Here you go again.. direct tender, negotiated tender, restricted tender, tender terhad or whatever-you-may-call-it, the effect is the same – mind-boggling amounts of money expended with little accountability.
And then they need to introduce GST for the rakyat to cough up while patients have to pay for nuts and bolts and screws needed for surgical procedures.
Ho-hum, another year, another auditor-general’s report with the usual outrages.
Residents of Tanjung Bunga recently sent a letter to ask about the current status of the ‘Sore Thumb’ – but so far apparently no response.
While all the focus is on Penang’s high domestic water consumption, the Penang trade consumption is often ignored – but businesses enjoying cheap water guzzle 40 per cent of total Penang water consumption.
While the state government rightly calls on Penang’s domestic consumers to reduce their high per capita water consumption, it should also ask Penang trade consumers to curtail their water usage.
Just received the following message via email from a PKR politician:
Bagi jawatan-jawatan Timbalan Presiden dan Naib-naib Presiden, kami (Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Nurul Izzah Anwar dan Rafizi Ramli) telah sepakat untuk menawarkan satu gagasan bersama yang menekankan kepada kepimpinan bersama (collective leadership) dan barisan pimpinan masa depan untuk melonjakkan keyakinan rakyat kepada KEADILAN.
Why hasn’t Penang been hit with water rationing so far? Himanshu Bhatt wrote this piece for fz.com a couple of days ago.
What is Penang Forum’s stand on the Seri Tanjung Pinang Phase 2 project? Penang Forum rejects the Detailed Environmental Impact Assessment of the project because of its flawed assumptions, methodologies, calculations, and inconsistencies. We find that the harm outweighs the benefits.
Thus this Detailed EIA is NOT acceptable and should NOT be approved.
Bernard Khoo @ Zorro Unmasked
Saturday, 5 April and Sunday, 6 April
Parlour 1 at St Ignatius Church, No. 2, Jalan SS25/23 Taman Plaza, 47301 PJ
1.00pm to 10.00pm – Wake
Sunday, 7 April
St Ignatius Church, PJ
11.00am – Funeral mass
Irene Fernandez
If you were unable to pay your last respects to Irene Fernandez in Seremban and Subang Jaya/Shah Alam, those of you living in the northern region have another chance.
People of all faiths are welcome.
Wednesday, 9 April
Church of Christ the King, Jalan Kolam Air, Sungai Petani
7.00pm – Mass and final rites
7.45pm – Fellowship at Pastoral Centre (behind the church).
Thursday, 10 April
Catholic Cemetery, Jalan Sungai Layar, Sungai Petani
10.00am – Irene’s ashes will be laid to rest.
Irene’s funeral mass at the Church of Divine Mercy in Shah Alam yesterday was celebrated by Penang Archbishop Sebastian Francis, Archbishop Emeritus Soter Fernandez and Archbishop Emeritus Murphy Pakiam along with a dozen priests.
Another hero has gone to rest. The colourful, outspoken blogger Bernard Khoo succumbed to cancer today after a 21-month battle. He was 74.
