Saturday 26 November 2011

Penubuhan Peace Party menjadi sejarah hitam SUPP – George Chan


Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam


MIRI, 26 November — Presiden Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak (SUPP), Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam hari ini memberitahu tidak tahu mengenai adanya usaha menubuhkan Peace Party bagi menggantikan parti itu.

“Saya tidak tahu mengenai Peace Party, namun saya berharap ia tidak membabitkan ahli-ahli parti. Kalaulah perpecahan dan penubuhan parti baru itu benar, ini adalah sejarah hitam kerana SUPP merupakan parti yang tertua di Sarawak,” katanya hari ini.

Dr Chan memberitahu, sepanjang 30 tahun pengalaman dalam parti, SUPP tidak pernah bertelingkah sesama sendiri sehingga sampai ke tahap mahu menubuhkan parti baru.

Beliau mengulas desas-desus yang menyatakan kumpulan tertentu dalam SUPP sudah menghantar permohonan kepada Pendaftar Pertubuhan (ROS) untuk menubuhkan sebuah parti iaitu Peace Party bagi menggantikan SUPP.

Difahamkan, kumpulan tersebut menghantar permohonan pada tahun lepas dan perkembangan terkini ROS sedang memproses permohonan parti tersebut.

Beliau menjelaskan, perpecahan parti ini bukan sahaja menghancurkan masa depan parti malah memberi kesan yang tidak baik kepada Barisan Nasional (BN) semasa Pilihan Raya Umum nanti.

“Persaingan dan semangat untuk pemilihan dalam parti baik, namun janganlah terbawa-bawa emosi itu ke luar sehingga mahu menghancurkan parti”. “Ini tidak akan membawa kebaikan malah keburukan. Perwakilan sepatutnya bersikap profesional sesama sendiri. Kalau mereka merasakan yang terbaik, tunjuklah yang terbaik. Namun jika sudah kalah semasa pemilihan, faham-fahamlah,” katanya

Tuesday 22 November 2011

HOME FOR THE AGED , MIRI SARAWAK

Projek pembesaran Home For The Aged perlu tambahan RM100 ribu



Andy (kanan) menerima cek dari wakil Wanita dan Pemuda SUPP Pujut di Home for The Aged Krokop 9 hari ini.

KROKOP, 19 November – Jawatankuasa projek pembesaran rumah jagaan warga tua (Home For The Aged) Krokop 9 memerlukan tambahan RM100,000 untuk menyiapkan projek itu.

Pengerusinya Andy Chia memberitahu, projek melibatkan pembinaan dewan, tandas, tempat rawatan, dapur dan ruang makan itu menelan kos RM700,000 dan setakat ini mereka berjaya mengutip hanya RM600,000.

“Projek ini sudah bermula sejak Ogos lalu dan berdasarkan jadual perancangan serta peruntukan, ia dijangka siap sepenuhnya pada Mei tahun depan. Namun kita memerlukan peruntukan tambahan,” katanya pada majlis penyampaian cek sumbangan di Home for The Aged, Krokop 9 hari ini.

Hadir sama Timbalan Pengerusi jawatankuasa projek merangkap Setiausaha Politik Menteri Tenaga Teknologi Hijau dan Air, Dato’ Sebastian Ting.

Chia memberitahu, manakala dewan dan bilik mesyuarat dijangka siap pada bulan Januari ini sebelum sambutan perayaan Tahun Baru Cina.

Sementara itu, jawatankuasa menerima derma berjumlah RM8,000 iaitu RM5000 merupakan sumbangan peribadi dari Han Jeng Fong dan Foo Soo Siang sementara RM3000 dari Pemuda dan Wanita SUPP Pujut yang diperolehi dari majlis amal parti itu.

Mereka yang ingin menghulurkan derma boleh menghubungi pejabat SUPP Pujut di talian 085-650688.

George Chan tidak akan libatkan diri dalam AJK baru SUPP Piasau

PUSAT BANDAR, 21 November — Bekas pengerusi Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak (SUPP) cawangan Piasau, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr. George Chan Hong Nam tidak akan membayangi ahli jawatankuasa yang baru dipilih atau melibatkan diri dalam apa jua keputusan berkaitan parti itu.

“Saya menaruh kepercayaan sepenuhnya kepada krediabiliti dan keupayaan ahli-ahli jawatankuasa yang kebanyakkan terdiri daripada muka baru”, katanya selepas mempengerusikan mesyuarat jawatankuasa SUPP peringkat cawangan Piasau di Hotel Mega malam tadi.

Dr Chan yang juga presiden parti memberitahu, malah muka baru ini mempunyai idea yang lebih segar dan bernas serta mempunyai tenaga yang mantap untuk mengemudikan parti di peringkat cawangan.

Dato’ Sebastian Ting memenangi undi untuk memegang jawatan sebagai pengerusi SUPP cawangan Piasau, manakala Hii King Chong pula dicadangkan untuk menjadi timbalan pengerusi.

“Saya percaya, kumpulan baru pimpinan Ting dan Hii ini mampu membawa parti ke tahap pencapaian yang lebih cemerlang berbanding semasa saya masih menjadi pengerusi,” katanya.

Mengulas pemilihan peringkat cawangan, Chan tidak menafikan ia persaingan yang sengit dan mencabar antara Ting dan Hii, yang mana Ting berjaya memperolehi 4 undi majoriti mengatasi Hii.

“Pemilihan peringkat cawangan sudahpun berakhir, saya berharap kumpulan yang bersaing sebelum ini kembali bersatu hati sejajar dengan pegangan parti iaitu ‘Sa’ati’. Saya percaya Ting dan Hii dapat merealisasikan pembangunan pesat di bandar raya Miri,” katanya.

Chan, mengumumkan persaraan dari bidang politik selepas gagal mempertahankan kerusi Piasau kepada calon Parti Tindakan Rakyat (DAP) Alan Ling semasa Pilihan Raya Negeri (PRN).

Monday 21 November 2011

ANDY CHIA RETAINS PUJUT SUPP CHAIRMAN

Chia retains Pujut SUPP top post while Lee takes Senadin unchallenged
By STEPHEN THEN stephenthen@thestar.com.my
MIRI: Voting by party members at the SUPP branch elections in Miri has been keen, especially in the Piasau branch, which has been helmed by party president Tan Sri Dr George Chan over the past 30 years.


Datuk Sebastian Ting, the political secretary of Miri MP and Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water Datuk Seri Peter Chin, locked horns with Hii Khing Chiong, the managing director of Kingwood Group of Companies, to become Dr Chan’s successor.

Polling at this hot seat got off to an enthusiastic start yesterday morning with hundreds of SUPP members queuing patiently at a hotel here to cast their votes.

As at 3.30pm, some 750 members had cast their ballots to select the candidates to fill the 43 committee posts and 15 delegate positions.

The voting ended at 4pm and counting began soon after.

Most of the members who turned up were natives, particularly Ibans.

Campaigners for Ting and Hii were seen distributing name lists and cards to promote the candidates of their choice.

Piasau is a hot seat because the branch chairman, by tradition, is chosen as the Barisan Nasional candidate for the seat in the state elections.

Piasau was previously part of the Miri SUPP branch.

SUPP Miri branch chairman and wakil rakyat has always been appointed as assistant state minister, state minister, deputy federal minister or federal minister.

Dr Chan, the former deputy chief minister 1, is stepping down as the Piasau chairman after his defeat by DAP’s Ling Sie Kiong in the April state elections.

He has also indicated his intention to step down as the party’s president during next month’s triennial delegates conference in Kuching.

At the SUPP Pujut branch elections yesterday, incumbent chairman Andy Chia retained his post for a third term.

At the Bekenu branch, Chin started the meeting at 5pm and is expected to retain the chairman post unchallenged.

State Assistant Minister of Communications and Sports Datuk Lee Kim Shin retained the Senadin branch chairman post unchallenged.

SEBASTIAN TING RETAINS PIASAU SUPP CHAIRMAN

KUCHING: Not since the early years of SUPP have its members seen so much excitement and drama at their branch meetings.

For a party that has become accustomed to no-contest internal elections, the significance of the branch polls being held throughout the state yesterday was certainly felt by every member who turned up to cast his or her vote.

It was particularly intense in Piasau, where former deputy chief minister and outgoing SUPP president Tan Sri Dr George Chan has decided not to defend his chairman’s post.

The branch saw Datuk Sebastian Ting, the political secretary to SUPP presidential candidate Datuk Seri Peter Chin, locking horns with Sibu-born Hii King Chiong, the managing director of Kingwood Hotel group.

After almost postponing the election of the branch chairman, when several newly elected committee members became absent, the remaining committee members — after a show of hands — decided to go on with it at about 11.40pm.

Ting garnered 23 votes after a secret ballot to defeat Hii by four votes. After the polls, Hii was nominated for the deputy chairman’s post but he declined the nomination.

Ting had also tried to persuade him to change his mind but failed. At midnight, it was decided that the new chairman be allowed to decide his own office-bearers. With the two presidential aspirants Chin and Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh winning uncontested as the chairmen of Bekenu and Sibu branches respectively yesterday, Piasau’s polls result became even more important in deciding who SUPP’s next president could be.

Chin and Wong will face off during the SUPP triennial delegates’ conference here on Dec 10 and 12 in what would be the ailing party’s watershed event.

In Kuching, Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian scored high to win the Pending branch chairman’s post despite an uproar earlier on involving the distribution of candidates’ list by those said to be allied to him.

Dr Sim, however, insisted after his victory, that he belonged to no team and was ready to work with anyone, while in nearby Kota Sentosa, Datuk Alfred Yap continues to rule the roost.

Sebastian Ting pengerusi SUPP Cawangan Piasau yang baharu

Sebastian Ting pengerusi SUPP Cawangan Piasau yang baharu, Hii tolak jawatan Timbalan Pengerusi

Reaksi Ting selepas diumumkan sebagai Pengerusi SUPP cawangan Piasau malam tadi, kelihatan sama Chan.
Ting berjabat tangan dengan Hii sebaik sahaja pengumuman keputusan pemilihan selesai malam tadi.




PUSAT BANDAR, 21 November — Dato’ Sebastian Ting menang sebagai pengerusi Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak (SUPP) cawangan Piasau selepas menewaskan usahawan Hii King Chiong dalam mesyuarat agung tiga tahun sekali parti di sini malam tadi.

Ting yang juga Setiausaha Politik kepada Menteri Tenaga, Teknologi Hijau dan Air sebelum ini merupakan timbalan pengerusi SUPP cawangan Piasau menggantikan bekas pengerusi, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam.

Sejurus selepas diumumkan sebagai pengerusi, Ting mencadangkan Hii sebagai timbalan pengerusi, namun Hii menolak.

Seramai 805 ahli parti turun mengundi bagi memilih ahli jawatankuasa cawangan dan delegasi untuk penggal 2012 hingga 2014. Cawangan Piasau mempunyai 3,481 dan pertandingan kali ini menyaksikan persaingan yang sengit.

Dalam pada itu, Keith Chin dan Suzanne Lee masing-masing dipilih sebagai Ketua Pemuda dan Ketua Wanita untuk SUPP cawangan Piasau.

Ting ketika ditemui berkata, beliau akan bertemu dengan Hii dalam tempoh minggu ini bagi membincangkan jawatan timbalan pengerusi.

“Saya akan berjumpa dan memujuk beliau untuk mempertimbangkan jawatan sebagai timbalan saya. Selain itu, kami akan berbincang mengenai barisan ahli jawatankuasa parti yang baharu.”

“Saya berharap Hii dapat mempertimbangkan jawatan itu. Apa yang penting, semua ahli adri kedua-dua kumpulan dapat bekerjasama dan bersatu hati,” katanya yang bersemangat untuk mendekati ahli-ahli dari kumpulan Hii.

Beliau turut berterima kasih dengan ahli-ahli yang turun mengundi sekaligus membuktikan cinta mereka terhadap parti.

Mengenai pertandingan sengit kali ini, Ting berkata undi tersebut menghantar mesej yang amat penting iaitu semangat bekerjasama di samping mempersiapkan mereka untuk menghadapi Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU) akan datang.

“Ini merupakan pertandingan yang pertama dan amat sengit, namun saya gembira kerana proses berjalan lancar dari mula sampai akhir. Semua ahli cukup matang dan terkawal.”

Dalam pada itu, Ting mengakui beliau kini mengalas cabaran yang berat untuk meneruskan tanggungjawab sebagai pengerusi menggantikan Chan.

“Di hadapan saya terbentang jalan yang berliku dan mencabar. Bukan senang, namun jalan tersebut sudah ada, apa yang penting kami sekarang perlu meneruskan kerjasama dengan sokongan semua ahli dan rakyat. Saya pasti semangat ini dapat membantu kami untuk mengharunginya.”

Hii ketika ditemui berkata, beliau mengucapkan tahniah kepada Ting dan berharap dapat menjalankan tanggungjawab sebagai pengerusi dengan baik.

Sunday 20 November 2011

超耀赢卑尔骚主席

(本报美里20日讯)北砂地区令人引颈期盼的人联党卑尔骚支部改选,经过马拉松式的激烈竞争后,最终在复选中,陈超耀以23票比19票些微差距胜出,顺利坐上卑尔骚支部主席职位。

决定支部主席的执委票数,许庆璋取得369票,顺利进入执委名单之列,陈超耀也以352票进入执委榜内。在中选执委名单中,有23个人为陈系团队名单中的人马,也意味着,许系人马约为20人。

历经近13小时的选举终于于11时45分来到最关键的复选,必须由执委选出主席、署理主席、秘书、财政、组织秘书、宣教秘书6个职位。

由于当选的45名执委中,其中3人不在现场,必须由现场42人选出支部主席,最终陈超耀获得23票,以些许微差数险胜对手许庆璋,顺利当选支部主席。

陈超耀随即提议由许庆璋担任署理主席,获得卡兰比星附议,惟遭到许庆璋拒绝。
另外,许系人马也表示拒绝担任任何职位,团队则交由超耀自己组织,他们只担任执委。

●拿督陈超耀赢得砂人联党卑尔骚支部主席后尽显君子风度,与其竞争对手许庆璋握手。

Friday 18 November 2011

陈超耀提名风波 华贵:中央选委会裁决合理


陈华贵

(本报美里17日讯)砂人联党中央选举委员会(CENTRAL ELECTION COMMITEE)是由党中央最高领导层,即常务委员会(CWC)之前一致决定,成立以监督各支部和分部提名及选举的最高机构。

陈华贵今日针对仍有一小撮党领袖,对陈超耀上诉得直,成功恢复卑尔骚支部选举权,感到质疑,而作出解释

他说,既然这是监督党选举的最高机构,且也是常务委员会已一致通过成立的最高监督选举单位,因此由该选举委员去处理和作出最后裁决,并无不妥。

"何况各支部选举在即,如果有支部选举小组就一些候选人问题,无法作出裁决,交由党中央选举委员会去决定,是正确做法。毕竟如果各支部有面对选举的问题, 还要等到召开常务委员会去商讨和寻求解决方案,将面对时间紧迫限制。事实上,中央选举委员是常务委员会决定的选举监督最高权利的机构。"

陈华贵举例,这就好像举行州选时,一旦有关选区的选举官无法就一些选举问题作出裁决,他们必须向高层,即州选举官请示,并交由上层作出最后决定。

陈超耀上诉程序正确

至于陈超耀向党中央选举委员会提出上诉,且也附上抗议者文件,而经中央选举委员会审核后作出决定,陈超耀是有依循上诉程序。

Wednesday 16 November 2011

MAYOR: LANTIKAN RAKYAT BIASA MENJADI KAUNSELOR

Lantikan rakyat biasa menjadi kaunselor wajar dipertimbangkan – Lawrence Lai



PUSAT BANDAR— Cadangan melantik rakyat biasa dan bukannya ahli politik untuk memegang jawatan kaunselor Pihak Berkuasa Tempatan (PBT) mungkin wajar dipertimbangkan bagi mengurangkan ‘political flavour’, kata Datuk Bandar Miri Lawrence Lai.

Lai memberitahu, sebelum ini kaunselor dilantik dari kalangan ahli parti komponen Barisan Nasional iaitu Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak (SUPP), Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) dan Parti Demokratik Progresif Sarawak (SPDP).

Katanya, pelantikan dari parti politik ini sedikit sebanyak memberi kesan kurang baik kerana golongan tertentu cenderung menganggap fungsi majlis tempatan ‘dipolitikkan’ dan dipengaruhi oleh kepentingan parti tertentu.

“Justeru untuk mengurangkan persepsi ‘political flavour’ ini, saya menyambut baik cadangan Ketua Menteri Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud bar-baru ini untuk melantik kaunselor di kalangan rakyat biasa atau pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) yang tiada kaitan dengan politik,” katanya ketika ditemui hari ini.

Lai menambah, kaunselor boleh dilantik di kalangan mereka yang bergiat aktif dalam pertubuhan dan NGO seperti Bulan Sabit Merah, persekutuan Cina, pertubuhan bumiputera, persatuan wanita, belia dan warga emas.

“Mereka mempunyai banyak masa yang terluang selain mewakili komuniti dari pelbagai lapisan. Namun saya percaya perubahan ini tidak drastik dan mengambil masa lima hingga enam tahun untuk dilaksanakan,” katanya.

Mengenai pelantikan kaunselor untuk MBM, Lai berkata ia ditentukan oleh Kerajaan Negeri dan bukannya parti politik yang diwakili oleh mereka.

Setakat ini Majlis Bandaraya Miri mempunyai 27 kaunselor termasuk datuk bandar.

Suzanne Lee still leads SUPP Piasau Women


 

MIRI: Suzanne Lee Tze Ha has retained her post as head of the SUPP Piasau Women Section 2012-2014 during its triennial general meeting on Sunday.

She is assisted by Betty Pong Hon Kin (deputy chairperson), Lily Puk (first vice-chairperson), Hilda Voo Thien Fung (second vice-chairperson), Jessie Hong Chiew Keng (secretary), Yip Nyuk Chan (assistant secretary), Melinda Chan Choy Hung (treasurer) and Alice Fung Yee Ching (assistant treasurer).

The organising secretary is Yong Shui Yuon, Lau Ai Ing (assistant organising secretary), Tan Li Foong (publicity secretary), Annie Tiong Siew Hee (assistant publicity secretary), Susan Lau Su Kian (welfare) and Lai Yok Fong (assistant welfare).

Thirteen others are also elected to the new line-up. They are Yong Yok Min, Duri Usah, Bong Hiong Lan, Chan Chai Pin, Fong Yun Mei, Chia Siew Tow, Hu Hie Yieng, Ung Soon Khing, Law Siew Lian, Julie Ting Chek Ho, Magoeling Lacha Assan, Maureen Julin and Then Kong Yee.

Sebastian Ting masih berahsia mengenai jawatan yang akan ditandingi

Ting dan kumpulan penyokong Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui dari beberapa cawangan di Miri menunjukkan buku Pelan Transformasi SUPP sambil memegang banting yang menyokong beliau menjadi presiden parti.

Ting dan kumpulan penyokong Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui melaungkan slogan ‘Sa’ati’

MIRI, 16 November – Timbalan Pengerusi Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak (SUPP) cawangan Piasau, Dato’ Sebastian Ting masih berahsia mengenai jawatan yang akan ditandinginya dalam pemilihan peringkat cawangan parti yang berlangsung pada 20 November ini.

“Apa posisi dalam parti? Jauh di sudut hati, saya tahu posisi yang harus saya pilih. Kebanyakkan ahli parti dan sahabat baik dalam parti mempunyai fikiran yang sama. Mereka harus tahu posisi yang akan saya ambil, jadi kami sebenarnya ada hubungan,” katanya semasa ditanya oleh media mengenai posisi yang akan ditandinginya hari ini.

Setakat ini, usahawan Hii Khing Chiong sudah menyatakan hasrat untuk bertanding bagi jawatan pengerusi SUPP cawangan Piasau bagi menggantikan pengerusinya, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam yang juga Presiden SUPP.

Ting yang juga Setiausaha Politik kepada Menteri Tenaga, teknologi Hijau dan Air, Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui dalam konteks ini menyeru ahli parti agar memberi sokongan dan kerjasama dengan menghadirkan diri semasa Persidangan Tiga Tahun Sekali (TDC) diikuti pemilihan yang akan diadakan di Hotel Mega mulai jam 10 pagi.

Terdahulu, seramai 20 ahli SUPP mewakili pelbagai cawangan datang ke pejabat SUPP dan membawa sepanduk bertulis ‘Sokong Kumpulan Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui’ untuk menyokong beliau dipilih sebagai presiden.

“Saya mewakili beliau (Chin) ingin mengucapkan terima kasih kepada ahli-ahli yang meluangkan masa untuk datang ke sini dan menyatakan sokongan. Kami amat menghargai sokongan yang tidak berbelah bagi ini.” katanya.

“Saya rasa terharu dengan sokongan yang diberikan tatkala kami menghadapi saat yang sukar pada masa ini. Mereka ini saya sifatkan benar-benar mencintai parti,” katanya.

Tuesday 15 November 2011

擅自否定超耀参选资格 选举小组违背指示

















(本报美里15日讯)砂人联党美里卑尔骚支部选举小组的三名成员罔顾卑尔骚支部选举小组主席兼党中央选举委员会主席拿督巴丁宜陈康南医生,以及秘书长拿督沈庆辉发出暂缓判决陈超耀转移卑尔骚支部党员籍的参选资格是否合格事宜,而擅自作出宣判。
砂人联党中央主席兼党中央选举委员会暨美里卑尔骚支部选举小组主席的拿督巴丁宜陈康南医生今日受访时,如斯指出。他说,他们(选举小组三人)在昨天宣布陈超耀无参选资格的决定,并非是由他(选举小组主席)或在他的授权情况下宣布的,因此,有关的宣判并不生效!

指示仔细审核抗议内容

他续说,他和沈庆辉在昨天下午确实有接到有关选举小组的电话,而他们两人已经明确发出指示,必须要清楚仔细审核有关抗议内容后,等他作出决定。但是,他没有料到该三人选举小组却违背彼等两人的指示。

陈康南坦言,他们(三人)在昨日作出的宣判,且罔顾党中央发出2011年党选有参选资格的党员名册的合法性,便擅自否定了陈超耀的参选资格,已是越权挑战党中央所作出的决定。
他表示他在昨天接到电话询问后,亦还没有确认抗议者的身份和提呈的附属文件,并且他也对该抗议者在提出抗议陈超耀的参选资格,由始至终都没有在现场(卑尔骚支部)的情况亦表示纳闷。

“无论如何,针对该选举三人宣判陈超耀无参选资格,党中央选举委员会会尽快处理。”
询及目前诗巫、民丹莪、加拿逸和美里提名亦出现不少争议性的问题,陈康南表示,他相信媒体有过度渲染报导。而根据中央选举委员会接获的报告了解,其中许多问题可通过党章阐明的条文厘清。

一旦真的不幸出现连党章条规亦无法厘清或解决的问题,从而影响到年杪党代无法举行的话,他亦不排除中央选举委员会或有可能采取展延有关支部的选举。

中央推翻支部决定 超耀重获竞选资格

【本报美里15日讯】人联党卑尔骚支部选举峰回路转,昨日被判失格的陈超耀,今向中央申诉得直,重获竞选资格,顺利从败部复活!

人联卑尔骚支部改选选举委员会成员包括许聿全、李素霞、陈忻及陈超耀,在选举小组会议结束后,一同召开新闻发布会,向媒体宣布上述消息。 ■

 












美里(卑尔骚)支部选举委员会宣布中央指示,陈超耀申诉得直,重获提名竞选执委及党代资格。支部选举委员许聿全指出,今日的会议中讨论了关于选举相关细节,更重要的是,该小组也于今午3时29分收到人联党中央秘书长沈庆辉以传真方式发出的信函。

他透露,信中简短的指出,“根据陈超耀于11月14日提交的申诉,党中央选举委员会已做出决议,陈超耀所提交的美里(卑尔骚)支部执委及党代提名表格是正当及有效的,应该被支部选举委员会所接受。支部选举委员会依照指示执行上述决定。”
这也意味着,陈超耀的失格风波出现大逆转,重新获得提名资格,将可以顺利参与支部执委及党代竞选。

另两人也上诉得直
随 着陈超耀资格获得平反,昨日因同样因素被判定失格的蔡金忠及詹云洲也重新获得提名资格。由于选举委员会主席陈康南未出席,由选委代理主席陈超耀宣布,由于 昨日的投诉信函是针对自己,而因此连带影响另外2名提名者因相同条件失去资格,经选委会成员讨论后,认定上述2人也应该适用同样理由,恢复其提名资格。因 此,提名者蔡金忠及詹云洲也可以顺利参与本周日的支部选举。

由于昨日的失格风波出现大逆转,所有被判定出局者,重新恢复提名资格,因此,截至目前,卑尔骚支部改选将会有80人竞逐43个支委名额,47人竞争15个党代名额。

选委会成员许聿全指出,上述数字仍未必是最终竞选人数,因为,该支部仍开放提名者自动放弃,不过,该支部选委会决定,限定提名者必须最迟在本周五宣布放弃,否则逾时将不会受理。
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陈超耀心知该担何职

(本报美里15日讯)“我自己心里知道,我应该要做什么职位。”
砂人联党卑尔骚支部署理主席陈超耀今午在卑尔骚支部选举委员会公布重获提名资格后,接受媒体访问时,发表上述谈话。
他说,担任何职则由支部当选执委来决定,但是很确定自己有竞选支部要职的意愿,同时也清楚自己应担任什么职位。

他还说,这是人联党支部首次遇到选举的情况,对许多党员而言也是一种新的经验,希望在本月20日当天,拥有投票资格的党员可以踊跃前来投票,给新人一个机会,让他们可以成立新的领导层,来带领人联党前进。

他表示,人联党在416砂州选举中失去多个州席位,人联党在惨败后更需要党员的支持,才能壮大人联党,同时也能推动人联党的改革计划。

他表示,以上周日珠巴分部的投票率举例,珠巴分部的合格党员有1千594人,但是投票率仅有12.23%,获得的票数为195张,投票率偏低。

“希望在这周日的卑尔骚支部选举中,党员可以踊跃出来投票,卑尔骚支部拥有3千481名符合投票资格的党员,若超过2千名党员来投票,相信可以给新人很大的鼓舞。”

SUPP PUJUT YOUTH SECTION NEWLY ELECTED COMMITTEE 2012-2014

SUPP PUJUT YOUTH COMMITTEE LISTING (2012-2014)

Youth Chairman : Sim Hock Yong
Deputy Youth Chairman : Voon Kai Chee
1st Vice Youth Chairman : Jennifer Hii Ai Mee
2nd Vice Youth Chairman : Ewe Siew Boon
Secretary : Wong Siong Ung
1st Vice Secretary : Lo Kian Phin
2nd Vice Secretary : Lian Sze Sze
Treasurer : Wong Ong Liong
Vice Treasurer : Voo Chiao Ying
Organising : Alex Chu Chin Siang
Vice Organising : Frankie Siwat
Publicity : Leong Siong Yuen
Vice Publicity : Sia Pei Yee
Training : Ng Min Na
Vice Training : Sylvester Ng Chuon Hock
Committee Member
1. Chong Chie Min
2. Hedy Wee Hock Yee
3. Ivy Kong Jeck Vui
4. Ng Sin Na
5. Wee Soon Siang
6. Wee Soon Sieng
7. Wong Siong Bing
8. Wong Sze Chen
9. Yii Ah Voon
10. Yong Pian Hock
11. Yong Seng Chong

Monday 7 November 2011

两派人马呈50提名表 埔奕青团全面开打


(本报美里7日讯)人联党埔奕青年团全面开打,妇女组则风平浪静无战事!

人联埔奕支部青年团选委会负责人俞小珊表示,该支部总共发出50份青年团提名表格。截至今天下午5时,所发出的50份提名表格全数收回。
2份提名表驳问

“经过审核,我们接纳了48份提名表格,当中有两份被驳回。这也是说,埔奕支部青年团将在来临的周日进行投票,选出新届团委。”

“由于埔奕支部青年团团委的人数是26人,他们将在团员大会上投票选出26人担任新届团委。”

此外,埔奕支部妇女组之前共发出19分提名表格。在今天下午5时前,19份提名表格全部呈交到妇女组选委会负责人黄宝贤手中,并全数被接纳。

角逐珠巴分部执委 沈保业挑战派强兵压境


(本报美里7日讯)挑战派强兵压境,提名问鼎人联埔奕支部青年团及珠巴分部理事会。

之前高调表态有意角逐埔奕支部主席的沈保业,今早9时58分时便抵达人联党埔奕支部。由于他的支持者还没到来,沈保业便独自站在一旁等候。

上午10时10分,沈保业支持者陆续到来,他在支持者的陪同下呈交埔奕支部青年团提名表格。

较后时,沈保业在其父亲沈正发和刘玄中的陪同下,呈交珠巴分部执委会提名表格。

据沈保业说,由于他是人联党珠巴分部的党员,根据章程他必须以珠巴分部执委会委员的身份,才可竞选埔奕支部主席。

沈保业发动了17名挑战派党员,角逐人联珠巴分部执委会。然而,以俞小珊为首的当权派将提呈21份提名表格。若提名表格全数被选委会接纳,人联党珠巴分部将在来临的周日(本月13日)投票选出新届执委会。

呈26份提名表格 沈富荣团队阵容大

(本报美里7日讯)获得原任团长陈荣华的祝福,沈富荣今早在数十名青年党员的陪同下﹐呈交埔奕青年团提名表格。

沈富荣表示,他的团队今天将呈交26份青年团提名表格,以凑足青年团团委的总数。

然而以刘玄中为首的埔奕支部青年团挑战派今天也呈交了22份提名表格。这就是说,若所有的提名表格都被接纳,人联党埔奕支部青年团将在周日(本月13日)的埔奕支部青年团大会上,投票选出新届团委。

埔奕支部原任青年团团长陈荣华,今早也呈交了珠巴分部执委会提名表格。预料若当选他将再上一层楼,提名角逐埔奕支部执委会。

沈富荣与支持者今早9时许已抵达人联党埔奕支部,由于今天是公共假期,支部将在上午10时才开门让提名者进入,沈富荣与支持者只得在门外等候。直到上午9时55分,支部副主席黄宝贤前来开门后,众人才陆续进入支部办事处。

Sunday 6 November 2011

Chin: Be alert to possibility of floods, landslides

Posted on November 6, 2011, Sunday

MIRI: Residents of areas prone to floods and landslides were advised to be alert to unusual signs such as sudden earth movements during the yearend rainy season.

Miri MP Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui gave this warning to residents, especially those residing at Canada Hill in Miri, Marudi and Subis.

“Residential areas on Canada Hill are prone to landslides, especially during heavy rain downpour, so residents need to be alert to any unwanted incident and take extra precautions,” he advised.

He said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Muhyiddin Yassin, as chairman for the National Disaster and Relief Committee, had announced flood disaster preparation in view of persistent heavy rains.

“The committee is activating the entire disaster and relief centre throughout the country including Sabah and Sarawak,” he said. Sarawak has a disaster relief centre in most divisions.

“We expect and prepare for the worst in view of the recent floods in Thailand,” he said.

The committee has started alerting every centre to prepare for flooding nationwide.

“The centres have alerted residents in low-lying areas to the possibility of floods and landslides,” Chin said.

Thursday 3 November 2011

CHECKLIST FOR SUPP VOTER 有名才可投票 人联党员须查核名册

Dear SUPP Voter (Miri)

Please check your name for the coming Internal Branch Election accordingly to your branches and for the registration purposes.

Thank You. 


有名才可投票 人联党员须查核名册
北砂新闻

(本报美里2日讯)砂人联党美里5支部党选在即,任何党员可以自行到各自的支部去查核党员名册,一旦名册上查获姓名者才有投票权!

来自美里人联党一名资深的党员披露,如果党员欲查核自己是否有投票权非常简单,他们只需要前往各自的支部查看党员名册,如果名册上有他们的姓名就是有投票权。

换言之,党员名册上若查不到名字,就无权投票。

消息来源说,有关党员名册是人联党中央发给,名册上的党员皆受到党中央的认可,因此有投票权。如果查不到姓名的党员,可以直接向党中央上诉,因为名册是出自党中央,投诉支部也是徒然。

消息说,砂人联党各支部是根据党员入党的资料及名单提呈给党中央,由党中央编排各支部的党员名册。

询及党员若向来没有摊还年捐,是否有权投票的问题。有关资深党员不作正面回应,只告诉媒体,提醒党员自己去支部或分部查核党员名册即可。

CANDIDATE FOR SUPP PUJUT YOUTH CHIEF

Yes! Be United !!! 就是要团结 !!!


BEAUTIFUL QUOTES


“Why should I need blessings from the chief minister or the prime minister? Let the delegates decide whom they want (as their leader). Let the delegates choose my team. Furthermore, I’m not with Umno. SUPP is a component party of the BN. - Datuk Seri Peter Chin

Personally I love this quote very much.  Yep.  Why should we need to relate the SUPP to Prime Minister or Chief Minister.  There was a popular quote during election, We must defends SUPP party , to defend the SUPP means indirectly to defend the 'white hair;  The funny thing is 'white hair' is from the UMNO, it is totally in the different party line. How are you going to defend him through SUPP? think about it LAA....

DATUK SERI PETER CHIN : LET SUPP MEMBERS TO DECIDE WHO TO BE THEIR LEADER

Deal to avoid contest possible

by Geryl Ogilvy Ruekeith. Posted on November 3, 2011, Thursday



HE’S NOT ALONE: Chin (centre), Sim (left) and Teng smiling as they relate the points in the transformation plan to reporters.

KUCHING: SUPP presidential aspirant Datuk Seri Peter Chin said party delegates are the king makers and they should make all the important decisions, including the possibility of a compromise with Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh in the race for the president’s post.

Asked by reporters on a deal to avoid a contest after he had launched ‘SUPP Transformation Plan’ at party headquarters here yesterday, Chin said he had not yet met Wong officially to discuss the possibility of a compromise for the party’s top post.

However, he was quick to state that he was open to such a discussion with the deputy secretary-general if it was in the best interest of the party.

“We are all friends, we can talk anytime. There is still a possibility of a compromise from both sides for the good of the party. If cooperation is the best option, why not?

“However, it is still up to the delegates. I, on the other hand, welcome anyone who wants to cooperate in the best interest of SUPP,” said Chin, who is the party’s organising secretary

Chin, who is also Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister, is in a tussle with Wong, who is also Second Finance Minister and Minister of Local Government and Community Development, for the party’s top post.

Party president Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan will be stepping down during the Triennial Delegates Conference (TDC), which is scheduled to be held here on Dec 9 -11, following his defeat in Piasau in the April 16 state polls.

Chin explained that his reason for not naming his team to take on Wong was because he wanted the delegates to exercise their rights for the good of the party. He stressed that he preferred to work with those who were voted “through the wisdom of party delegates”.

“Why should I name my team? Let the delegates choose their preferred leader. To cast me as a lone ranger is wrong because at the end of the day whoever I choose as office-bearers now is irrelevant because it is the delegates and the central working committee (CWC) who would be casting the votes.

“The delegates are the ones who would be voting while the CWC elect the office-bearers because, in their wisdom, they know who is suitable for what position. Therefore, I do not want to create a team because this would force the delegates to choose,” said Chin.

He added that having a team also had its disadvantage because there was always that possibility that some delegates might not like some of the team members.

When asked to comment on a rumour that he already had a “shadow line-up” which was influenced by political ‘higher power’, Chin refuted the claim.

“Nobody (political big wigs) influences me to contest. My influence was from the people who came to advise me that I should serve as an alternative for the delegates during the TDC.

“I do not need blessings from either the Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud or Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to contest for the president’s post.

“Why should I need blessings from the chief minister or the prime minister? Let the delegates decide whom they want (as their leader). Let the delegates choose my team. Furthermore, I’m not with Umno. SUPP is a component party of the BN,” he replied.

Chin revealed that one of his greatest fears was seeing SUPP disappearing into political oblivion.

“My heart bled when all our comrades in Kuching lost during the April state polls,” he said.


POLITICIANS ARE NO LONGER THE MASTERS BUT SERVANTS OF THE RAKYAT

Sit up and take note
NORTH VIEW by STEPHEN THEN


If politicians do not perform, they will be booted out by the same folk who voted them in. Period.

IT HAS been a very interesting week in Miri, where politicians from both sides of the political divide admitted that, in urban Sarawak, the term “political master” is no longer relevant.

This must be replaced with the more appropiate “political servant”.

There is now a realisation among Barisan Nasional and the Opposition that they can no longer expect the rakyat to look up to them and think of them as the “political master”, a term popularly used by the British colonialists.

Ordinary folk during those times had to bow to the orang putih and call them tuan.

That practice was passed down after independence, and widely used before the turn of the millennium.

Last Sunday, I had an interesting conversation with SUPP president and former Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan.

I also attended a dialogue between DAP, PKR and PAS.

Dr Chan had pulled me aside on Sunday night after I met him during a function and he said: “I heard you were threatened (by certain people) over what you wrote in your column.

“How can these people behave like that? I for one, will not encourage such tactics in SUPP.

“Politicians must realise that this sort of tactics do not work anymore. This sort of high-handed political culture is no longer relevant today.

“Politicians, and those aspiring to be politicians, cannot behave as if they are the masters of the rakyat anymore.

“We politicians are no longer the masters, we are the servants of the rakyat.

“The rakyat and the voters are not beholden to us, we are beholden to them.

“Don’t you ever allow yourself to be cowed by threats,” he went on.

Dr Chan discussed the latest political happenings in his party, and in the state and country, and said politicians could not talk down to ordinary folk anymore because the people who voted them in were the ones in charge, not the other way around.

“The sooner politicians realise this, the better.”

Dr Chan said the days of the people bowing to politicians were effectively over.

“Politicians now need to meet the aspiration of the rakyat. They are expected to solve the problems the rakyat bring to them.

“The office they hold is no longer a privileged position.

“Politicians hold office as the servants of the people. The people elect the politicians, thus the politicians are the servants,” he stressed.

He said SUPP politicians must concede to this new political reality in urban Sarawak if they wanted to last long in the public arena.

Interestingly, the Opposition also said the same thing.

Several leaders held a gathering with community representatives to discuss latest issues in society.

Piasau assemblyman Ling Sie Kiong discussed how he had a difficult time trying to meet the demands from the people in his constituency.

He said the people had bombarded him with all kinds of demands, asking him for cash handouts, squatter relocation land lots, electricity connections and even beer!

The people whom he met during his ground visits bluntly asked him what he could do for them and what he could give them.

“They don’t care whether I’m from DAP, they want to know what I could do for them.

“They have a lot of problems they want resolved. There are four big kampungs and squatter colonies in my constituency.

“Over the past few months, I have visited every house and every family I met asked how I could solve the problems they raised to me.

“We politicians have to sit down at the same level as the people and stand with them at the same level also,” he stressed.

Ling said DAP had always held the belief that the rakyat who voted them in were also the ones with the power to boot them out.

“So what if we become a wakil rakyat. If we cannot solve the people’s problems, they will boot us out.

“They give us five years (per term) to show our capability. If they are not happy with us, the same people who voted us in will vote us out.”

Indeed, Ling, 29, has learnt the new political realities very swiftly.

It was only a few months ago in April this year that he defeated Dr Chan in Piasau.

He is learning how tough it is to be a politician.

To his credit, he is not relaxing or sleeping on the job. He has been going around his constituency, meeting the people and looking into their needs.

It is of course, left to be seen how effectively he can resolve the people’s woes.

In Piasau, there are numerous long-standing land woes affecting thousands of squatters, bad drainage, increasing traffic congestions and the likes.

It is good to note that despite being labelled a giant-killer during the polls, Ling has not been carried away by pride or arrogance.

He has been very down-to-earth and humble, and has placed service to the people as his top priority.

Aspiring politicians, no matter from which political party, must understand this maturing mentality among urban Sarawakians that the people do not automatically accord respect and recognition to politicians anymore.

Politicians are expected to prove their worth, not demand for it as if it is due to them on a platter.

This realisation may have come reluctantly and perhaps even grudgingly, but nonetheless politicians are admitting to this.

The rakyat and the voters in urban Sarawak have matured. They are the masters now, not the politicians.

The political office is no longer a privileged platform where one can lord over the rakyat. It is an office where one has to serve the people and solve their problems.

If they fail to do that, the rakyat will boot them out. The political office belongs to the rakyat. It is not the property of the politician sitting in the office.

That is the stark reality. So politicians and aspiring politicians better take note — you are not the master anymore.