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  • Bekas Pengurus Majlis Pusat, Gazaly Malek, Dipenjara 20 Minggu Kerana Menipu

    Bekas Pengurus Majlis Pusat, Gazaly Malek, Dipenjara 20 Minggu Kerana Menipu

    BEKAS pengurus Majlis Pusat (MP), Gazaly Malek, semalam dijatuhi hukuman penjara 20 minggu atas tiga pertuduhan menipu tiga badan berkanun hampir $190,000 berhubung perbelanjaan bagi acara penyalaan lampu Hari Raya.

    Gazaly, 60 tahun, telah mengaku bersalah pada minggu lalu bersubahat dengan tiga individu lain menipu agensi pemerintah bagi projek penyalaan lampu Hari Raya Geylang Serai pada 2011 dan 2012.

    Tiga individu itu ialah bekas presiden MP, Saharudin Kassim; bekas setiausaha kewangan, Abdul Ghani Tahir; dan seorang vendor, Salleh Sam, yang mengendalikan projek itu.

    Sebelum menjatuhkan hukuman, Hakim Daerah Encik Adam Nakhoda berkata walaupun Gazaly bukan dalangnya, beliau mendapati tertuduh menyedari apa yang dilakukannya itu menyalahi undang-undang.

    Dia hanya mengikut arahan Saharudin.

    Hakim turut mempertimbang faktor mitigasi lain dalam kes itu termasuk Gazaly tidak mendapat manfaat daripada konspirasi itu; tiada rekod jenayah; kerjasama yang diberi kepada Jabatan Ehwal Perniagaan (CAD) dalam siasatan dan dia awal mengaku bersalah.

    Namun, hakim menambah bahawa Gazaly sedar perbuatannya salah dan apabila disuruh melakukan perbuatan itu, dia “harus menghentikannya dengan segera”.

    Peguam Gazaly, Encik Amarjit Singh, meminta hukuman ditangguh dua minggu. Permintaan itu tidak dibangkang pihak pendakwa dan dipersetujui oleh hakim.

    Gazaly akan menjalani hukuman penjara mulai 23 Mei.

    Ketika diminta anak guamnya mengulas tentang hukuman itu, Encik Singh berkata Gazaly mendapati ia adil.

    “Melihat keadaan keseluruhannya, Gazaly rasa hukuman itu adil kerana dia tahu apa yang sedang berlaku – bahawa jumlah perbelanjaan invois itu dinaikkan. Dan hukuman yang dijatuhkan adalah lingkungan yang dijangkakan,” kata Encik Amarjit.

    Beliau berkata penangguhan itu diminta kerana anak guamnya perlu menyelesaikan perkara peribadi.

    “Dia masih menjaga ibunya dan harus membuat rancangan bagi penjagaannya sementara dia menjalani hukuman,” kata Encik Amarjit.

    Gazaly, seorang warga Canada, kembali ke Singapura enam tahun lalu kerana ingin meluangkan masa bersama ibunya yang berusia 86 tahun dan anggota keluarganya yang sakit teruk.

    Disebabkan niatnya itu Gazaly menerima tawaran pekerjaan sebagai pengurus program di Majlis Pusat.

    Di Majlis Pusat, dia bekerja di bawah arahan setiausaha agung MP ketika itu iaitu Saharudin.

     

    Source: www.beritaharian.sg

  • DPPMS Lancarkan ‘Kelompok Runcit’ Untuk Peruncit Bina Rangkaian

    DPPMS Lancarkan ‘Kelompok Runcit’ Untuk Peruncit Bina Rangkaian

    Di tengah-tengah pasaran runcit yang suram ekoran ketidaktentuan ekonomi, pasaran fesyen muslimah masih terus berkembang.

    Malah, dianggarkan mencecah $320 bilion pada 2018.

    Di Pesta Fesyen Muslimah anjuran DEWI@DPPMS, Menteri Sekitaran dan Sumber Air, Encik Masagos Zulkifli menganjurkan agar para peniaga tempatan berani keluar daripada kepompong keselesaan dan meneroka peluang pasaran di peringkat antarabangsa.

    Encik Masagos turut menyanjung usaha DEWI@DPPMS yang memainkan peranan menggalak sifat keusahawanan di kalangan wanita.

    Malah, sejak ditubuhkan ia mendampingi lebih 300 usahawan wanita.

    Pesta Fesyen Muslimah kali keempat ini juga dialu-alukan para pereka dan peniaga fesyen tempatan seperti Butik Zen Aura, Mod Kebaya dan banyak lagi.

    Sempena menyambut ulang tahun DPPMS ke-60, ia turut melancarkan kelompok terbarunya iaitu Kelompok Runcit.

    Ia diharapkan dapat menjadi wadah untuk para peruncit membina rangkaian dan memanfaatkan perkongsian sumber serta maklumat dalam mengharungi persekitaran ekonomi yang mencabar.

    “Mereka harus meluaskan lagi barangan mereka, bagaimana mengaplikasikan kemahiran mereka pada dunia fesyen secara luas supaya ia bukan hanya diguna atau digemari oleh orang-orang Islam sahaja tetapi juga untuk masyarakat lebih luas,” jelas Encik Masagos.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Asks US Not To Use ‘Rohingya’

    Aung San Suu Kyi Asks US Not To Use ‘Rohingya’

    Myanmar recognizes 135 ethnic groups within its borders. But the people who constitute No. 136? They are the-people-who-must-not-be-named.

    Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s first democratically elected government since 1962, embraced that view last week when she advised the US ambassador against using the term “Rohingya” to describe the persecuted Muslim population that has lived in Myanmar for generations.

    Her government, like the previous military-led one, will not call the Rohingya people by that name because it does not recognize them as citizens, said her spokesman, Mr U Kyaw Zay Ya, a Foreign Ministry official.

    “We won’t use the term Rohingya because Rohingya are not recognized as among the 135 official ethnic groups,” said Kyaw Zay Ya, who was at the meeting. “Our position is that using the controversial term does not support the national reconciliation process and solving problems.”

    The stance does not bode well for the Rohingya or for rights activists who had hoped that Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, would reverse discriminatory policies that have marginalized the Rohingya and prompted many to flee.

    “She is not saying anything about the Rohingya people in Myanmar and their rights to religion and education and health care,” said Aung Win, a Rohingya community leader in Rakhine state. “As a Nobel Peace Prize winner, why is she so silent?”

    The US Embassy confirmed that the newly arrived ambassador, Scot A Marciel, had met with Ms Suu Kyi but would not comment on their discussions.

    Her position on the name has taken on great significance as her party, the National League for Democracy, establishes the country’s first nonmilitary government in decades. Barred by the military-drafted constitution from serving as president, she holds the posts of state counselor and foreign minister, among others, but she is the country’s de facto leader. The new government took over in March.

    The Rohingya in Myanmar, Muslims in a primarily Buddhist land, are denied basic rights, including citizenship, freedom of worship, education, marriage and freedom of travel. More than 100,000 who were driven from their homes by violence in 2012 are in resettlement camps. Many fled on dangerous sea voyages.

    Many nationalist Buddhists reject the name Rohingya and call them Bengalis, implying that they are interlopers from Bangladesh, a position also taken by the former military government.

    The US Embassy recently drew criticism for using the word Rohingya in a statement expressing condolences for the deaths of at least 20 people whose boat capsized on April 19 off the coast of Rakhine.

    Nationalist Buddhists challenged the new Myanmar government to protest the Americans’ use of the word and staged a demonstration outside the United States Embassy in Yangon.

    At an April 28 news conference, Marciel responded by saying that it was standard practice around the world to let communities decide for themselves what to be called.

    “And normally, when that happens, we would call them what they want to be called,” he said. “It’s not a political decision; it’s just a normal practice.”

    Suu Kyi’s decision to raise the issue with Marciel the next day was an apparent concession to the extremists and was welcomed by the nationalist Association for the Protection of Race and Religion, also known as Ma Ba Tha.

    “We don’t want that word because they are not our nationality,” said Thaw Bar Ka, a leader of the group. “And now I read the news that the Foreign Ministry agrees with us. It’s really good. At first, I thought the new government would be useless on this issue.”

    Rights advocates expressed disappointment that Ms Suu Kyi was not willing to go against popular opinion and support a dispossessed people.

    “It’s dismaying that the new NLD-led government is continuing this wrongheaded effort to police the language of Yangon-based diplomats about the Rohingya,” said Mr Phil Robertson, deputy director for Asia at Human Rights Watch.

    Mr Kyaw Zay Ya said Suu Kyi had not ordered the Americans to stop using the word or threatened consequences if they did.

     

    Source: TODAY Online

  • Walid J. Abdullah: Murali’s Win Illustrates That Sinicization Important Pre-Requisite For Winning

    Walid J. Abdullah: Murali’s Win Illustrates That Sinicization Important Pre-Requisite For Winning

    I have seen opposition supporters trying to put a positive spin on the by-election.

    Honestly, whichever way you look at it, it was quite a disaster (but not an unexpected one) for the SDP and Dr Chee. This was a by-election, not a general election, so there was a greater chance for him. He was up against a minority candidate. And it was an SMC.

    If he could not get more than 40% of the votes considering these factors, honestly, he’d probably find it hard to win in any other contest.

    Perhaps then it is time for Dr Chee Soon Juan to consider stepping down. He can help build the SDP, but maybe, his time with regards to contesting elections should be up.

    Of course, it is easy for me to say all these. I am not the one who has fought my entire life against all odds, just for what i believe in. So i may not feel the need to hold on as much as him.

    As for our friend Ah Mu, congratulations are due. But more than that: scrutiny should also be applied. His attendance record in Parliament, the amount of time he spends in his constituency (visiting homes just during election period is not ‘walking the ground’), the promises he made during hustings: all these should be looked at closely by Bukit Batok residents and Singaporeans in general.

    And a word on race: Ah Mu, it is hard enough for minorities as it is, so when someone who is as successful as you feels a need to be known via a Chinese name, it really does tell the rest of us that perhaps, being sinicized is a prerequisite for success. So please, Ah Mu and future minority candidates, bear this in mind.

    I want to say that elections should henceforth be based on contests of ideas, and not personal attacks, but Singaporeans have shown that personal attacks are rewarded. So my point on this would be moot.

     

    Source: Walid J. Abdullah

  • Heartbreaking Decision To Take Braindead Fiance Off Life Support

    Heartbreaking Decision To Take Braindead Fiance Off Life Support

    They were to be married today.

    But instead of having cherished memories of her big day, Miss Khairunnisa Illyasha is left to reflect on what might have been – and to wonder about the circumstances in which her beloved was so cruelly taken away from her just days earlier.

    Her fiance, Mr Noor Helmee Roslan, a 23-year-old Malaysian working in Singapore, suffered severe head injuries in an accident on the Seletar Expressway (SLE) last Friday.

    A day later, Miss Khairunnisa, also a 23-year-old Malaysian, had the heart-shattering experience of seeing him being taken off life support and then laid to rest.

    After The New Paper tracked Miss Khairunnisa down, she said in a phone interview from her family home in Johor Baru (JB): “I cannot believe that the love of my life was robbed from me mere days before the wedding. He is irreplaceable.”

    Her first clue that something had gone very wrong was when one of Mr Helmee’s colleagues, whom she had never met, went looking for her at her mother’s food stall in JB at 5am that day.

    He had photographs of Mr Helmee’s accident.

    In between audible sobs, Miss Khairunnisa said: “Helmee would always message me once he reaches his workplace in Singapore – normally at about 4.30am. I waited and waited that morning, but there was no message from him.”

    Mr Helmee, a bus driver with SBS Transit, lived in JB and was riding his motorcycle to work on the SLE when a car hit his bike from behind at about 3.40am, flinging him onto the road.

    With little inkling how the collision had occurred, Miss Khairunnisa went to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, accompanied by a friend, and was told that her fiance was unconscious in its intensive care unit (ICU).

    “I was shocked when the receptionist told me that he was in the ICU. When I saw the pictures, I didn’t think the accident was that bad,” she said.

    Miss Khairunnisa was then told that Mr Helmee had been taken to the operating theatre.

    “I just sat outside and broke down, I was really afraid to lose my fiance,” she said.

    Four hours later, she was finally allowed to see Mr Helmee.

    SPEECHLESS

    “I was speechless when I saw him. He was all wired up and his face was so swollen I could hardly recognise him.”

    Doctors warned her that Mr Helmee’s chances of waking up were slim and that even then, he might have suffered full memory loss.

    Clinging to hope, Miss Khairunnisa, Mr Helmee’s mother and his sister, 22, remained outside the ICU in case he woke up.

    “I kept thinking about things I could do to refresh his memory. I thought of pictures that I could show him to remind him of our love when he woke up,” she said.

    That moment never arrived.

    They had met through her younger sister and were five days from their second anniversary of being together when the accident happened.

    “We dreamed of having a big family. He wanted to have many sons, enough to form a soccer club.”

    Hours later, doctors informed her and his family that he was brain dead.

    “My mind went blank in that instant. I had been focusing on the possibility of him waking up. I would cry every time we spoke to doctors as it was never good news,” she said.

    That night, Mr Helmee’s family decided to take him off life support so as not to prolong his suffering.

    “I told his mother that the choice of whether to take him off life support is all hers and I’d respect her decision,” said Miss Khairunnisa, choking back tears.

    “Hearing the long, dreadful beep of the heart monitor was the most difficult moment of my life.”

    Mr Helmee’s body was taken back to JB and buried on Sunday.

    Since then, Miss Khairunnisa has had to deal with the cancellation of their wedding and planned honeymoon. But she could not bear to call the 500 invited guests with the bad news and asked her mother to help her with that.

    Miss Khairunnisa said she will eventually donate his bridal gifts to her – a watch, a pair of shoes and a prayer mat – to charity, but for now, they give her some solace.

    She said: “Helmee was honest, loyal and compassionate. His last words to me, the day before the accident, were that I was his last love, and he could never love somebody else.”

    About the case

    Mr Noor Helmee Roslan, 23, was on his way to work when his motorcycle was involved in an accident with a car.

    The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the accident on the Seletar Expressway at 3.40am last Friday.

    Mr Helmee, a bus driver with SBS Transit, shuttles between Johor Baru and Singapore for work, and the journey takes an hour each way.

    The rear tyre of his motorcycle was stuck under the car after the collision and he was flung onto the road, reported Lianhe Wanbao.

    Mr Helmee’s body was covered in blood and he had severe head injuries. He was conscious when an ambulance took him to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, said SCDF.

    Police investigations are ongoing.

    His fiancee, Miss Khairunnisa Illyasha, 23, told The New Paper that she has no idea how the collision that killed Mr Helmee could have happened.

    She is hoping that witnesses will come forward.

    “I just want to find out what happened. There is an empty hole in my heart now because we did everything together, including shopping for groceries,” she said, choking back her tears.

    Anyone with information can call the police hotline on 1800-255-0000.

    His sister’s wedding supposed to be in 2 weeks

    Mr Noor Helmee Roslan and his colleague would have been brothers-in-law had he not died after the accident.

    The colleague, who wanted to be known only as Mr Arif, told The New Paper that he was supposed to marry Mr Helmee’s sister two weeks after Mr Helmee and Miss Khairunnisa Illyasha’s wedding.

    He said: “My fiancee had insisted that we get married after her brother, none of us expected any of this to happen.

    “Helmee’s family is still in shock. Our families are not discussing our wedding for the time being.”

    “I lost a good friend and a future brother-in-law, but my grief is nothing compared to his family’s. I just want to do my part and be there for them.”

    Ms Tammy Tan, the senior vice- president of corporate communications at SBS Transit, said that the company is “deeply saddened” by the death.

    She said: “In the one year that he was with us, we have known him as a happy and joyful individual, who got on well with his colleagues.

    “He was a good bus captain and we will miss him. We have extended our deepest condolences to his family and are rendering assistance as best we can.”

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