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Coming to the close of Women’s Week, Christina Suntai interviews Lumat anak Lebong from Kampong Lebor, Serian. Lumat makes a decent living weaving baskets out of materials she gathers from the jungle. Her day begins at 8 am with a trip to Serian to sell her wares. She then returns home and works until midnight weaving baskets.
Peter John Jaban talks to Doris Jones who is a lawyer from Sabah, living in London as a single parent, narrating the kind of financial aids and support she gets from the British Government, from housing to child care. How does it compare with the help back home?
We will be talking with a Malaysian female doctor about the scandal that only RM422 is spent per person on women’s health care in Sabah and Sarawak compared to RM1800 for each West Malaysian woman. Yet, with the distances involved, it is far more costly to provide adequate maternity services in Sarawak.
John Bara comments on witnessing the long lines of people scrambling for Bantuan Malaysia Satu of RM500 and the disappointment of many due to lack of information on how the money is being dispersed. YB Alan Ling from Piasau, Miri, counters Peter Chin’s fraudulent claim that the RM500 giveaway is money from Barisanl National.
And we talk to some opposition candidates about the challenges of campaigning in the distant and remote rural areas.
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RM500 gift to a household is a taxpayer money, so those are eligible are entitled to get it. It is not Barisan Nasional money. BN only can make sweet promises, but whatever come from their mouths are just like songs that are sweet to the ears. Here are some proof.
1. A promise of "five-star" modern longhouses – fancy living ina "five-star" double-storey longhouse each bilik costs RM226.768.80 complete with a garden the size of one-third of a football field. Any of these long houses been built in Sarawak, where?
2. New roads and better basic amenities for Sabah and Sarawak. Bn leaders can go and visit by themselves to rural areas where you can see the real situation, no roads, no pipe water, dilapidated houses.
Money not worthy of giving, why not spend for the critical development in the rural areas. Poor judgement and corrupt money politics. All the money will go to the KEDAI CINA…its up for grabs!!