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Anak Melayu, Mohd Fahmi Aliman, Dinaikkan Pangkat, Kini Jadi Kolonel

Seorang askar Melayu Mohd Fahmi Aliman, dinaikkan pangkat menjadi seorang Kolonel (COL) bermula esok (1 Jul). Beliau yang kini berpangkat Leftenan Kolonel Kanan (SLTC), merupakan Komander bagi Pusat Penilaian Latihan Tentera (ATEC).

Kenaikan pangkat beliau itu didedahkan dalam Majlis Kenaikan Pangkat Mindef/SAF hari ini.

Ini juga bermakna, mulai esok SAF mempunyai dua pegawai Melayu sepenuh masa yang berpangkat Kolonel, iaitu pegawai Melayu tertinggi dalam angkatan tentera yang sedang bertugas. Sekaligus ada sekurang-kurangnya dua pegawai Melayu SAF sepenuh masa sekarang, yang berpotensi menjadi Jeneral pada masa depan.

Seorang lagi Kolonel ialah COL Zakir Hamid dari Angkatan Udara Singapura (RSAF) yang mendapat pangkat tersebut tahun lalu.

COL Zakir kini seorang Komander bagi Kumpulan Pengangkutan RSAF.

Di majlis kenaikan pangkat petang tadi, seorang pegawai waran iaitu 1WO Ahmad Ali, dinaikkan pangkat kepada Pegawai Waran Master (MWO).

COL MOHD FAHMI ALIMAN

COL Mohd Fahmi tiada di majlis kenaikan pangkat yang diadakan di Kementerian Pertahanan (Mindef) petang tadi kerana sedang menjalani latihan di luar negara.

Dalam wawancara menerusi telefon, beliau yang berusia 43 tahun berkata, beliau mula menjadi Komander ATEC sejak tahun lalu.

Tugas beliau ialah melaksanakan penilaian yang realistik dan mencabar untuk semua unit-unit SAF.

Beliau kini juga memegang jawatan sebagai seorang Komander Briged Infantri, dan sudah bertugas dalam SAF selama 24 tahun.

Ditanya komen beliau mengenai kenaikan pangkatnya, COL Fahmi berkata ini suatu penghormatan dan kebanggaan kepada beliau dan keluarganya.

Ini juga beliau anggap sebagai cerminan sejauh mana SAF percaya kepada sumbangan beliau, dan memberi amanah untuk beliau membantu membangunkan SAF.

COL Fahmi berkata: “Yang lebih penting adalah untuk pertahanan Singapura, setiap kita mempunyai tanggungjawab kita sendiri, sama ada kita dalam pasukan keselamatan atau kita seorang kakitangan awam, semua ada tanggungjawab sendiri. Itu pada saya amat penting. Itu yang menjadikan satu motivasi untuk saya terus bekerja lebih gigih lagi dalam SAF.”

Kini dengan pangkat Kolonel, beliau berkata pengaruhnya akan lebih besar lagi, untuk menaikkan mutu sumbangannya.

COL Fahmi berazam untuk terus memberikan yang terbaik untuk SAF. Beliau malah berikrar menyumbang demi “menaikkan taraf SAF di dunia”.

BUKAN UNTUK DAPAT DUIT LEBIH ATAU GLAMOUR

Sebagai seorang ayah, beliau mempunyai empat orang anak berusia antara 6 hingga 19 tahun, manakala isterinya bekerja sebagai seorang guru sekolah menengah.

Walaupun sentiasa dihantui kesibukan, COL Fahmi berkata keluarga beliau memberi segenap sokongan.

COL Fahmi menasihatkan anak-anak Melayu yang berminat dengan kerjaya tentera supaya ada komitmen yang tinggi, minat yang tinggi dan cita-cita yang tinggi untuk cemerlang dalam bidang ketenteraan.

Ini tegas beliau suatu kerjaya yang diceburi “bukan untuk dapat duit lebih atau glamour”.

Beliau turut melahirkan rasa positif bahawa pada masa depan “kita akan ada lebih ramai anak muda Melayu berpendidikan dan berwawasan dalam angkatan tentera”.

Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

July 1, 2016
Public Car Park Charges To Increase From December

Starting from December, it will be more expensive to park at public car parks in Singapore, with rates for short-term and season parking to rise.

The new rates were announced in a press release issued by Housing and Development Board (HDB) and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Thursday (Jun 30).

For public car parks outside of the restricted zone or outside designated areas close to the restricted zone, the parking charge will be raised by S$0.10 from S$0.50 to S$0.60 per half-hour. This applies to most residential areas in Singapore.

For public car parks within the restricted zone or within designated areas close to the restricted zone, the parking charge will increase by S$0.20 from S$1 to S$1.20 per half hour.

Season parking rates in HDB car parks will be raised as well. Season parking for the first car will increase by S$15 for surface car parks from S$65 to S$80 per month, and S$20 for sheltered car parks from S$90 to S$110 per month.

For non-residents buying a season parking pass or residents getting season parking for a second and subsequent parking lot, the rate will increase by S$25 for surface car parks to S$90 per month and by S$30 for sheltered car parks to S$120 per month.

There will be no revision to the parking charges for motorcycles as they were revised when per-minute charging and Concessionary Season Parking Ticket for motorcycles were introduced in July 2014 and January 2015, respectively, HDB and URA said.

From Dec 1, 2016, motorists using public car parks will have to use new coupons with the revised rates. The new coupons will be available for sale at HDB Branches/Service Centres, the URA Centre and coupon agents (e.g. all petrol stations, 7-11 outlets etc) from early October 2016.

Motorists can exchange their unused old parking coupons for new ones from early October 2016 onwards, by topping up the difference in value.

The last islandwide revision of car parking charges by HDB and URA was done 14 years ago in 2002, HDB and URA said.

“Over this period, the costs of building, operating and managing car parks have increased due to general inflation, as well as construction, manpower and other related maintenance costs. Car park charges have not kept pace with these cost increases. Therefore revisions are needed to ensure proper cost recovery,” the agencies said.

Source: ChannelNewsAsia

June 30, 2016
Damanhuri Abas: A United Malay Community Will Bring Out The Best In The Community Itself

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. A blessed gathering in a blessed month during the most blessed period on the night of the last 3rd of the month of Ramadan.

A simple graceful event bringing cross party representatives of the Malay community exploring collaboration and synergy to offer alternative and complementing approaches in addressing economic, educational and social challenges faced by the Malay community in Singapore. A pledge of commitment to serve the interest of the Malay community and celebrate the community’s strength in full cognizant of a multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious Singapore. So much potential and opportunity when we focus on what unify us and our inherent strength within, rather than adopt a partisan antagonistic attitude.

The Malay community today is blessed with many capable and talented groups and individuals from all strata of the community and the wider society eager to come forward to contribute towards the growth and prosperity of the community. Several have already begun and made amazing contributions and sacrifices to help the vulnerable and lesser off in the community.

A vision of a strong and vibrant Malay community with deep rootedness to our culture and history yet progressive, embracing the diverse talents from all segments of the community from the Professionals, the Small businesses, to the Youth, the people in Arts and all ranks and file of the community. Harnessing the best within to produce the best the community can offer itself and the wider Singapore society. Majulah Singapura untuk Semua.

Source: Damanhuri bin Abas

June 30, 2016
MOH Pantau Kes Salmonella Yang Meningkat, Lebih 1,000 Kes Dilapor

Apabila Cik Chia mula mengalami sakit perut, beliau menyangka ia tidak serius. Beliau memakan ubat penghilang kesakitan, dan berfikir rasa sakitnya itu akan hilang.

Bagaimanapun, beliau muntah sebanyak dua kali dan mengalami cirit birit sehingga 10 kali sehari.

“Saya tidak tahu apa yang saya makan, kerana Singapura amat bersih dan saya hanya makan makanan biasa seperti di pusat penjaja, dan saya langsung tidak ke luar negara,” katanya.

Cik Chia dimasukkan ke hospital keesokan harinya dan disahkan dijangkiti gastroenteritis salmonella atau radang perut dan usus salmonella pada 8 Mei.

Keadaan beliau itu disebabkan oleh patogen yang dibawa oleh makanan yang boleh menyebabkan cirit birit, muntah-muntah, sakit perut dan demam.

Cik Chia antara 1,042 orang yang dijangkiti salmonella sejauh ini pada 2016. Menurut maklumat yang dikeluarkan Kementerian Kesihatan (MOH) di lamannya, bilangan orang yang dijangkiti meningkat saban tahun.

Sejak 2012, jumlah kes meningkat sekitar 30 peratus kepada sekitar 2,000 pada 2015. Trend ini nampaknya akan berterusan, dengan jumlah kes yang dilaporkan pada 2016 melebihi 779 sejauh ini berbanding jumlah kes yang dilaporkan antara Januari hingga 20 Jun tahun lalu.

Dalam kenyataan kepada Mediacorp, jurucakap MOH berkata salmonellosis yang dijangkiti manusia biasanya ada kaitan dengan makan daging ayam itik, daging dan telur yang tercemar.

Jurucakap itu menambah bahawa MOH sedang bekerja rapat dengan Penguasa Pertanian Makanan dan Ternakan (AVA) dan Agensi Sekitaran Kebangsaan (NEA) untuk memantau situasi dan memahami lebih baik sebab mengapa kes itu meningkat.

BAGAIMANA SALMONELLA DIRAWAT?

Dr Desmond Wai, pakar gastroenterologi di Hospital Mount Elizabeth Novena, berkata bakteria itu tidak dibawa oleh udara namun menarik perhatian ia boleh menular menerusi najis dan oral.

“Pesakit yang dijangkiti salmonella akan mempunyai bakteria pada najis mereka. Jadi jika mereka tidak membasuh tangan betul-betul, menyentuh objek lain, menyiapkan makanan untuk orang lain, mereka boleh menyebabkan jangkitan menular kepada orang lain,” kata Dr Wai.

Beliau menambah bahawa salmonella boleh terdapat pada daging mentah ayam itik dan telur, dan boleh menular menerusi perhubungan sesama manusia.

“Salmonella terutamanya boleh masuk ke ovari ayam. Jadi dalam kuning telur itu, mungkin ada bakterianya. Mereka yang makan telur separuh masak atau telur mentah boleh dijangkiti,” kata Dr Wai.

“Jika anda membasuh ayam yang mengandungi salmonella, tangan kita atau air yang disimbah pada sink mungkin mengandungi bakteria,” jelasnya.

Di Singapura, AVA menjalankan pemeriksaan secara kerap untuk memastikan makanan yang diimport bebas daripada jangkitan. Produk-produk juga mesti mematuhi piawai dan peraturan keselamatan makanan tempatan, kata jurucakap AVA kepada Mediacorp.

“Ujian-ujian sampel kami meliputi pelbagai bahan cemar dan bahan mikrobiologi yang mendatangkan bahaya seperti antibiotik dan hormon serta bahan mikrob yang berbahaya seperti Salmonella,” kata jurucakap itu, sambil menambah produk-produk yang tercemar tidak dibenarkan dijual dan akan dimusnahkan.

Meskipun Pemerintah mengambil langkah berhati-hati untuk mengelak makanan tercemar dari diimport ke Singapura, orang ramai juga harus memainkan peranan seperti menerapkan amalan kebersihan yang baik, seperti membasuh tangan dengan air dan sabun sebelum makan, kata Dr Wai.

Bagi Cik Chia, yang masih beransur pulih dari jangkitan salmonella, beliau kini menumpukan lebih banyak perhatian kepada amalan kebersihan.

“Selain membasuh tangan dengan sabun dengan lebih kerap, saya juga menggunakan bahan cuci tangan untuk pakar bedah sebelum makan,” ujarnya.

Source: Berita MediaCorp

June 30, 2016
Man Gets Five Weeks’ Jail For Verbally Abusing SCDF Officers

Rushing down to 116 Ho Ching Road to respond to a call for assistance, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers arrived to find two men, one of whom was sitting on a stone chair and complaining of pain in his leg.

The man in pain, Mr Santharasagara Channagan, had asked if he could be conveyed to hospital together with his wheelchair. But when the SCDF officers informed him that the ambulance could not carry wheelchairs safely, his friend, Govindasami, flared up and hurled abusive words at all three of them — an act that landed the 55-year-old five weeks in jail on Wednesday (June 29).

The incident took place on May 27 this year, at around 8.45pm.

Govindasami, who goes by one name, had called the SCDF for help, and had sat nearby drinking rice wine as they attended to his friend.

But upon hearing that the ambulance could not take the wheelchair, he interrupted the conversation and was visibly unhappy. He scolded the trio in a mix of English, Malay and Hokkien vulgarities, and they decided to call the police.

When the police arrived around 9pm, Staff Sergeant Lye Jiawei started interviewing Govindasami. “(He) started to turn aggressive and pushed (SS Lye’s) hand away,” said Deputy Public Prosecutor Kong Kuek Foo.

The police officer then placed Govindasami under arrest and brought him to Jurong Division Headquarters. Along the way, Govindasami continued to swear repeatedly at the officer.

He faced five charges of verbally abusing a public servant under the Protection from Harassment Act, but only two were proceeded with.

DPP Kong pointed out that Govindasami had a colourful history of disorderly behaviour, mischief and theft in dwelling, dating back to three decades ago. In 2010, he was charged with spewing threatening or abusive words at a public servant, and in 2013, he was charged with hurting a public servant to deter him or her from duty.

Appearing in court unrepresented, Govindasami pleaded for the minimum sentence. Speaking through a translator, he told District Judge Jasvender Kaur that he was taking medication for alcoholism and voices in his head.

“I wish to be sent to a halfway house after my sentence, to withdraw from the alcohol addiction,” he said.

The judge said that she would call for a Community Court Conference to be held to assess if a halfway house was appropriate for him, after the prison term has been served.

Source: TODAY Online

June 30, 2016