KUCHING: Incumbent Santubong Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar “most likely” will not contest in the 15th General Election (GE15), says Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg.
KUCHING, Feb 14 The Ministry of Women, Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development wants to see Special Olympics Sarawak programmes extended to all regions of the state to provide opportunities for more individuals with intellectual disabilities to join the sports. Its minister Datuk Sri.
Issue of statelessness still unresolved Pix for illustration purposes.
SARAWAK has prided itself as a state that has kept away illegal immigrants, but in its own backyard it finds itself in a bind with a host of problems related to its own people.
Many indigenous people remain stateless, especially the Penan who have been waiting for decades to be accorded Malaysian citizenship and to be recognised as citizens of Malaysia.
Long delays and excessive bureaucracy on the part of the National Registration Department (NRD) have left many applicants in the lurch and their citizenship woes run into three generations.
The issue has been made difficult by their nomadic culture, and compounded by rural poverty and illiteracy as most Penans cannot read nor write in Bahasa Malaysia. Almost all of them cannot afford the luxury of travel.
Bukit Assek assemblyman Irene Chang
(pic) said on Thursday (Feb 4) that the requirement is a regressive move by the government and would leave many undocumented children in the country deprived of education.
Chang said she had already received calls from concerned guardians and adoptive parents in Sarawak concerning the policy. A few who thought that their children had already been successfully enrolled and who have been participating in online classes in government schools since the start of the school year have now been informed that the enrolment could not be approved after all, she said.
She feared that this new policy would definitely have a detrimental effect both psychologically and physically on the children concerned.
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Sarawak Welfare, Community, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Sri Fatimah Abdullah stressed that a complete probe was needed in order to regain the confidence of the public in regard to the safety of suspects in police custody. AFP pic
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MIRI, Jan 18 State Welfare, Community, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Sri Fatimah Abdullah wants the police to thoroughly investigate the rape of a 16-year-old girl at the lockup of a police station here by a fellow detainee.
Saying she was ‘horrified and astonished’ that such an incident could happen, Fatimah stressed that a complete probe was needed in order to regain the confidence of the public in regard to the safety of suspects in police custody.