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KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Households with monthly income below RM2,500 and those earning between RM2,501 and RM5,000 are eligible to receive RM500 and RM300 respectively under the MCO 3.0 Bantuan Prihatin Rakyat (BPR) aid package. ....
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The second phase of Bantuan Prihatin Rakyat (BPR) payments involving an allocation of RM2.75bil will be made in stages starting this Friday (May 7). Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz said the payment would benefit 8.4 million recipients comprising 3.6 million households, one million senior citizens and 3.8 million single individuals. He said the payment will be credited into the recipients’ bank accounts between May 7 and May 12. He said for those who do not have a bank account (including in Sabah and Sarawak), the cash payment will be made through Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN) from May 17. The status of BPR approval can be checked at https://bpr.hasil.gov.my from this Friday. ....
Courtesy of Swain County YouTube National calls for stronger gun control legislation have prompted some Swain County residents to ask commissioners to make the county a 2nd Amendment sanctuary. Donna Cole brought forward almost 1000 signatures to the commission in support of the resolution in March. Cole said that citizens need to be able to defend themselves. “If you take the weapons away from the regular people, then the only people that are going to have weapons are the criminals,” said Cole, who is 66. The petition started before the two mass shootings in March in Atlanta and Bolder. Cole explained that “illegal” immigrants, BLM and ANTIFA are groups that she is concerned about. ....
2:45 Reporter Lilly Knoepp talks with Nikwasi Initiative Director Elaine Eisenbraun about the next stage of plans for the areas around the Nikwasi Mound in Franklin. The Initiative secured the deed to the mound in 2019. Now Eisenbraun says the agriculture of the early Cherokee will be celebrated at the site. The nonprofit that took control of the sacred Nikwasi Mound in Franklin two years ago is releasing more details about its plans for the site. The Nikwasi Initiative is made up of representatives from Macon County, the town of Franklin, Eastern Band of Cherokee(EBCI) and Mainspring Conservation Trust. Elaine Eisenbraun is its new director. She recently updated the Macon County Commissioners and the Franklin Town Council that the initiative wants to focus on the agricultural history of the site. ....