrorists are only worth RM100 a month.

That is the appalling situation facing several aging former Sarawak Rangers and Iban Trackers.

These men spent most of their entire life away from family and friends defending the country.

Briefly the Sarawak rangers were a para-military force founded in 1892.

Serbuan Jais: Kenyataan penuh Datuk Dr Hassan Ali

KENYATAAN AKHBAR DATO’ DR HASAN BIN MOHAMED ALI EXCO HAL EHWAL ISLAM, ADAT-ADAT MELAYU, INFRASTRUKTUR DAN KEMUDAHAN AWAM
Bahagian Penguatkuasaan Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS) dan sepasukan anggota Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) telah membuat pemeriksaan ke atas sebuah gereja di Damansara Utama berdasarkan hasil maklumat yang diterima. Maklumat tersebut menyatakan terdapatnya kehadiran orang Islam di dalam majlis berbuka puasa yang diadakan di gereja tersebut.

Hasan Ali backs Jais raid, says ‘Quran’ and ‘Pray’ used in front of Muslims

(The Malaysian Insider) - Selangor executive councillor Datuk Hasan Ali defended today a late-night state Islamic enforcement raid on a church in Petaling Jaya yesterday, saying the words “Quran” and “pray” were used in the presence of Muslims at the dinner function.

He claimed this was part of the authorities’ evidence that Christians were proselytising to Muslims.

Widely seen as a religious conservative, Hasan has been at odds with the ruling Pakatan Rakyat (PR) state government’s seemingly liberal policies on several occasions, most notably his push for a beer sale ban in the country’s most developed state earlier this year.

Greedy Sabah officers eyeing welfare aid

By Luke Rintod of FMT

The Sabah Welfare Department has struck off a 70-year-old from their
aid list because they consider him to be 'healthy and capable of working.'

PENAMPANG: Greed has no end in Sabah where the poor, aged and disabled now face corrupt officers who want a share of their meagre RM150 or RM300 government welfare subsistence.

These groups now live in uncertainty fearful of whether their next month’s aid will be heldback because these Welfare Department officers also decide whether they are ‘fit’ or ‘unfit’ for support.

Sadly in Sabah, these groups are being held for ransom by the Sabah Welfare Department.

Already the department has come under fire for irregularities in the distribution of monthly welfare aid to the needy in various districts.

Tombonuo association praises on Rahim Bakri’s leadership

By Raymond Tombung

 

Datuk Rahim Bakri together with Akians and other PBTPS leaders
delivering rice to the villagers of Kg. Tombonuo

PITAS: The president of the Sabah Pitas Tombonuo People’s Association (PBTPS), En. Akian Ahkiew expressed his association’s appreciation and gratitude for the dynamic leadership of Kudat’s Member of Parliament, Datuk Rahim Bakri.