Category: Politics

Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has suggested that the operation of the vaccination centre (PPV) at the Pagoh Multipurpose Hall here be relocated to the Pagoh Sports Complex to provide better comfort to the community.

The Prime Minister voiced out his suggestion to the Muar Health Officer Dr Noorhaida Ujang when inspecting the vaccination operation and facilities provided at the PPV yesterday.

According to Dr Noorhaida, Muhyiddin, who is also the Pagoh Member of Parliament, felt that the facilities at the sports complex were more complete, including having more parking spaces and equipped with air-conditioners.

“The complex is also bigger, has a field and more spaces. So, the prime minister suggested relocating.

“I agree with his suggestion but it needs some time because the complex is under the National Sports Council’s supervision. We need to discuss with their management,” she told Bernama when met after the Prime Minister’s visit.

The Pagoh Multipurpose Hall PPV, which has been operating since June 6, is the second non-health PPV in the Muar district after Dewan Maharani and is capable of administering 700 doses of vaccine jabs a day through the involvement of 50 workers from various government agencies and 20 volunteers.

According to the Johor State COVID-19 Vaccination Report, as of Sunday (June 20), a total of 35,490 people have received the first dose of the vaccine while 15,719 have completed both doses in Muar.

Source: BERNAMA News Agency

FELCRA Berhad (FELCRA) is working closely with the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Minister of Finance Incorporated (MKD) and Rural Development Ministry (KPLB) in carrying out efforts on the National Recovery Plan.

Felcra chairman Yamani Hafez Musa said it was committed to ensuring that the basic needs for its projects’ participants and surrounding communities were given priority.

“This is so that those who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those who have lost their sources of income, can be specifically engaged as well as possible,” he said in a statement today.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced the National Recovery Plan which is believed to be capable of bringing life back to normal by the end of this year, including reconvening Parliament in September or October, which covers four phases involving transition of the Movement Control Order (MCO) phases in stages.

Meanwhile, Felcra Berhad Group chief executive officer Mohd Nazrul Izam Mansor said Felcra helped participants who are struggling due to the pandemic by stages and continuously, starting with the allocation for food baskets amounting to RM500,000 to be distributed to 10,000 participants in 38 Felcra placement areas.

“Collaboration efforts with the authorities for Herd Vaccination Programme initiative have also started in the 38 areas so that 112,337 participants and their family members in rural areas will be vaccinated,” he said .

Throughout the four phases of the National Recovery Plan, Felcra Berhad can be contacted at hotline 1-800-22-5050 or 03-4145 5000.

Source: BERNAMA News Agency

The Home Ministry will review and issue a policy involving foreigners to resolve problems that arise which have an impact on local communities, said Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin.

He said the ministry will discuss with all relevant parties including the Immigration Department, Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM), and National Registration Department on what should be highlighted in the policy.

“There are many complaints from the community here related to foreigners. For example, a housing unit has three rooms that accommodate three families. This causes noise problems.

“Besides, there are also complaints from locals saying that these foreigners are involved with drugs,” he told reporters after a visit to two locations here today, where the Immigration Department inspected nearly 100 foreigners, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cardholders.

Commenting on the UNHCR willingness to share details of its cardholders only on the assurance that the refugees will not be arrested, Hamzah said: “It’s good that they want to share. But if you (UNHCR) set a condition, you are actually not sincere.”

“UNHCR issued the card to them but there is no enforcement. If the card has expired and they (refugees) are still residing here, we do not know how to locate them because UNHCR did not share any details with us,” he said.

Hamzah said the matter could be resolved in a more orderly manner if there is a policy and any disagreements could be avoided.

When asked if the government is ready to consider the use of refugee camps, Hamzah said: “That is one of the suggestions, but I am not so sure what kind of refugee camps because we need to look at the reality, location, infrastructure. All these need to be taken into account (before announcing any policy).

Last week, the Home Ministry had asked the UNHCR for data on its cardholders so that they could be included in the COVID-19 vaccination programme.

At present, there are 178,715 UNHCR cardholders, but there is no further information on where they are located.

Source: BERNAMA News Agency

An accountant here lost RM104,000 after falling victim to a non-existent win cash contest purportedly organised by a popular online shopping platform yesterday.

Negeri Sembilan Commercial Crimes Investigation Department chief Supt Aibee Abd Ghani said the 39-year-old woman reported that, at 2 pm, she received a message on Facebook from a user by the name of ‘Irene Wee’, informing her that she had won a cash prize of SG$1150 or RM3,573 from the contest.

He said the suspect then asked for the numbers of her credit cards which she regularly used to make online purchases on the platform.

“She gave the suspects the numbers of her two credit cards. Later that day, she found out that there was a purchase transaction of RM7,000 using one of her credit cards on the online shopping platform,” he said in a statement here today.

He said, overnight, the victim claimed that the suspect had made several transactions amounting to RM70,000 using her first credit card and RM34,000 using the second card.

Realising that she had been duped and failed to get in touch with the suspect this morning, the victim finally lodged a police report, he said, adding that the case was being investigated under Section 420 of the Penal Code.

Source: BERNAMA News Agency