Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael D Jeyakumar is seriously considering taking the federal government to court for withholding the annual grant for constituency development.
He said he has appointed a lawyer to study the matter and has given himself two months to decide whether or not to proceed with the suit.
“We want to make sure the case is watertight,” he said when contacted today. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
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Starry-eyed from a recent visit to Venezuela, a Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) leader strongly recommended that Malaysia adopt that country’s pro-people policies where a whole range of services are provided free.
PSM deputy president M Saraswathy (left) said unlike our government which imposes burdensome taxes like the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) on the public, the social democracy practising Venezuelan government provide free necessities such as health and education for all citizens.
Education from kindergarten to university level is free and the students enjoy three free meals a day as well free transportation from their homes to educational centres, she added.
Also, Venezuelans are charged monthly minimum rates of only 50 sen each for water and electricity supplies and they enjoy an efficient and cheap transport system. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
Barely 48 hours after the Federal Court had affirmed Zambry Abd Kadir as Perak menteri besar on Feb 9, a demolition team from the Land Office of Larut Matang and Selama descended on a 15-hectare plot farmed by squatters in the Air Kuning area, on the southern rim of Taiping.
Air Kuning falls under Changkat Jering which is one of three state wards in the parliamentary constituency of Bukit Gantang, presently held by deposed Menteri Besar Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin of PAS.
The state seat was won by Mohd Osman Jailu, formerly of PKR but from February last year, a BN-supporting independent.
Armed with hammers, axes and chainsaws, the demolition squad took three hours to level two wooden shacks that served as dwelling places for workers and employers of a 10-person cooperative who had developed the former mining land the past 12 years.
They cleared undergrowth and shrubs, cultivated vegetable plots, reared fish in ponds, raised cows, goats and poultry, and cultivated fruit trees.
But within a matter of three hours on the morning of Feb 11, two days after the apex court’s decision affirming Zambry as menteri besar, a demolition squad arrived at the plot which is located behind the Taman Kuning Sari housing estate.
The demolition squad, from the Land Office of Larut Matang and Selama, were backed up by the Federal Reserve Unit, police from the Taiping contingent of the force, JKR Taiping, and tractors from Gamuda, the developers of the double-tracking system connecting Ipoh with the north. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
An elderly joss-stick maker born in the year of the Rooster is crowing with happiness at receiving a Chinese New Year ang pow from Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTMB) -permission for him to continue his with business on its land.
For the past year, Liew Chin Nam (right), 65, was in a dilemma when he was ordered both by the Kinta district land office and KTMB to vacate the railway land in Kanthan, Chemor, Perak where his family had been making the joss sticks for half a century.
His troubles came when KTMB initiated its double-tracking railway project under Gamuda, putting him under tremendous pressure to vacate the land.
Liew (right) had sought the help of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) which took his case to the Ipoh High Court on July 5, 2009, after officials from the land office had threatened to demolish his joss-stick factory by July 15 last year. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
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Feb
Monarch Rules
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) is disappointed with the Federal Court Decision in declaring Zambry Abd Kadir of BN as the rightful Perak Menteri Besar. The decision has further consequences as this means a Ruler can override the verdict of the people in deciding who shall be the leader of the State or a country.
The decision also means that the democratic verdict of the people through an Election can be overruled by the ruler by degree without letting the Assemblyperson chosen by the people having a say.
This verdict will further strengthen our convictions that the courts are not independent when it comes to major decisions. This dangerous precedent will put Malaysian democracy and justice many steps backwards.
Released by
S.Arutchelvan
Secretary General
(Tel: 019-2537791)
The PSM views the government’s current concern over the allocation of PTPTN loans as a piecemeal critique of a very wrong policy, that of privatized tertiary education.
The Higher Education Minister has been quoted as saying that the fund terms of the PTPTN would be reviewed to make sure only needy students would avail of it. This is not because the government has had a sudden change of heart favouring the poor. Rather in its typical cart before the horse style of doing business, it has discovered that PTPTN borrowers have defaulted to the tune of RM1 billion, and also that if not reviewed the government bill for private education will shoot up to RM5 billion by 2013.
What is needed is not a review of the PTPTN loan terms but a total revamp of the higher education system which has in great part been contracted out to private businessmen. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
Pemuda Sosialis telah mengadakan satu sidang akhbar pada hari ini (03/02/2010) untuk menuntut pemansuhan yuran sekolah yang membebankan rakyat Malaysia. Satu kajian awal telah dilakukan dan diberikan kepada pihak media untuk membongkarkan kepincangan pihak berkuasa yang tidak mengambil berat beban rakyat negara ini dan melakukan pengurangan bantuan pendidikan untuk rakyat biasa.
Sidang ini diterajui oleh dua penyelaras kebangsaan untuk Pemuda Sosialis PSM iaitu Sdr Bawani dan Sdr Karthiges dan dihadiri bersama Sdr M.Tanapakiam (seorang ibu), Sdr Song Yong (aktivis DEMA), Sdr T.Ramalingam (PSM Semenyih) dan Sdr Basir (PSM). ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) issued a memorandum to the Perak State Election Commission for its delay in the issuance of a permit to register voters during the Thaipusam celebrations on January 30. The protest memo was handed over to its Deputy Director, Wan Mohammed Salleh by PSM Deputy Chairman, Ms M. Saraswathy. She was accompanied by PSM Committee member K. Segar Kunasekaran.
PSM had applied to the Election Commission last December for approval to register voters in view of the high number of unregistered voters in the country (500,000 in Perak). The party was then informed that its appointment letter would be released within two weeks. It had requested for 10,000 application forms. However, PSM was later informed that such a number would require the EC to send its officers along for the exercise. This was made conditional upon the release of the registration forms. The party found this strange as no such condition was extended to other political parties. ARTIKEL PENUH (MORE) »
