To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers. – John McDonnell, British politician The issue of foreign workers and low salaries in our state is not going to
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King, civil rights activist These days it’s extremely difficult
When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets … I thought she’d been bitten by a Great Dane. – Woody
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don’t, there are consequences you’ll have to deal with later in life. – Bryan Adams, Canadian guitarist Yesterday was World Diabetes Day (WDB). But how many of us were aware of this? In fact, we can safely say that even
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. – Henry Anatole Grunwald, American journalist The 32nd edition of the Kenyalang Journalism Awards (KJA) last week brought back all the fond memories that I had as a younger journalist. Organised by the Federation of Sarawak
As we now enter what is supposed to be a ‘New Malaysia’ era with a new government in place, has anything changed to make me feel more Malaysian? I wish so, but I doubt it. – Francis Siah, columnist Last week, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba made
We have no choice, if we don’t do it now, after five years automatically the State Legislative Assembly will be dissolved. – Tan Sri Dr James Masing, Deputy Chief Minister I was invited to a Zoom discussion by some friends last week to give my views on whether the Sarawak
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them. – Harvey Mackay, American businessman and author A news portal article caught my eye yesterday. Gamuda Bhd
Thank God we’re living in a country where the sky’s the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television. – Joan Rivers, American comedian Six months ago, sometime in early May, when I received news from a contact in Putrajaya that Sarawak would
If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they’ll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they’ll go drill there. – Woody Harrelson, American actor I have been following the statewide PBB mini-conventions closely. In previous years, the party held one single major convention,