SPA AKAN SEMAK REKOD & DITAPIS SECARA DALAM TALIAN SEBELUM PEMOHON DIPANGGIL TEMUDUGA

Ditapis secara dalam talian

Putrajaya 20/12/2012: Mulai Januari depan, semua permohonan memasuki perkhidmatan awam akan ditapis secara dalam talian sebelum calon yang layak dipanggil menduduki peperiksaan dan temu duga.

Melalui cara ini, tempoh pengesahan jawatan kakitangan awam yang sebelum ini mengambil masa tiga tahun akan disingkatkan kepada antara enam bulan hingga setahun.

Pengerusi Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam (SPA), Tan Sri Mahmood Adam, berkata tapisan itu membabitkan 14 perkara termasuk kesahihan kewarganegaraan, sijil kelayakan serta rekod jenayah dan ia dijangka dapat diselesaikan dalam tempoh beberapa jam saja bagi setiap calon.

AIRPORT FULFILS STANDARDS SET BY INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANISATION FOR OPERATIONS – MINISTRY

Airport fulfils standards set by International Civil Aviation Organisation for operations – Ministry

KOTA KINABALU 20/12/2012: The Transport Ministry has refuted a statement by a company that the runway at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA) is unsafe for aircraft landing and take-off as well as other airport operations.

It said that the Department of Civil Aviation, as the authority on airport standards, and airport operator Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad, had confirmed that KKIA fulfilled the standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation for airport operations.

“The KKIA runway is being continuously inspected and found to be in compliance with the standards, as well as ready and safe to be used for aircraft operations,” it said in a statement yesterday.

The ministry said that the Civil Aviation director-general advised the public not to be worried on the safety and security of KKIA.

HIRING BEST BRAINS AS TEACHERS

Hiring best brains as teachers

SEREMBAN 10/11/2012: Teachers may soon be hired directly from the open market to get the best brains teaching in schools, said Education Service Commission chairman Tan Sri Zulkurnain Awang.

Other measures to improve the quality of teaching in schools included immediately retiring those with medical or disciplinary problems.

There are now some 408,000 teachers on the government’s payroll.

Zulkurnain added that the intake of trainee teachers would also be tightened to ensure only the most qualified were hired.

“We also need to address problems of teachers with disciplinary and prolonged medical and mental problems, including de-pression and see how they can be immediately removed from the system,”

ANGKASA NAFI LAPORAN BUMI AKAN BERGELAP SELAMA TIGA HARI

Angkasa Nafi Laporan Bumi Akan Bergelap Selama Tiga Hari

KUALA LUMPUR 10/11/2012: Agensi Angkasa Negara (Angkasa) pada Jumaat menafikan laporan blog dan artikel yang mendakwa bumi akan bergelap selama tiga hari mulai 23 Disember berikutan kedudukan bumi, matahari dan pusat Galaksi (Bima Sakti) akan berada pada kedudukan selari.

LELAKI CURAH RACUN DALAM LOJI RAWATAN AIR

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Lelaki curah racun dalam loji, 3,000 terputus bekalan air

LOJI rawatan air di Simunjan, Sarawak terpaksa ditutup untuk sementara waktu bagi memastikan air yang disalurkan kepada pengguna bebas daripada dicemari racun rumpai.

SIMUNJAN 2/10/2012– Lebih 3,000 penduduk di empat buah kampung, sebuah taman perumahan serta pekan Simunjan disini terputus bekalan air akibat tindakan seorang lelaki berusia 30-an yang bertindak mencurah racun rumpai ke dalam air di loji rawatan air Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) Simunjan semalam.

LHDN TEGAS INDIVIDU PENDAPATAN BAWAH RM5,000 TIDAK DIKENAKAN CUKAI

LHDN Tegas Individu Pendapatan Bawah RM5,000 Tidak Dikenakan Cukai

CYBERJAYA 29/09/2012: Selaras dengan pengumuman penurunan kadar cukai satu mata peratusan, individu yang pendapatan bercukainya di bawah RM5,000 tidak perlu lagi membayar cukai mulai tahun taksiran 2013.

Menjelaskan demikian, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN) Tan Sri Dr Mohd Shukor Mahfar berkata mereka yang berpendapatan bercukai RM5,000 hingga RM20,000 ke atas pula akan menikmati kadar cukai sebanyak dua peratus berbanding tiga peratus sebelum ini.

SPECIAL UNIT ON NCR LAND SOON

Special unit on NCR land soon

KOTA KINABALU September 26, 2012: A special unit, the first of its kind in the country, will be set up soon as part of the Sabah Land and Survey Department’s outreach programme for rural and interior folk in the state.

Dubbed the ‘Unit Pantas NCR’, or Native Customary Rights Fast Unit, it is expected to be officially launched in November.

“We realise the problems faced by the rural and interior folk who have to come to our office to settle land matters, which sometimes take days. It means costs for them to travel all the way from the village to the city. So instead of them coming to us, we will go out and meet them. This will save them a lot of time and money,”

SINDIKET PALSU DOKUMEN KAUT JUTAAN RINGGIT

Sindiket palsu dokumen kaut jutaan ringgit

Kuala Lumpur 2012/09/22: Jabatan Imigresen Negeri Sembilan menumpaskan kegiatan pemalsuan dokumen pekerja asing selepas menyerbu sebuah pejabat di Megan Avenue 1, Jalan Tun Razak, di sini, semalam.

Serbuan jam 4 petang, berdasarkan maklumat seorang lelaki warga Pakistan berusia 24 tahun yang ditahan di Seremban, kelmarin selepas membayar RM17,000 bagi mendapatkan pas pekerja dagang sebagai jurutera di sebuah syarikat di Melaka.

KASTAM TELAH BERSEDIA UNTUK PELAKSANAAN GST

Kastam telah bersedia untuk pelaksanaan GST

TAWAU 19 Sept. - Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia sudah bersedia menguruskan sistem percukaian Cukai Barangan dan Perkhidmatan (GST) sekiranya kerajaan memutuskan untuk melaksanakannya di negara ini.

Ketua Pengarahnya, Datuk Khazali Ahmad berkata, jabatan itu diberi tanggungjawab mentadbir pelaksanaan GST dan sehubungan itu persiapan awal perlu dilakukan.

PERPLEXED OVER ‘COUNTRYLESS’ SABAHANS

Perplexed over ‘countryless’ Sabahans

KOTA KINABALU September 5, 2012: UPKO Citizenship and Security Bureau chief Datuk Donald Peter Mojuntin has urged the National Registration Department (NRD) to consider setting up a special unit to handle citizenship cases involving Sabahans who were born in Brunei before 16 September 1963.

This will smoothen and expedite the processing of citizenship applications from these people by the NRD headquarters, he said.

SPEED UP PROCESSING OF LAND APPLICATIONS – DOMPOK

Speed up processing of land applications – Dompok

KENINGAU July 20, 2012: Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok Dompok requested the state government to speed up the processing of land applications and the issuance of titles to the people to enable them to participate in worthwhile programmes.

“I have discussed with the Chief Minister on land application status.

“The state government fears overlapping applications and it is for that reason that the cultivation of any crop including oil palm is disallowed,” he clarified, adding that the issuance of titles would boost the effort of eradicating poverty and improving the economy of the rural poor.

WOMAN CLAIMS LAND LOST TO LAND AND SURVEY STAFF

Woman claims land lost to Land and Survey staff

KOTA KINABALU June 6, 2012: A 53-year-old Murut Paluan woman of Kampung Tiulon, Sook, yesterday alleged at the Suhakam public inquiry that she lost her ancestral land to three staff of the Land and Survey Department based in Keningau.

Timah Dipal, who was represented by her husband, Yunus Kimin, claimed that she had submitted her application for that piece of land since 1975 which had been passed down to her family by her ancestors.

'TRANSFER BACK SABAH TEACHERS'

'Transfer back Sabah teachers'

Kota Kinabalu May 20, 2012: Teachers should be posted to their states of origin with the aim of raising the standards of education in their own backyard.

Most of the participants especially educators and leaders of Parents and Teachers Associations (PTAs) made this suggestion at a dialogue on the National Education Blueprint 2012 at 1Borneo Hypermall, Saturday.

If adopted, they said the placement of teachers would enhance education performance as well as quality in the respective states as what had been proven in Terengganu.

ILLEGALS SCALE TOWER CRANE IN BID TO EVADE ARREST

Illegals scale tower crane in bid to evade arrest

The six suspected illegal immigrants who stayed put on the crane tower for nearly four hours to avoid arrest yesterday.

KOTA KINABALU May 17, 2012: Six suspected illegal immigrants yesterday scaled a 120-foot tower crane at a construction site near Likas Square in a desperate bid to evade arrest during a raid by an enforcement team from the Immigration Department.

WATER TANKS MAINTAINED BEFORE BODY FOUND

Water tanks maintained before body found

TAWAU May 14, 2012: The nine water tanks at Taman Sri Titingan were maintained before the decomposing body of a man was found inside one of them on Saturday.

Tawau member of parliament Datuk Chua Soon Bui, who contacted the management of the 500 units of the People’s Housing Project (PPR) yesterday,was told that the maintenance people had monitored the water tanks for the  past three days due to water rationing about one week ago.

She was informed that it was normal to make regular monitoring when water supply resumed due to the brown colour of the water in the tanks which was the cause of unclean water.

FAKE DOCUMENTS FOUND ON ILLEGALS IS BECOMING MORE SERIOUS

Fake documents of illegals confiscated

Keningau May 13, 2012: Federal Special Task Force for Sabah and Labuan (FSTF) said they are facing increasing numbers of illegal immigrants having many new kinds of false documents which were confiscated.

FSTF Principal Assistant Secretary (Operation), ACP Abdul Aziz Alwee said the situation is becoming more serious and that cooperation from the public is very much needed in order to handle such problems.

301 PTI DITAHAN DALAM OPS TANDUK

301 PTI ditahan dalam Ops Tanduk

KENINGAU May 13, 2012: Pasukan Petugas Khas Persekutuan (PPKP) bagi Sabah dan Labuan telah memeriksa dan menangkap 301 rakyat asing dalam Ops Tanduk yang dilancarkan di daerah ini selama dua hari, berakhir kelmarin.

Ketua Penolong Setiausaha PPKP, Asisten Komisioner Abdul Aziz Alwee, berkata daripada jumlah itu, 252 ditangkap pada operasi Jumaat dan 51 orang lagi kelmarin.

SEKOLAH, PPD DAPAT AUTONOMI

Sekolah, PPD dapat autonomi

MUAR 05 Mei 2012: Kementerian Pelajaran bercadang memberikan kuasa autonomi kepada sekolah dan Pejabat Pelajaran Daerah (PPD) bagi menentukan hala tuju pendidikan menjadi lebih mantap dan bermutu serta setanding dengan negara maju.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri yang juga Menteri Pelajaran, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin berkata, cadangan itu tidak bermakna kementerian melepaskan tanggungjawab, sebaliknya sedar situasi setiap sekolah dan PPD berbeza selain menghadapi masalah serta keluasan tidak sama.

“Kita merasakan pendekatan itu sesuai bagi menangani masalah dihadapi secara tidak langsung membantu sekolah berkenaan mencapai tahap kecemerlangan yang dikehendaki.

DNA CENTRE FOR SABAH POLICE BY YEAR END

DNA centre for Sabah police by year end

KOTA KINABALU April 19, 2012: Sabah police are expected to have their own DNA centre by the end of this year, said Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib.

Hamza said the centre would be set up in stages at all police headquarters in the country.

“I have not received any instructions from Bukit Aman on the location where the DNA centre would be set up in Sabah.

“If forensic officers had made a visit to Tuaran district, then maybe the centre would be set up there,” he said after visiting Sabah Women and Children’s Hospital in Likas yesterday.

AMARAN LAUT MERAH/RED TIDE DI PERAIRAN PANTAI BARAT SABAH

Amaran Laut Merah di Perairan Sabah (Kota Kinabalu)

Jabatan Perikanan Sabah memaklumkan kejadian Air Merah/Red Tide di perairan laut Pulau Gaya, Teluk Sepanggar, Persisiran Pantai Likas, Yayasan Sabah dan juga lokasi-lokasi yang berhampiran.

Kesemua jenis kerang (tiram, dalus, remis dan lain-lain) beserta ikan palagik (tamban, basung dan lain-lain) adalah tidak selamat dimakan buat sementara waktu. Namun demikian,makanan laut dari laut dalam seperti udang, ketam dan sotong adalah selamat dimakan tetapi insang dan organ dalaman perlu dibuang dan dicuci bersih sebelum dimasak.

sumber : http://www.fishdept.sabah.gov.my/pub-safety3.asp