Monday, September 19, 2011

Najib Mudah Lupa....

SEBELUM......

Bil 51. Sementelahan itu, kedudukan kewangan yang kukuh adalah penting bagi menjamin kesejahteraan masa depan negara. Bagi mencapai matlamat ini, Kerajaan mencadangkan supaya kadar cukai perkhidmatan dinaikkan hanya satu peratus kepada enam peratus.

Kerajaan percaya langkah kenaikan yang kecil ini tidak membebankan kerana rakyat mempunyai pilihan untuk mendapat perkhidmatan yang tidak dikenakan cukai perkhidmatan.
Malah, nilai jualan tahunan (threshold) bagi perkhidmatan sedia ada masih lagi dikekalkan. Seiring dengan hala tuju ini, Kerajaan juga mencadangkan cukai perkhidmatan dikenakan ke atas perkhidmatan penyiaran TV berbayar.

(Ucapan pembentangan Bajet 15 Oktober 2011 oleh Perdana Menteri yang juga Menteri Kewangan, Datuk Seri Najib Razak.)

SELEPAS...

KUALA LUMPUR 9 Sept. - Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak meminta syarikat telekomunikasi supaya mengkaji semula keputusan mengenakan cukai perkhidmatan sebanyak 6.0 peratus kepada pengguna ke atas produk tambah nilai dan pek permulaan kerana keputusan itu kini dilihat membebankan rakyat.

Najib berkata, keputusan itu yang diambil sendiri oleh syarikat telekomunikasi merupakan satu keputusan yang tidak popular selepas beliau mengambil kira pandangan dan maklum balas daripada pengguna. Menurutnya, fokus utama ketika ini sepatutnya untuk mengurangkan beban rakyat dan bukannya mengambil keputusan untuk menambah beban itu.

(Komen Mengenai Caj 6.0% cukai perkhidmatan oleh Perdana Menteri yang juga Menteri Kewangan, Datuk Seri Najib Razak)

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Teen needs ventilator to go home

Missing home: Shah Fee lying on his bed at Duchess of Kent Hospital in Sandakan, Sabah, yesterday.

SANDAKAN: An ailing 15-year-old Shah Fee Juman is staring out of the window from his hospital bed, longing for his family and wondering when can he return home to be with his six siblings and mother. Immobilized and consequently bedridden, Shah Fee has been connected to a ventilator machine since December last year.

For him to realise his aspirations, as simple as it may sound, to be with his loved ones at the comfort of his home, Shah Fee does not have a choice but to get a ventilator, meaning he would need to fork out a staggering RM40,000. He suffers from severe kypho­scoliosis, a musculo-skeletal disorder which causes chronic under-ventilation of the lungs, and is warded in the Intensive Care Unit of the Duchess of Kent Hospital here.

The once active student of SMK Sukau has had to put his studies on hold because of his condition. Missing home: Shah Fee lying on his bed at Duchess of Kent Hospital in Sandakan, Sabah, yesterday. As if the hardship was not enough of a burden, Shah Fee lost his father last year. Now, his family depends on his aunt who works as a cook in one of the holiday resorts along the Kinabatangan River for financial support.

According to hospital director Dr Zorina Khalid, doctors have been trying to wean him off oxygen so he can breathe through his trachea and a home ventilator which runs on room air. “Shah Fee can only be discharged and head home if he has a home ventilator,” she said. 

His mother Noraini Bikong said she had no means to raise money to buy the home ventilator. “I miss him and his siblings miss him, too, but we have no choice but to pray for help to bring him home,” she said.She hoped Kinabatangan MP Dat­­uk Bung Mokhtar Radin and Sukau State Assemblyman Saddi Abdul Rahman could help Shah Fee return home.

Source: The Star 06 June 2011