Thursday, 23 April 2026

Category: Opinion

When time stood still for a while

Last Friday, I attended Hornbill City Toastmasters Club’s installation night cum 25th anniversary celebration in Kuching. I was invited in my capacity as a former

Graduates and their unemployment dilemma

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. –

S’wak’s ‘mission impossible’

I was quite disturbed to read in the newspapers about the use of English to teach Science and Mathematics to Year 1 pupils in Sarawak

Poser over illegitimate longhouse chiefs

Duplication never works for anybody. – Dulquer Salmaan, Indian film actor My encounter with a good friend and former school teacher Penghulu Wilson Alli at

Sarawak autonomy in GPS hands

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. – Ice Cube, American rapper From day

Colonialism rears its ugly head again

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one’s own culture. – Lupita Nyong’o, Kenyan-Mexican actress In Wikipedia, colonialism is defined as “the policy

Shooting of ‘Rajah’ begins tomorrow

At last, the long-awaited shooting of ‘Rajah’, a Hollywood production based on Sir James Brooke, Sarawak’s first white Rajah, will begin soon. Based on a

No more political rhetoric please

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence

Inventively naming kids the Iban way

Have you heard of fancy names such as Helikopta, Engkabang, Bilun and Jipun? These are products of inventive, sometimes humorous Iban parents when it comes