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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

  • Dr Chee Belum Sedia Undur Diri Dari Politik

    Dr Chee Belum Sedia Undur Diri Dari Politik

    Calon SDP yang juga Setiausaha Agung parti itu, Dr Chee Soon Juan bergiat aktif dalam politik hampir suku abad lamanya.

    Pencalonannya dalam pilihan raya kecil Bukit Batok menandakan kali kelima Dr Chee bertanding untuk memasuki parlimen.

    Sekitar 25 tahun selepas bertanding di Marine Parade – Dr Chee Soon Juan menjadi tokoh terkenal tetapi berkontroversi dalam arena politik Singapura.

    Dr Chee menyertai SDP pada 1992 dan diperkenalkan pengasas parti Chiam See Tong sebagai calon pilihan bagi pilihan raya kecil di Marine Parade.

    PAP bagaimanapun memenangi pilihan raya tersebut dengan 73 peratus undi.

    KERJAYA POLITIK DIPENUHI KONTROVERSI

    Pada 1997, Dr Chee mengambil alih kepimpinan parti kira-kira setahun selepas Encik Chiam meninggalkan parti menyusuli pertikaian dengan Dr Chee dan para anggota SDP yang lain.

    Ada laporan menyatakan Dr Chee menyingkirkan Encik Chiam tetapi itu dinafikan Dr Chee.

    Pada 1997 dan 2001, SDP kalah di MacPherson dan Jurong. Kerjaya politik Dr Chee dipenuhi kontroversi. Dr Chee dipecat dari Universiti Nasional Singapura pada 1993 kerana dituduh menyalahgunakan dana kajian. Tetapi Dr Chee menafikan tuduhan tersebut.

    Dr Chee pernah mengadakan beberapa bantahan awam. Dia juga pernah disaman di mahkamah oleh mendiang Encik Lee Kuan Yew dan Encik Goh Chok Tong berhubung beberapa kenyataan yang dibuat dalam kempen pilihan raya 2001.

    Dr Chee kemudian diisytiharkan muflis selepas gagal membayar ganti rugi.

    Akibatnya Dr Chee tidak layak bertanding dalam dua pilihan raya pada 2006 dan 2011.

    2012 RASMI BEBAS DARI MUFLIS

    Pada 2012, Dr Chee secara rasmi dibebaskan dari muflis dan ini membolehkannya bertanding dalam pilihan raya.

    Tahun lalu, Dr Chee bertanding dalam Pilihan Raya Umum di GRC Holland-Bukit Timah. Dr Chee dan pasukannya bagaimanapun tewas di GRC Holland-Bukit Timah dengan meraih hanya 33 peratus undi.

    Kekalahan demi kekalahan itu nampaknya tidak mengekang Dr Chee daripada terus bertanding.

    “Kami menerimanya, orang ramai membuat keputusan dan hanya yang dapat kita lakukan adalah melihat ke hadapan,” ujar beliau. Nampaknya, Dr Chee tidak mungkin meninggalkan politik dengan segera.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • 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.”

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