Press Release : PKNS issue 31 Oktober

KENYATAAN AKHBAR

31 OKTOBER 2008

Penubuhan Jawatankuasa Pemilihan untuk perlantikan Pengurus Besar Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS)

Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS) dalam mesyuarat Lembaga Pengarah Rabu lalu, telah mengesahkan keputusan Dato Menteri Besar Selangor untuk melanjutkan tarikh persaraan Timbalan Pengurus Korporat dan Akaun Puan Low Siew Moi selama satu tahun. Dalam mesyuarat yang sama, ahli Lembaga Pengarah juga telah bersetuju supaya Puan Low melaksanakan urusan penanggungan kerja sebagai Pengurus Besar PKNS sehingga Pengurus Besar yang baharu dilantik.

Dalam mesyuarat tersebut, Lembaga Pengarah juga telah berbincang mengenai sambutan yang baik yang telah diterima dari Bumiputera professional di dalam dan di luar PKNS yang menyatakan hasrat mereka untuk memikul jawatan Pengurus Besar perbadanan tersebut. Atas sebab itu, pihak Lembaga Pengarah telah membuat keputusan untuk menubuhkan satu jawatankuasa pemilihan untuk meneliti semua permohonan dan seterusnya menyenaraipendekkan calon-calon terbaik untuk dibawa kepada Lembaga Pengarah dan Menteri Besar selaku Pengerusi PKNS.

Jawatankuasa pemilihan tersebut akan dianggotai oleh Encik Zain Azhari, peguam kanan di syarikat guaman Zain & Co, Datuk Azlan Hashim seorang akauntan bertauliah dan dua ahli Lembaga Pengarah PKNS iaitu Ketua Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri Dato’ Ramli Mahmud dan Pegawai Kewangan Negeri Dato’ Mohd Ariff Ab Rahman.

Buat masa sekarang, Lembaga Pengarah PKNS sedang mempertimbangkan sebanyak 15 permohonan dikalangan Bumiputera professional yang kebanyakkannya mempunyai pengalaman atau kelayakan dalam bidang pembangunan perumahan dan hartanah.

Calon-calon yang telah disenarai-pendek akan dirujuk kepada satu lagi jawatankuasa teknikal yang terdiri daripada ahli-ahli beberapa persatuan yang berkaitan dengan bidang pembangunan perumahan dan hartanah untuk semakan dan pengesahan kejayaan kerjaya mereka.

Proses menemuduga akan bermula Khamis depan dan PKNS dijangka akan mengumumkan keputusan dalam masa sebulan.

Sekretariat Akhbar

Pejabat YAB. Dato’ Menteri Besar Selangor

Dato Seri's Hari Raya Open House

YB Dr Xavier Jayakumar & Isteri

Dr Xavier , Dato Seri, Datin Seri Wan Azizah & Sheila D.

Dato Seri, Datin Seri Wan Azizah & YB Azmin Ali

Dato Seri, Datin Seri Wan Azizah

Security staff at hospital on strike (The STAR, Online)

Sunday October 12, 2008

Story and Photo by CHRISTINA TAN (courtesy THESTAR Online / The STAR pg 8)

KLANG:
Some 140 security personnel at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah (HTAR) here went on strike for 15 hours on Friday over a salary dispute. The 70 personnel who were to report for night shift at 8pm, refused to do so. Langahati Kuwak, 54, a security supervisor, said the company, an outsourcing company with the Health Ministry at HTAR, had not paid their basic salary since June. He said their full salary was about RM800 each. “Our life is in limbo now, I have four school-going children in Semporna, Sabah, and I need to send money home,” he said.



Langahati said they were paid a few times a month, between RM100 and RM200 each time. Unhappy workers: Dr Xavier (second right) speaking to the security personnel who went on strike over salary dispute at the Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Saturday. “But the partial salary that I received is not enough even for myself,” he said.

State Health, Plantation Work­ers, Poverty and Caring Govern­ment committee chairman Dr A. Xavier Jayakumar said he had contacted the director of the security company on the matter. “The company has promised to meet with the hospital director to sort out the matter before Wednesday. “If the company fails to do so, the state government might suggest that the hospital write a recommendation letter to the ministry to terminate the services of the security company,” he said.

Dr Xavier said the delay in paying salaries was a serious matter as hospital security would be at stake with no security officers. Dr Xavier added the state government would investigate claims by some of the personnel that their employer had not made contributions to the Employees Provident Fund and Socso.

Meeting the security personnel at the hospital at 11am yesterday, he told them to get back to work and let the hospital management and state government resolve the problem. HTAR director Dr Ghazali Hasni Md Hassan said the security company started its services at the hospital in June. All the security personnel working at the HTAR were Malay­­sians

Rumah Terbuka MB di SUK

Tan Sri Khalid : SELANGOR TO REVIEW INVESTMENT STRATERGIES

PRESS STATEMENT SELANGOR TO REVIEW INVESTMENT STRATERGIES IN WAKE OF CURRENT ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTIES

The stock markets throughout the world plumetted Monday (Sept 29, 2008) and continue to do so after US lawmakers blocked a US$700 billion bailout which was aimed at saving the financial system from a complete meltdown. While this is an American problem, history has proven the contingent effect of the US economic problem will be spread out throughout the world especially when the current financial crisis could reduce the value of investments on a global scale.

The Selangor state government is alarmed that the Malaysian government has yet to issue any statement on how the country plans to mitigate the contingent effect from the economic storm that is due to come when the equity market continue plummet as the US failed to come out with practical solutions to solve its financial woes. More so, the state government is worried on how the situation will affect the state's economy. Given the strength of the Malaysian's reserve the country would enable to hold its international trade position and weather the effect for the next year but, this is not excuse for complacency.

The state calls on the federal government to establish a professional task force to monitor and safeguard the interest of the business sector in the country with special interest to the small and medium business organizations who are likely to bear the brunt of the economic blow due to the impediment of credit shortage. Failure to do so will create uncertainties and therefore, business organisation may not be able to make the correct and proper decisions.

Following the Hari Raya holidays, the state government will convene a series of discussion with business individuals, groups and NGO to discuss on how the state can appreciate the contingent effect of the US' financial bailout to its economy. At the same time, the state will also need to review its business and business strategies to really understand its investments promotion strategies in order to ensure that the current investors and future investors could be insulated from the impact.

The state also calls on the federal government, who are the custodians of the taxpayers' interests, to educate the rakyat of this situation by issuing a well-researched statement which can explain the impact of the situation in real-time economy. As a parliamentarian for Bandar Tun Razak, the Menteri Besar also expects an explanation from the Prime Minister or the Minister of Finance with regards to the situation.

The state also believes that its timely for the country and the Asian region to appreciate the impact on the capital market considering that the size of a day's trading of the New York stock market is equivalent to the entire size of the economic activities in the US for one year. It is very obvious that there is a dichotomy between real economic market and capital financial trading. The Malaysian government should seek the opinions of its friends in the East Asian group to come out with a plan of action to create reasonable real economic activities with healthy investment flows among each other.

Menteri Besar of Selangor

Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim

MEDIA TWISTS A TALE

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8:30 PM

It is to be made clear that we are most unhappy with the twisted and poltically motivated reporting of NTV7 today.

The police report and press statement made by Dr Xavier today, is only regarding the amount of SNATCH THEFTS (KEJADIAN RAGUT) occuring in Taman Klang Jaya and throughout this constituency. That was the main and only complaint that was put to the OCPD of Klang today.

There was no incident involving a break-in or even an attempt of a break-in. That story was totally fabricated by the media.

PRESS STATEMENT : Sacking of Perak Tengah District Councillor

PRESS STATEMENT
29 September 2008

SACKING OF PERAK TENGAH DISTRICT COUNCILLOR

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (KeADILan) welcomes and fully supports the decision by the Perak state government to sack Perak Tengah district councillor Zul Hassan.

Zul Hassan, who is under probe by ACA, had not only issued a statement confessing to illicit sex, but also justified his action by saying that he was induced into committing the immoral act.

Such a statement makes a mockery of Pakatan Rakyat's pledge towards a government that respects the trust of the people.

The Perak government's swift action shows its seriousness in putting into practice Pakatan Rakyat's commitment to ensure that morality and ethics are upheld by those in public offices and not merely expressed in words.

Towards that end, Zul Hassan will be dealt with by Keadilan's disciplinary committee and will have to explain the remark, when he made comparison of his inability to succumb to temptation to someone who is being offered "sedekah" (charity).

It is important that good conduct comes from the top in order to set an example for the younger generations. As such, we fully back the action taken on Zul Hassan and will support whatever action taken in future as and when there is enough evidence of wrongful conduct.

Once again, we reiterate our uncompromising stand that any wrongdoing by any office holder, without regard to party affiliation or post, should not be tolerated and dealt with severely.

Meanwhile we wish to confirm that Mohammad Imran Abdullah also mentioned in the said scandal is not a member of Keadilan. (End)

DR WAN AZIZAH WAN ISMAIL
President, Parti Keadilan Rakyat

PRESS STATEMENT - Dr Xavier on security issues in Klang.

For Immediate release

MONDAY, 29th September 2008, Outside Balai Polis Klang at 10.00 am.

Kerajaan Selangor amat bimbang dengan peningkatan kejadian jenayah di daerah Klang lebih-lebih lagi di kawasan Taman Sentosa, Taman Seri Andalas, Taman Klang Jaya, Bukit Tinggi dan kawasan persekitaran sejak kebelakangan ini.

Kes ragut dan pecah rumah di waktu siang hari semakin menjadi-jadi dan keadaan ini menyebabkan masyarakat setempat merasa tidak selamat untuk membiarkan anak isteri mereka berada di rumah semasa mereka pergi bekerja.

Keadaan ini juga telah memberi impak negatif terhadap ekonomi negeri disebabkan pelabur-pelabur asing merasa tidak selamat untuk melabur di negeri ini. Keadaan ini juga menghindar pelancung-pelancung dari datang melawat Bandar Diraja ini.

Saya merasa tidak puashati dengan cara pihak Polis untuk mengatasi masaalah kejadian jenayah di daerah ini.

Alasan kekurangan anggota dan kenderaan seringkali digunakan oleh pihak Polis ekoran ketidakupayaannya menangani jenayah di daerah ini.

Pihak Pengurusan Polis Negeri Selangor harus segera mendapatkan peruntukannya di bawah Rancangan Malaysia ke 9 untuk menambahkan lagi anggota-anggotanya dan sokongan logistik.

Pihak Polis seharusnya lebih proaktif dengan kerap mengadakan lebih banyak program komuniti dan penerangan pencegahan jenayah di kawasan setempat.

Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Negeri Selangor tidak mempunyai sebarang masalah untuk bekerjasama dengan pihak Polis bagi mengadakan program-program kemasyarakatan tersebut.

Dr. Xavier Jayakumar
EXCO Kerajaan Negeri Selangor Merangkap ADUN Seri Andalas
Tarikh : ISNIN, 29 September 2008