Why must thing will only move with higher-up intervention?

If only through the intervention of the wife of Prime Minister that a commonly known poverty case can be swiftly settled, I doubt very much on the capability, reliability, and competency of our civil service.

The head of the civil service must be made to be responsible for a poor performance like this.

I hope that this incident is only an isolated case which many said otherwise. If PM Najib really wanted to save the nation and BN from being disliked by its own people, he must put his feet down on the mismanagement or mis-administration on the part of the civil service.

Sometimes it may be unfair to single out the civil service for poor performance of the government, but for being a very important part of the government, they must upheld their charter and responsibility whom the people entrusted to administrate and govern.

Maybe the civil servants and the elected YBs should be continuously undergoing some sort of patriotic camp to get their mindset and spirit in the right track. They should know that their performance matters in our nation survival in the world, and they must not be complacent and become unrealistic.

But, who dares to work on them as we all know that they are so powerful now? They can only be made to be reasonable powerful by the party who made them extremely powerful. They should be powerful in their good administration and not powerful in slowing down the aspiration of the people.

From Maliau Basin as a future 'World's Heritage' to Coal-fired Power Plant in Lahad Datu

PM: M'sia keen to list Sabah's Maliau Basin as a world heritage site
By MUGUNTAN VANAR / The Star online

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/1/29/nation/20110129131341&sec=nation

Listing it as the world's heritage will be difficult, taking its advantages for sustainable benefits from its 'world's heritage' status will be an even more difficult challenge for the government and its people; it will take both the state and federal governments a lot of wisdoms and competencies to make the Maliau Basin a long term asset of Sabah and Malaysia.


The return and the values from the status shall be getting larger as the times go by because tropical rainforest with conservation, research,  and recreational purposes becomes rarer in the world by then. it's the Eco-tourism that we are talking about, the future income earner of Sabah.


The conservation of Maliau Basin, or the likes, may have to deploy of high technology as an addition in order to be effective. In fact, the whole Sabah should go for Green Energy policy and it ought to be committal in this frontier, be it in the west or east coast or interior of the state, the government must make landmark decision to adopt the latest trend of earth living direction in order to move on confidently in the world village community.


The much-talked and controversial coal-fired power plant project for the east coast of Sabah should therefore be abandoned for good.

Labuan Bridge or Queen Elizabeth Hospital?

I refer to the news appearing in the Star Online this afternoon under the title: "A step closer to Labuan-Sabah bridge" by Mr. RUBEN SARIO, and I have reservation on the possibility of building the Labuan-Sabah bridge in the near future. I just feel that it may never take off.

Full details of the report is as shown in the URL:-
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/5/nation/20090305140818&sec=nation

As the Prime Minister later said, after launching the halal distribution hub at Kiansam, some 20kms from downtown Labuan yesterday, that “Something of this magnitude is not immediately possible but it should be given due attention”.

Although the long-awaited bridge, between mainland Sabah and the Labuan island, will definitely boost up the future prospects of Labuanites, the high costs involved must be justified based on value return and urgency, for example.

The project was estimated at approximately RM550million in 1997 under the The Labuan Development Masterplan; it may be much higher comes 2009. It could well be in the billion mark if it were to go ahead now.

Questions are : Why do we need a bridge for Labuan & Sabah? Isn't the present ferry service good enough for the situation there?

What we really hear most is that the ferry service, being a monopoly, has not been doing its "duty" well despite enjoying very profitable business. In other words, the operator is taking its sweet time by doing little instead of bringing out its bests yet.

The fate of Labuan people are therefore in the hands of the ferry operator who can change the island's future by simply improving services such as increasing the frequency of service with reliability.

Do we still need the bridge now if the ferry operator could do their part well? The answer may be "yes! but not now",if the justification hurdle can not be met.

The RM1b might as well be used in other more pressing areas such as, notably, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in Kota Kinabalu.

Our leaders should not have announced something that may be years away without taking into account of the reality. They should look into the real needs now than doing something considering as "impractical" at this moment. At least presently, it may not be the bridge that Labuan people needs most.

What the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi should have been done, pragmatically, was to get the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) and the Finance ministry to immediately release the urgently needed funds for projects or schemes meant to help the people getting over the impact of the financial tsunami, as well as solving the woes of Sabahan over the QEH affair.