Comments on: Main Penang NGOs express alarm over PGCC

By: t

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:02:50 +0000

and from what we have learn in recent times, even the PM may not know the complete truth about anything, what more government officers.

mr. govt officer, take everything with a pinch of salt. nothing is ever exactly as it seems.

By: anilnetto

anilnetto — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:59:51 +0000

No worries, you are entitled to your own perspective, just as I am to mine. Thanks for dropping by.

By: mind ur language

mind ur language — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:53:47 +0000

hi anil..
did i upset u, i didn’t mean that..
i was not really talking about this PGCC project, but i was referring to the other issues which u have been writing all this while..
i’m actually a government officer and i know for a fact that some of the points u have been highlighting in some of ur stories especially involving the government are way off the real truth.
it seemd that ur source of info are coming from mere hearsay..
i don’t mean to undermine u or anything..
just passing a thought, as u should know..
hope to see more credible stories from u in the future..

cheers..

By: KCC

KCC — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:23:33 +0000

Anil, informative writings, and please keep this up.

I grew up in Penang, lives in KL, but still has strong ties to Penang. Hence this topic is of grave interest to me.

The NGO’s have started the ball rolling. We need more people to exert pressure if we have any chance of changing this plan. Perhaps an economics and market view may provide us with an additional strategy. For Equine to succeed (meaning making big bucks), it will have to 1st raise a lot of money, from banks, from investors. If the people of Penang make a LOT of noise objecting to this, perhaps even gathering a boycott movement that the people of Penang will not buy, lease or rent anything in PGCC (and other Equine projects), and will boycott any company that set up business in PGCC, investors and bankers may be sufficiently concerned about the viability of the project. If Equine cannot raise the money to fund this project, it will have to come to the table and listen to the public (and its potential customers)

I believe in the power of the consumers, but the people need to stand together on this.

Of course, I am hoping that our government is not foolish enough to pump public (our) money into funding this project. Or bail out Equine with taxpayer money. On second thought, they just might! So a threat to use the ballot box at the next general election will be an added insurance.

By: sophocles

sophocles — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:06:08 +0000

the pg turf club was not bought for rm488mil. the new turf club in batu kawan costs something like that to construct. the report in the media that the land was bought for rm488mil is wrong.

yes, the members will move out only when the new turf club is ready.

each member was paid rm20,000 as compensation for their future expenses to the future turf club in batu kawan.

to those who are absolutely against the project, they better get used to the idea of pgcc..because it is coming to pg to stay…in what form, however, we don’t know for sure…after all building plans can change.

not all were in favour of moving out and of the project.
but the majority voted in favour of moving out… in this sense it was a democratic decision.

no, the ngos won’t win…there is someone who can stop the project, but he isn’t going to do anything about it…

so we better resign ourselves to accepting the inevitable….