Author: Nazmi Suhaimi

GPS bloc to support anti-hop Bill

KUCHING: The anti-hopping Bill to be tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on Monday will be supported by the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) bloc. Sibuti MP Lukanisman Awang Sauni said GPS MPs including himself will be participating in the debate. “We expect that this Bill will get full support from Members

When a government goes ‘rogue’

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson, third US president of USA A government of the people, by the people and for the people. These were the words of American president Abraham Lincoln in

English or Malay? Why not both?

This was the topic of the past week. It started with Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang saying that those promoting the use of English over the Malay language are “trapped in a colonial mindset”. “They are behaving like slaves to the former colonial masters despite

Snap GE15 would rock Malaysian politics

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. – James Freeman Clarke, English theologian and author If there is one sentence to describe the state of Malaysia’s politics it would be “neither here, nor there”. What do I mean by that? I think the main

Heralding a new era

The new one is the most beautiful of all; he is so young and pretty. And the old swans bowed their heads before him. – (The Ugly Duckling) Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author Against all headlines in the newsreel in the past weekend, one stood out from the rest. New

In PBB, youths come of age

Youth is not immortality, more than anything, youth is the power to make choices. – Unknown It was in January this year – on the back of a landslide Sarawak State Election win – Gabungan Parti Sarawak’s (GPS) backbone party, the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), made a decision to

Bersatu might just be weakened

This anti-hopping law needs to be enacted but must be limited to MPs, state assemblyman and possibly senators. If it is limited to them and other non-elected representatives are free to change associations or parties, that preserves their human rights. For MPs, the impact of the leap is so great

Early GE15 inevitable

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues. – Bernie Sanders, US senator It

About time we exterminate bullies

What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life? – Lynette Mather, American author. Sarawak medical practitioners are quitting their professions. That statement in itself is shocking. There are many reasons for why this is appalling.

Landmark environment preservation efforts

If we wait for the meek to inherit the earth there won’t be anything left to inherit. – Bob Hunter, Canadian environmentalist This week, the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (DUN) has passed two Bills – namely the Land Code (Amendment) Bill, 2022 and the Forests (Amendment) Bill, 2022. In a