21 Feb 2021 / 20:00 H. Dr Maszlee Malik - Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21: Several opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) today suggested that teachers and school staff should also be given priority in receiving the COVID-19 vaccination like other frontliners.
The matter was among five proposals submitted by seven opposition MPs in a joint statement today following the Education Ministry’s (MOE) announcement on the reopening of school sessions scheduled to begin in early March.
The MPs are Dr Maszlee Malik (Simpang Renggam), Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad (Setiawangsa), Teo Nie Ching (Kulai), Datuk Dr Hasan Baharom (Tampin), Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman (Muar), Amiruddin Hamzah (Kubang) and Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis (Kota Belud)
JOHOR BARU: A Johor Islamic Religious Department (JAINJ) assistant officer has been slapped with three bribery charges amounting to RM26,800 at the Sessions court here.
Nurul Hazlin Hashim, 37, pleaded not guilty to all the charges read to him before Sessions Judge Ahmad Kamal Arifin Ismail on Wednesday (Feb 17).
According to the charge sheet, the accused allegedly accepted bribes from a supply company at a bank at Taman Mohd Yassin in Simpang Renggam between Oct 27 and Nov 4,2019.
In the first charge, Nurul Hazlin was accused of accepting a bribe worth RM12,800 from the company’s owner as an inducement for her to recommend the company for a seminar project titled Seminar Aqidah Ahli Sunnah Wal Jamaah Saudara Kita Negeri Johor 2019 between Oct 27 and Oct 29 that year.
JOHOR BAHRU, Feb 17: A civil servant was charged at the Sessions Court here today with three counts of accepting bribe totalling RM26,800 two years ag.
AND then there were five.
Now that Gerakan has joined the Perikatan Nasional coalition, it has five members: Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia, PAS, Sabah STAR and Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP).
On Thursday, in a ceremony with Gerakan president Datuk Dr Dominic Lau, Perikatan chairman and Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin formally accept the party as a coalition member.
The last poll the party contested was the Tanjung Piai by-election in Johor in November 2019, where it stood as a third force. It received 1,707 votes while Bersatu/Pakatan Harapan garnered 10,380 votes and MCA/Barisan Nasional won by a landslide of 25,466 votes.
14 Feb 2021 / 20:08 H.
KLUANG: Johor Police chief Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay (
pix) was confident that the police have adhered to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) during the recent shootout in Batu Pahat which killed four suspected armed robbers.
He said the suspects had fired a few shots and attacked the police first before the police fired back at them out of self-defence.
“I hope any quarters including non-governmental organisation (NGO) would listen and take a look at my official statement before making any statements,” he told reporters at the Kluang District Police Headquarters (IPD) here, today.
He was commenting on a statement made by an NGO known as Eliminating Deaths & Abuse in Custody Together (EDICT) which questioned whether the police adhered to the SOPs during the incident.