Will Sabahan able to move up the ladder of higher income by 2015?

Of course, Sabahan can move up the ladder of higher income if all the basic infrastructures promised over the years by the respective governments are fulfilled without further delay.

I feel like crying when I saw the above headline published in today's Daily Express.

I'm almost speechless after reading the news report as the announcement, and its implementation, is 20 years overdue.

I'm actually angry with the government for not seeing the lights during all these years.

However, it's still not too late.

Higher income will ease brain drain, or resources drains, question is how to achieve it?

Today, our country is losing talents or professionals to our neighbours such as Singapore because of the big income gap; now not only that, we are losing the low-level workers such as plantation workers too.

We have to nib it at the bud before it's too late as every bodies are fleeing for a greener pastures elsewhere.

Due to the developments, we need more retain workforces in all the industries and businesses, especially the plantation and the tourism industry.

We need more skilled workers in the ICT too.

We need to attract good peoples to work or live here, regardless of their origins.

The 1Malaysia fits the requirement, but would it succeed?

The public confidence has been going low with the sporadic negative comments from some BN's higher ranking officers lately though.

Today, ICT is considered the foundation and the locomotive for higher income where more revenues can be earned by making the industries and businesses more productive and efficient. But, a body to really spearheading the ICT application efforts in the government and the society is still very much lacking, or none at all. There's simply no concerted efforts or leadership on this important future infrastructure at all.

Had we adopted the ICT in larger scale in those early years, we'd have produced not only one 'Bill Gate' but many 'Bill Gates' if given the right environment to develop.

Our economy could have been 100 times, or more, than today's market size if ICT and modern technology were deployed early.

If, and only if, that our government, knows what they are doing, and stick to it, else, we may have to see all the expectations in our dreams only.