Archive for the 'Accountability' Category

A tale of two turf clubs

By now, most of you would probably have received an email (perhaps more than once) pointing out the uncanny parallels between the assassinations of US presidents Lincoln and Kennedy.
I thought I would do a similar exercise for the Selangor Turf Club and the Penang Turf Club, which I think is quite revealing in showing their [...]

State government officials must declare assets now

Yesterday, a factory owner in Penang alerted me to the Penang Chief Minister’s response to a reader’s question in The Star.
(Reader) Your exco members are required to declare their assets but this has yet to be done.
(Chief Minister) We wanted to but the Prime Minister’s department communicated to my state secretary that they [...]

Causeway toll bonanza for MRCB in the offing (updated)

UPDATED While the rakyat suffer from Barang Semua Naik, another well-connected company has hit the jackpot with this get-rich-quick scheme. How do they come up with these “brainwaves”… Well, as they say, make hay while the sun shines - for it may not be shining much longer for the BN. Instead of investing in public [...]

Australian health care consultant shown the door

Chalk up another victory for civil society groups.
The Health Ministry has terminated the services of Australian health care financing consultant Karl Karol, it was revealed on Sunday in Penang.
A senior Health Ministry official, Dr Lim Kuan Joo, told a ‘Malaysian Health Care Financing Scheme’ seminar organised by the Penang Medical Practitioners’ Society that Karol’s services [...]

Penang govt must probe PGCC/Batu Kawan deals

Reading theSun’s interview with the Penang Chief Minister, I was puzzled about one thing: why can’t the state government initiate its own comprehensive probe of the PGCC or call for an independent inquiry - and make public the outcome?
Can’t they see for themselves what happened? Must they wait for evidence of mala fide to be [...]